In this episode of MWI’s Urban Warfare Project Podcast, John Spencer is joined by Dr. Daphne Richemond-Barak. She is an assistant professor at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy and heads the international law desk of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism at IDC Herzliya. Most importantly to the podcast, she is the author of the book Underground Warfare and creator of the International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare.
During the recent outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, many of the Israeli strikes targeted Hamas tunnels. That raises a range of important questions. What advantages do subterranean environments lend to combatants? What military challenges do tunnels pose? More broadly, why is underground warfare occurring increasingly frequently? Dr. Richemond-Barak discusses these and other questions about the subterranean dimension of urban warfare.
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Note: This episode was originally released earlier this year.
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