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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The Fight for the Two Straits: Hormuz and Bab al‑Mandab, and What It Means for India

The Houthi seizure of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and key islands in the Bab al-Mandab Strait in September 2026 has turned an already volatile...

When the Referee Becomes a Player: India’s Electoral Crisis and the Road Back

The Indian Express’s investigative disclosures about acts of commission and omission within the Election Commission of India (ECI) have punctured the comforting myth of...

BRICS After the New Delhi Summit: India’s Strategic Choice in a Fragmenting World

The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi should not be judged by whether it moved the grouping closer to becoming a cohesive geopolitical or...

India’s Tangled Mirror: How Political Instrumentalisation, Weaponised Crowds and Institutional Decay Trap Democracy?

India has been on a decades-long journey of economic growth and global ambition. Yet alongside soaring GDP figures and polished infrastructure projects, a parallel...

Nuclear Challenges in the Indian Subcontinent

India and Pakistan have lived for decades under the nuclear shadow, yet the central danger has never been the weapons themselves. The deeper problem...

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When the Weapon Fails: Why the Man Behind It Decides War

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Russia’s Su-57 Is Doing Something Bigger Than Building a Fifth-Generation Fighter

Russia’s Su-57 fifth-generation fighter programme is delivering benefits that...

200 MC-21 Aircraft for Aeroflot? Russia’s Aviation Strategy Takes a Major Turn

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