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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Reinventing Armour for the Multi-Domain Battlefield

Abstract - Drones, precision munitions, cyber operations, and electronic warfare have not made armoured warfare obsolete; they have made it more demanding. The central...

Regimentation In Modern Warfare: Preserving Tradition, Embracing Change

Military history shows that armies are sustained not merely by weapons, technology, or numerical strength, but by the quality of their soldiers, the character...

Nuremberg, Karma, and the Lessons for Delhi—Power Is Temporary; Accountability Is Not

The historic photograph of the Nuremberg courtroom captures an extraordinary reversal of fortune. Men who had once held positions of immense authority in Nazi...

The Peacock, the Parrot and the Wise Old Tortoise

Once upon a time, in the vast, ancient forest of Bharatvan, a kingdom existed, celebrated throughout the animal world as the largest democracy on...

The Xi–Trump Summit and the Illusion of “Constructive Strategic Stability”

The September 23–25, 2026, state visit by President Xi Jinping to Washington produced pageantry, a two-month extension of the trade truce to January 10,...

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