{"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":"Helicopter Missions in Mariupol","slug":"helicopter-missions-in-mariupol","published_at":"2024-02-16T11:18:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130/helicopter-missions-in-mariupol","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130","url":"https://urban-warfare-project.castos.com/episodes/helicopter-missions-in-mariupol","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/5de8282033baf4-72953531/1663054/c1e-4on6t4984qsmgd2k-wnv54p7jt6dp-uxd6s5.mp3","summary":"During the 2022 Battle of Mariupol, approximately three thousand Ukrainian defenders, vastly outnumbered by Russian forces, were quickly surrounded in a steel plant with their backs to the Sea of Azov and little hope of anyone coming to their rescue. Running out of ammunition, short of medicine, and with casualties mounting, they were in desperate need of resupply. A bold plan was conceived, which would involve risky helicopter flights to the besieged defenders. In this episode, John Spencer is joined by retired Colonel Liam Collins. Together, they discuss their research in Ukraine and what they learned about these resupply operations during the battle.","meta_description":"During the 2022 Battle of Mariupol, approximately three thousand Ukrainian defenders, vastly outnumbered by Russian forces, were quickly surrounded in a s…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3003,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/urban-warfare-project-102130/episodes/helicopter-missions-in-mariupol/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/helicopter-missions-in-mariupol.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}