Lt Col Manoj K Channan
314 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.
From Hormuz to the Markets: Iran Opens a Financial War the World Can’t Ignore
The five-day pause announced by President Donald Trump now appears less like a diplomatic bridge and more like an unstable ledge. Markets initially cheered...
Drones, Deniability, and the Northeast: Is India Sleepwalking into a Proxy Conflict?
The recent arrest of six Ukrainians and one American by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Mizoram is more than just a routine counterterrorism...
Between Rome and Qom: The Ideological War Behind the Iran Conflict
The confrontation between Iran and the West is often viewed through the lens of nuclear negotiations, economic sanctions, and proxy wars across the Middle...
Nari Shakti: Examining India’s Accountability Crisis in Crimes Against Women
There is an old saying that circulates widely as a quote and meme: “The trees kept voting for the axe, because its handle was...
Remembering the Bravehearts: Honouring the Legacy of Operation PAWAN
Nations are not built merely through economic progress, technological advancement, or institutional strength. They are sustained by memory, by the collective remembrance of those...
Breaking
The Makkah Pact Stalls at the Gate of Tears
Alliances are not tested at signing ceremonies, beneath chandeliers,...
Russia Brings a 360 km/h Rival to India’s Bullet Train Race
A proposal for a new generation of high-speed electric...
British Moral Hypocrisy from India to Israel
Britain lost its empire, but it kept the lectern....
New Tu-214 Emerges in Russia—But This Aircraft Has a Very Different Mission
The revival of Tu-214 production in Kazan has reached...
