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.
Strategic Silence, Tactical Misinterpretation: How India Stayed Silent During a Key West Asian Crisis
The recent Iran conflict and its uneasy ceasefire will be analysed not just for its scale but for how it shifted perceptions of power,...
URBAN WARFARE: GRAVEYARD OF ARMIES – Part 8
In the preceding part of this series, we examined how missiles, drones, and persistent surveillance convert supply chains into primary targets and transform rear...
Missiles, Drones, and the New Geometry of War: Attrition of Assets and the Collapse of Supply Chains—Part 7
In the earlier parts of this series, we examined terrain, entry corridors, logistics, and the lack of coalition mass as key factors in any...
The Missing Coalition: Why the Absence of NATO Changes Everything—Part 6
In the previous part of this series, we examined logistics as the hidden battlefield that ultimately determines victory or defeat. We saw how supply...
Logistics Under Fire: The Hidden Battlefield That Decides Victory—Part 5
In the previous part of this series, we examined how the eastern flank bordering Pakistan transforms from a theoretical entry corridor into a potential...
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...
