{"podcast":{"title":"Urban Warfare Project","slug":"urban-warfare-project-102130","podcast_index_feed_id":102130,"rss_url":"https://feeds.castos.com/w470","website_url":"https://mwi.usma.edu","image_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/5de8282033baf4-72953531/images/UWP-podcast-logo.png","author":"John Amble","episode_count":115,"summary":"As the world is increasingly urbanized, military forces must be prepared for cities to become battlefields. The Urban Warfare Project Podcast, from the Modern War Institute at West Point, features insightful discussions with scholars and practitioners as it sets out to explore the unique characteristics of urban warfare.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T16:19:47.378149+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130"},"episode":{"title":"Concrete Hell","slug":"concrete-hell","published_at":"2024-04-12T11:57:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130/concrete-hell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130","url":"https://urban-warfare-project.castos.com/episodes/concrete-hell","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/5de8282033baf4-72953531/1718437/c1e-r2x7hjzo97bgxn0j-8m6wkm2wi8x2-lcz3p6.mp3","summary":"In this episode, guest host Jayson Geroux is joined by retired Lieutenant Colonel Louis DiMarco, a professor of military history at the United States Army Command and General Staff College. Dr. DiMarco is the author of the influential 2012 book Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq. In the conversation, he discusses how he became interested in urban warfare and describes the urban warfare history course he developed and continues to teach at the Command and General Staff College. He also highlights a number of historical urban battles while also noting the themes that have consistently featured throughout urban operations history.","meta_description":"In this episode, guest host Jayson Geroux is joined by retired Lieutenant Colonel Louis DiMarco, a professor of military history at the United States Army…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2204,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/urban-warfare-project-102130/episodes/concrete-hell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130/concrete-hell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}