India-Pakistan May 2025 Redux: More on the Mystery at Kirana Hills

Hello from the picturesque Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, dear readers. It’s been a quiet and restful August here, which has been ideal for getting quite a bit of thinking, reading, and writing done.

A representative vista from the last few weeks. (Photo: Ankit Panda)

For this issue, I wanted to turn my attention back to the May 2025 crisis betw …