Urban Warfare Project
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Metrics
Episodes: 116
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 4.8/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
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johnamble@gmail.com
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Host
John Spencer - Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and a former U.S. Army officer with expertise in urban warfare and military operations.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Guy Hazoot - Military Learning Systems, Adapting Tactics During Urban Warfare, Tunnel And Building Operations, Combined Arms, And Transferring Battlefield Lessons.
Asher Katz - Underground Warfare, Tunnel Operations, Subterranean Military Infrastructure, And The Evolution Of Doctrine And Capabilities For Below-ground Combat.
Stuart Lyle - Urban Warfare Training Facilities, NATO Training Sites, Realism And Scale In Military Exercises, And Preparing Forces For High-intensity Urban Combat.
Kevin Black - Urban Combat Training At Razish, Near-peer Threats, Battlefield Surveillance, Defensive Advantages, And Common Attacking-force Errors.
Anthony Tingle - Drones And Urban Warfare In Ukraine, Improvised Air Defense, Shahed Attack Systems, Battlefield Adaptation, And The Combination Of High- And Low-technology Warfare.
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Episodes
Learning at the Speed of Urban Warfare
September 04, 2026
In urban warfare, the enemy, terrain, population, and tactical problem can change faster than a military’s formal lessons-learned process. Armies cannot wait until a campaign ends to study what happened. They must identify what matters, verify it, and move that knowledge across the force while the fighting continues. In this episode, John Spencer is joined by Brigadier General Guy Hazoot, who served as chief learning officer for the Israel Defense Forces Ground Forces during the war against H...
Underground Warfare Reimagined
July 03, 2026
For decades, underground warfare was viewed as a niche military problem. Today, it has become a defining feature of modern conflict. From Hamas's extensive tunnel network beneath Gaza and Hezbollah's underground infrastructure in Lebanon to Iran's hardened missile facilities and the expanding subterranean systems in Ukraine, North Korea, and China, military forces are increasingly using the underground for protection, command and control, logistics, and maneuver. As drones, persistent surveil...
NATO Urban Training Sites
May 29, 2026
In this episode, John Spencer is joined by Stuart Lyle, urban operations research lead at the United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, for a discussion on one of the most overlooked but critical aspects of preparing for future war: urban warfare training facilities. The conversation includes a survey of major urban warfare training centers across NATO member states, including live-fire defensive buildings, subterranean training complexes, trench systems integrated into urba...
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