Lt Col Manoj K Channan
318 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.
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, RetdSubharti...
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...
Breaking
PD-14 Engines Keep Arriving as Russia Pushes MC-21 Production Into High Gear
The Russian PD-14 engine is now entering a new...
The Million Dollar Missile Cannot Be the Answer to the Thousand Dollar Drone
For decades, military power was measured by the number...
Lada Azimut: Russia’s BIG New Crossover Finally Goes Into Production
AvtoVAZ has started mass production of a new crossover,...
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...
