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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Operation Pawan: A Military Victory, A Political Betrayal

"Even in the grave, an Indian politician finds followers — not out of respect, but out of habit." The above is not a cynical statement...

IPKF in Sri Lanka: When Indian Soldiers Became Humanitarians

The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), deployed in Sri Lanka from 1987 to 1990, carried out one of the most complex overseas humanitarian and...

Unfinished Valour: OP PAWAN and the Warriors Who Refused to Die Forgotten

The Winners of Battles, Win this Earth, Those who sacrifice their Lives, Conquer Heavens.                                                             Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder, PVSM, UYSM, YSM, VSM, Retd Subharti...

Reclaiming History: From Hidden Time Capsules to Digital Data Centre

India's civilisational memory, having survived fire, invasion, and colonial erasure, now faces a quieter but more insidious threat: selective amnesia. This forgetfulness stems not...

Why India’s Strategic Future Needs a Military-Driven Technological Strategy, Not Bureaucratic Oversight

India stands at a pivotal point where the merging of multi-domain technologies, artificial intelligence, space assets, and next-generation communication networks will shape how the...

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The MC-21 program in Russia is scheduled to receive...

The Lion’s Granary and the Owl’s School

In the ancient kingdom of Aryavan, beneath the broad...

Why Russia’s Four New Zelenograd-Made Chips Are More Important Than They Look 

In 2026, Russia has expanded the selection of locally...

The Fireflies Beneath the Peepul Tree

In the ancient kingdom of Aryavan, there stood at...