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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: What it’s like inside the Hamas tunnels where six hostages were murdered
Description: Maj. (Ret.) John Spencer is an American army veteran who heads the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military’s prestigious West Point Academy in New York State. His books and courses about fighting historic urban and tunnel wars have been widely quoted–he’s even interviewed Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-who name dropped the former combat officer’s research during his speech to Congress in July. The Israel Defence Forces like his work so much, they’ve brought Spencer with them three times inside some of the captured Hamas tunnels under Gaza.
Although Spencer wasn’t present last w...