Lt Col Manoj K Channan
328 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.
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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Europe’s ‘Useful Idiots’: How Complacency Is Blinding EU Energy Policy
To become a propaganda asset for an extremist organisation,...
Russia’s New 2ES9 Could Transform Heavy Freight on the Trans-Siberian Railway
The first prototype of the new 2ES9 mainline freight...
Russia Revives Its Abandoned T-80 Tank? The Bars Mystery Explained
In October 2026, a television report featured a vehicle...
Rotax Has a New Rival: Russia’s 115-HP M105 Engine Gets Certification Milestone
The APD M105 piston engine has been granted a...
