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.
Pakistan’s New Command Era: Soft Coup in Pakistan: Military Takes Charge Pushing Aside Political Establishment
Pakistan is once again in the midst of political drama marked by the midnight heist of the jailed PM from a hospital and his...
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...
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Ottawa Comes Calling: Why India and Canada Need Each Other Now
Canada’s simultaneous diplomatic and commercial outreach to India is...
Barack Obama and the Dangerous Rewriting of Jewish History
There are political statements one can dispute. There are...
Russia Extends SSJ-100 Life by Five Years—But There’s More to Come
Russia has authorized an extensive extension of the service...
Jamnagar Calling: Washington Needs India’s Diesel, and Delhi Should Set Its Price
When a US Secretary of State skips the ceremonial...
