Lt Col Manoj K Channan
320 Articles
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.
The Fight for the Two Straits: Hormuz and Bab al‑Mandab, and What It Means for India
The Houthi seizure of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and key islands in the Bab al-Mandab Strait in September 2026 has turned an already volatile...
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...
Breaking
Russia Solves a Major Problem in Brain-Inspired AI With a New Memristor
Russia has announced a breakthrough in a key component...
Russia Strikes out Germany’s Liebherr: SJ-100 Gets New Flight Controls
Rosaviatsiya, the Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia, has...
Russian Diesel and the Double Standards of Washington
President Donald Trump’s decision to open the American market...
The Nobel Peace Prize—and the Politics of Morality
The decision to award the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize...
