Lt Col Manoj K Channan

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Lt Col Manoj K Channan (Retd) served in the Indian Army, Armoured Corps, 65 Armoured Regiment, 27 August 83- 07 April 2007. Operational experience in the Indian Army includes Sri Lanka – OP PAWAN, Nagaland and Manipur – OP HIFAZAT, and Bhalra - Bhaderwah, District Doda Jammu and Kashmir, including setting up of a counter-insurgency school – OP RAKSHAK. He regularly contributes to Defence and Security issues in the Financial Express online, Defence and Strategy, Fauji India Magazine and Salute Magazine.*Views are personal.

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When the Referee Becomes a Player: India’s Electoral Crisis and the Road Back

The Indian Express’s investigative disclosures about acts of commission and omission within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have punctured the comforting myth of...

BRICS After the New Delhi Summit: India’s Strategic Choice in a Fragmenting World

The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi should not be judged by whether it moved the grouping closer to becoming a cohesive geopolitical or...

India’s Tangled Mirror: How Political Instrumentalisation, Weaponised Crowds and Institutional Decay Trap Democracy?

India has been on a decades-long journey of economic growth and global ambition. Yet alongside soaring GDP figures and polished infrastructure projects, a parallel...

Nuclear Challenges in the Indian Subcontinent

India and Pakistan have lived for decades under the nuclear shadow, yet the central danger has never been the weapons themselves. The deeper problem...

65 Armoured Regiment: Six Decades of Honour — “Maan ya Mrityu”

The story of the 65 Armoured Regiment begins on 1 September 1966 at Ahmednagar, where it was raised as 65 Cavalry in the wake...

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Su-57 vs. F-16: The One Advantage That Could Decide the Fight Before It Starts

A recent U.S. analysis examined a hypothetical close-range engagement,...

The Flydubai Miracle and the Questions Left Unanswered

A few days after the attempted terrorist attack on...

Certified and Ready—But Where Are Russia’s Tu-214 Aircraft?

The Tu-214 program at the Kazan Aviation Plant appears...