Lt Col Manoj K Channan
322 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.
From Kargil to Operation Sindoor: Pakistan’s Strategic Evolution and the Implications for India
The strategic environment facing India today echoes 1998–99 in unsettling ways, yet it is more complex and dangerous. The period preceding the Kargil conflict...
Mecca Defence Pact: A Hedge Against Uncertainty, Not an Islamic NATO
The Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan Mecca pact is a security arrangement that reflects a Middle East in transition. For India, its significance lies less in the military...
China, India, and Strategic Choice
Often strategic discourse in India revolves around understanding of Chinese power as “expansionist" or "status quo." This is central to understanding how it will...
Ashwini: A Life of Courage, Compassion, and Service
Life is a cycle. Those born into this world must, at the end of their journey, move on to the next. Yet when someone...
The New Servitude: Why India’s Gig Economy Needs the Rule of Law
India stands at a remarkable point in its economic journey. It is the world's fastest-growing major economy, home to one of the largest digital...
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Regimentation In Modern Warfare: Preserving Tradition, Embracing Change
Military history shows that armies are sustained not merely...
Tu-214’s Flight Engineer Could Disappear — Here’s Why It Matters
Russia’s Tu-214 programme is approaching a critical milestone as...
They Fought Over Its Engines, Pilots Hated Its Controls—What Went Wrong With the Tu-204?
The Tupolev Tu-204 was intended to serve as a...
Russia Upgrades Its Biggest Locomotive Factory as a New Generation of Trains Takes Shape
Russia’s Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant (NEVZ), the country’s largest...
