{"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":"Urban Strongpoints","slug":"urban-strongpoints","published_at":"2024-08-02T13:13:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130/urban-strongpoints","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/urban-warfare-project-102130","url":"https://urban-warfare-project.castos.com/episodes/urban-strongpoints","audio_url":"https://episodes.castos.com/5de8282033baf4-72953531/1797613/c1e-3x06a5dr4gamw5n7-xxvm8ngwcprg-euhfhz.mp3","summary":"A strongpoint is a heavily fortified battle position tied to a natural or reinforcing obstacle. It is used to create an anchor for the defense or to deny the enemy decisive or key terrain. Throughout the history of urban warfare, buildings turned into strongpoints have played an outsized role. Multiweek battles have even been fought over single buildings used by the defender as strongpoints. In this episode, John Spencer is joined by Major Jayson Geroux, an urban warfare historian assigned to the Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre, and Mr. Stuart Lyle, the urban operations research lead for the UK-based Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, to discuss strongpoints on the urban battlefield.","meta_description":"A strongpoint is a heavily fortified battle position tied to a natural or reinforcing obstacle. It is used to create an anchor for the defense or to deny…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3873,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/urban-warfare-project-102130/episodes/urban-strongpoints/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/urban-strongpoints.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}