Urban Warfare Isn't an Alibi | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

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dee takos

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🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Eyes on Geopolitics, Dee and Andy Milburn discuss the complexities of urban warfare, particularly in the context of the Gaza conflict. They explore the high civilian casualty rates, the military decision-making processes, and the ethical implications of targeting practices. The conversation delves into the role of intelligence, the challenges of verifying targets, and the impact of civilian deaths on future conflicts. Andy emphasizes the need for restraint and the consequences of treating civilian casualties as an acceptable cost of military operations.

Andy's article: https://warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza-and-the-conduct-of-urban-war-civilian-harm-risk-and-responsibility/

00:00 — Gaza War Explained
01:17 — Urban Warfare Targeting
03:40 — Civilian Casualties Breakdown
09:27 — Rules of War in Cities
16:03 — Targeting Mistakes & Intel
25:32 — Evacuation Warnings in Gaza
33:40 — Human Shields Explained
40:15 — AI Targeting & Blowback

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:01.1	Welcome to another episode of Eyes on Geopolitics, a special.
0:04.0	And today I'm joined by Andy Milburn. Of course, you know him. All his links are in the description. Check them out there, of course. He's got a great new article that he put out on War on the Rocks. That link is also in the description. So check it out. And basically, I want to do it justice. You know, it's called Gaza and the conduct of urban war
0:23.7	civilian harm risk and responsibility the first line pops out to me you know urban warfare is
0:31.9	often invoked as an alibi dense terrain and embedded enemy, human shields, and perfect intelligence.
0:40.6	You guys, we're going to talk about the article, but please go check it out.
0:43.7	That link is in the description.
0:46.1	Andy, what's up, man?
0:47.8	It's good to see you.
0:48.9	Yeah, good to see you too.
0:50.6	Thanks very much for having me on.
0:52.0	Please, this is your show, too.
1:03.0	So I think, you know, probably the best way of doing this, of course, you're the producer is I can give you just an overview of the article. For those of our audience, I can save, please do read it. But save you that trouble.
1:10.0	By the way, so the article came out in War on the
1:12.7	Rocks yesterday and, you know, I've written, I'm not, I'm not a prolific article writer, but I've,
1:21.3	I've had a number of articles published. I would say just as far as direct feedback, this is, this is solicited more direct feedback than any other article that I have written just in the, you know, the first 24 hours it was out.
1:36.7	It was published in the early bird, which is kind of the circular that goes out every day.
1:48.0	It's not sent out by DOD, but it goes out throughout DOD.
1:53.0	It's produced by, I think it's the military times, and it's a compilation of top, you know,
1:59.0	defense news over the previous 24-hour period.
2:02.2	And it was on that this morning. And yeah, I didn't, you know, honestly, this is a topic, as you know,
2:09.0	that I've been looking at researching for a while. It plays to my background. I'll talk about
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