{"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":"The 2008 Mumbai Attacks","slug":"the-2008-mumbai-attacks","published_at":"2025-12-12T11:00:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130/the-2008-mumbai-attacks","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130","url":"https://urban-warfare-project.castos.com/episodes/the-2008-mumbai-attacks","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/5de8282033baf4-72953531/2285478/c1e-jq1mc5d435ip0w99-47mnq7o1am82-wamyfr.mp3","summary":"On November 26, 2008, ten Pakistan-based members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group infiltrated Mumbai and launched nearly simultaneous attacks on five sites across the city. They paralyzed a metropolis of nearly eighteen million people for more than sixty hours. By the end of the siege, the attackers had killed 174 people and wounded hundreds more. In this episode, John Spencer is joined by retired Colonel Liam Collins to discuss their extensive research into the attacks. Drawing on a firsthand battlefield assessment conducted in Mumbai, including visits to every attack location, they examine how a small terrorist force exploited the density, complexity, and flows of a megacity to overwhelm local security forces and force a national-level response.","meta_description":"On November 26, 2008, ten Pakistan-based members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group infiltrated Mumbai and launched nearly simultaneous attacks on fiv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3228,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/urban-warfare-project-102130/episodes/the-2008-mumbai-attacks/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/the-2008-mumbai-attacks.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}