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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Arc of Fire: Proxies, Air Power, and India’s Strategic Exposure Amid a Widening Middle East War

The confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran has rapidly evolved into a multi-dimensional crisis with regional security implications, including conventional strikes, proxy...

From Shah to Strategic Attrition: Iran, Regime Change, and the Hard-Power Reckoning in West Asia

To understand the present confrontation among Iran, the United States, and Israel, one must begin not with uranium enrichment but with 1953. That year,...

War Beyond the Nuclear Question: Iran, Regime Change, Energy Geopolitics

As time passes, the coordinated Israeli-U.S. strikes on Iran and the initial fog of war lift. The Iranian response is planned and calculated, which...

India at the Pivot: US–China Competition, Strategic Trust, and the Next Phase of the Partnership

In a significant 2026 hearing of the US–China Economic and Security Review Commission, commissioners and expert witnesses discussed a question increasingly vital to American...

The Asymmetry of Commitments in the Indo-US Trade Deal

The Indo-US trade deal has been presented as a landmark sign that India and the United States have finally aligned their economic and strategic...

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Russia Installs Advanced Furnace to Boost Su-57 Production—What It Means  

The commissioning of a new vacuum furnace at the...

Drones, Deniability, and the Northeast: Is India Sleepwalking into a Proxy Conflict?

The recent arrest of six Ukrainians and one American...

Russia’s Microchip Push: MIET Steps In to Build Next-Gen GaN Transistors 

A new agreement between the Moscow Institute of Electronic...

Russia Just Solved a Key Su-57 Production Bottleneck—And It’s Not What You Think

The Yuri Gagarin Aviation Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur is not...