Urban Warfare Project

John Spencer

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.

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Urban Warfare Project

Episodes (114)

May 29th NATO Urban Training Sites
May 1st Defending the City of Razish
Mar 20th Drones and Urban Warfare in Ukraine

Urban Warfare Project

May 29, 2026
59 minutes
46 MB

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 urban terrain, and facilities designed to demonstrate the real effects of weapons on buildings, cover, and urban infrastructure. Spencer and Lyle examine the persistent challenge of balancing scale an...

Urban Warfare Project

NATO Urban Training Sites

John Spencer

00:00 -58:43