# Urban Strongpoints

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Podcast: [Urban Warfare Project](https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130)
Published: 2024-08-02T13:13:11+00:00
Episode link: https://urban-warfare-project.castos.com/episodes/urban-strongpoints
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## Resource

A strongpoint is a heavily fortified battle position tied to a natural or reinforcing obstacle. It is used to create an anchor for the defense or to deny the enemy decisive or key terrain. Throughout the history of urban warfare, buildings turned into strongpoints have played an outsized role. Multiweek battles have even been fought over single buildings used by the defender as strongpoints. In this episode, John Spencer is joined by Major Jayson Geroux, an urban warfare historian assigned to the Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre, and Mr. Stuart Lyle, the urban operations research lead for the UK-based Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, to discuss strongpoints on the urban battlefield.

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