{"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 Tunnels of Gaza","slug":"the-tunnels-of-gaza","published_at":"2025-10-24T11:33:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130/the-tunnels-of-gaza","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130","url":"https://urban-warfare-project.castos.com/episodes/the-tunnels-of-gaza","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/5de8282033baf4-72953531/2171015/c1e-jq1mc56m0nbp5pz9-okjz5pndcj3v-pzbohc.mp3","summary":"Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, John Spencer has conducted research during seven trips to the country, and has had the opportunity to visit Gaza City. His firsthand experience gives him a deep and nuanced understanding of the vast tunnel network that runs underneath Gaza. In this episode, he shares his observations from this research. He also describes the ways Hamas has employed subterranean spaces to move personnel and materiel, produce and store weapons, hold hostages, and protect leadership. And he explains why he believes the tunnel network has mattered more than the fight above ground over two years of war.","meta_description":"Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, John Spencer has conducted research during seven trips to the country, and has had the opport…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3171,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/urban-warfare-project-102130/episodes/the-tunnels-of-gaza/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-tunnels-of-gaza.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}