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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Balancing the Gulf: India’s Strategic Dilemma Between the US–Israel Axis and Iran

In geopolitics, the only constant is change. The current turmoil in West Asia highlights this reality more starkly than at any time in recent...

How AI and Quantum Warfare Could Redefine India’s Military Decision Advantage

The character of warfare is undergoing a structural transformation. Artificial Intelligence, autonomous systems, and quantum-enabled technologies are no longer peripheral enablers; they are becoming...

Shock, Martyrdom, and Attrition: Why “Shock and Awe” Risks Becoming a Long War

The logic behind any “shock and awe” campaign is psychological dominance. Overwhelming precision strikes, leadership decapitation, paralysis of ISR grids, and rapid coercive escalation...

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,...

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Russia’s CAD Revolution Takes a New Turn: Domestic Systems Begin Talking to Each Other

The engineering software business in Russia is gradually shifting...

Why Indian Accent Is Always on My Delhi Itinerary

Readers accustomed to my columns on politics, geopolitics, and...

Russia Wants 100+ Baikal Aircraft. But Is There Really a Market for Them?

New projections on the potential demand for the LMS-901...

What Ails India’s Bureaucracy and the Course Correction

India’s bureaucracy was built for a very different age....