{"podcast":{"title":"The War Office","slug":"the-war-office-7856798","podcast_index_feed_id":7856798,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/68909a8df3a75290d49db79b","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/@TheWarOfficePodcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/68909a8df3a75290d49db79b/1778080307669-efbfb77f-d37b-4317-902e-4daef1205ced.jpeg","author":"The Operations Room","episode_count":12,"summary":"From the team behind The Operations Room comes The War Office Podcast. Each episode deep dives into the most important military history events, battles, and people from the Second World War to the present day. Each episode features dramatic storytelling, expert guest historians, and atmospheric soundscapes. This is frontline detail like you’ve never heard before. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-14T14:18:37.707861+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-war-office-7856798"},"episode":{"title":"Putin's 1st Invasion, The Russo-Georgian War 2008","slug":"putin-s-1st-invasion-the-russo-georgian-war-2008","published_at":"2026-07-14T04:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-war-office-7856798/putin-s-1st-invasion-the-russo-georgian-war-2008","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-war-office-7856798","url":"https://shows.acast.com/history-stories/episodes/6a5514d49fd983917d04de04","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68909a8df3a75290d49db79b/e/6a5514d49fd983917d04de04/media.mp3","summary":"On the 7th of August 2008, Georgian military forces moved into breakaway region of South Ossetia, hoping to capture its capital of Tskhinvali. Under the orders of President Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia launches an offensive to reclaim what it believes is its rightful sovereign territory.  They will have to go through South Ossetia’s small military but a larger threat looms to the north: Russia. The ensuing Russian counterattack in South Ossetia and into Georgia itself will lead to Europe’s first large-scale conflict of the 21st Century and the dawn of a new age of Russian expansionism.  Thanks to: Professor Stephen Jones the founding director of the Program on Georgian Studies at Harvard University and the author of ‘Georgia: A Political History Since Independence  Professor Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the Universities of Michigan and Chicago and author of ‘Forging the Nation: The Making and Faking of Nationalisms’.  You can listen to The War Office on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , Amazon Music , or The War Office Podcast YouTube Channel .  New episodes will be released every Tuesday morning. If you enjoy the episodes, please help us grow the podcast by subscribing, liking, sharing, commenting, and listening to future releases. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"On the 7th of August 2008, Georgian military forces moved into breakaway region of South Ossetia, hoping to capture its capital of Tskhinvali. Under the o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3436,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-war-office-7856798/episodes/putin-s-1st-invasion-the-russo-georgian-war-2008/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-war-office-7856798/putin-s-1st-invasion-the-russo-georgian-war-2008.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}