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Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount of time in the field on maneuvers. After leaving the Army, he moved back home to northeast Texas and entered the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied history. He also took Army ROTC classes at UT Arlington and upon graduation received a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss in El Paso and took his platoon to the Middle East where he fought in the Gulf War. He got into journalism after Operation Desert Storm and has worked at newspapers and magazines throughout Texas. He joined The Washington Times from the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.

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A drone is seen in the sky seconds before it fired on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. Russia launched a new barrage of missiles and drones in an overnight attack on June 22, 2024, officials in Kyiv said Saturday, damaging energy facilities in Ukraine's southeast and west and injuring at least two workers. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russia shifts to drone warfare as Ukraine counters jets, bombers

Russia is increasingly relying on relatively low-cost drones to suppress Ukrainian air defenses and attack military and civilian targets because Kyiv has successfully denied the Kremlin's bid to control the air space, British military officials said Friday.

June 28, 2024
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., speaks during the House Armed Services Committee on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Rod Lamkey/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Key House Republican presses White House to close troubled Gaza aid pier

The Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is calling on the White House to shut down the Pentagon's floating pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, calling the project designed to deliver vital humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave a "gross waste of taxpayer dollars."

June 27, 2024
U.S. Army soldiers stand at the U.S.-built floating pier Trident backdropped by the coast of the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Pentagon, USAID to conduct IG reviews of troubled Gaza relief operation

U.S. humanitarian relief support for Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip will be the focus of coordinated reviews from the inspectors general of the Defense Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agencies said Thursday in a joint announcement.

June 27, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shake hands for the cameras prior to a meeting in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. NATO on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 appointed Mark Rutte as its next secretary-general, putting the outgoing Dutch prime minister in charge of the world's biggest security organization at a critical time for European security as war rages in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

An alliance under strain turns to a consensus builder in Rutte

Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has a reputation in the Netherlands as a political consensus-builder who regularly rides his bicycle to work from the same home in the Hague where he has lived for the past 30 years. But he is also known as a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of neighboring Ukraine who has pushed his country to increase its military support to Kyiv.

June 26, 2024
Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen outside Sanaa on Jan. 22, 2024. Russia and China on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global shipping. (AP Photo, File)

U.S.-led mission so far fails to stop Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping

Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen are continuing to launch drone and missile strikes on commercial ships operating in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, despite international efforts like the U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian to protect merchant vessels from attack.

June 13, 2024
Soldiers of the NATO enhanced forward presence battalion take part in a military exercise 'Saber Strike 2018' at the Training Range in Pabrade some 38 miles north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, June 11, 2018. The U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative, Estonia’s defense officials said Saturday March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

New report warns Baltic states would be likely target of Russian strike against NATO

A large-scale attack on the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is the most likely scenario if Russia makes a move against NATO, a think tank warns in a new report. The Center for Strategic and International Studies' study comes as the Kremlin expresses increasing fury at U.S. and Western efforts to arm Ukraine.

June 11, 2024