Complete directory
Explore every watch point in reverse video-date order, then in timestamp order within each video.
Changing codes was insufficient when habitual transmissions, repeated phrases, and unnecessary position reports still fed Allied analysis.
From Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments ·
Dutch dispersal and command failures underline why even an imperfect Admiral Phillips was difficult to replace quickly.
From Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments ·
The closing exercise asks viewers to choose one interwar week, one decision-maker, and two books to improve a nation's naval war.
From Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments ·
The series is enjoyable and well suited to film adaptation, but other military science fiction works better for teaching and training exercises.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The opening source critique connects interwar carrier choices to the technical education of officers trained under the Selborne-Fisher system.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
An all-or-nothing bet on immature carrier aviation could waste battleship spending if air-power advocates were right or imperil the fleet if they were wrong.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A short answer says battleships generally performed well in the heavy sea conditions expected in European waters.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The imagined untreatied British carrier lies around the Implacable and Indefatigable generation, not the later Audacious class.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The apparent photographs are modern model-making and digital reconstructions based on the surviving G3 designs.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Selborne distinguishes three groups of engineering officers and explains what the 1902 scheme did - and did not - promise about interchangeability.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The reform answered a widening institutional divide as machinery became essential but engineer officers retained inferior status.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Common education was meant to give future captains enough knowledge to judge specialist advice, not to make every officer an engineer.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The ship's master was a warrant-officer navigation specialist whose expertise gave him real instructional authority over midshipmen.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Selborne was the political First Lord of the Admiralty, not the professional First Sea Lord.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Selborne's background and the breadth of support for common entry challenge the idea that the reform was merely a Fisher-driven revolution.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The older sailing service used Master Gunner as a genuine specialist title for its senior gunnery officer.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A brief aside uses HMS Hood to show how catastrophic loss could wipe out a ship's entire technical complement.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Fisher's technical background and regular dinners with junior officers reveal a reformer who treated conversation, feedback, and new ideas as part of naval training.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Kerr's reputation for accuracy and his cautious investment in submarines show that common entry had the backing of a conservative institutional authority, not only Fisher.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Kerr's rise as a Roman Catholic adds a religious and social dimension to the authority he brought to naval reform.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Fisher's flagship was the late-Victorian Renown, distinct from the later battlecruiser of the same name.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The reform reshaped shore establishments to increase throughput while combining general education, specialist study, and war-course preparation.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The 1913 reopening of Keyham formed part of a hurried training surge as the Royal Navy anticipated war and specialist losses.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The claim that Nelson would fail contemporary entry rules illustrates why common entry also had to widen and modernize the officer pipeline.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A step-by-step outline follows cadets from common entry through college, sea service, examinations, and eventual branch specialization.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Royal Marine detachments could deploy ashore as substantial forces, so capital ships sometimes carried unusually heavy supporting equipment.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The Admiralty required entrants to accept any branch, but some families resisted engineering appointments that seemed to close the route to command.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Aircraft spaces, heavy derricks, planned landing craft, and shipboard engineering skill made landing a vehicle technically plausible.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The officers educated by the scheme became the captains, admirals, and materiel leaders who shaped the Royal Navy of the 1920s through the Second World War.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Evidence from the Douglas Committee shows opposition rooted in misinformation, reform fatigue, and fear that engineers or Marines would compete for command.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Simon Harley and the Dreadnought Project provide specialist research on the people, careers, training, and service backgrounds behind Royal Navy institutions.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A wider commander pool could add motivated specialists and improve talent selection while reducing conventional executive officers' promotion odds.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Jellicoe supported the scheme while Beatty strongly opposed it, drawing a sharp divide between the two admirals.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
No engineer who later became an executive captain or admiral is named from memory, and specialist career research is identified as the next step.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Early graduates reached captain and engineer-captain rank, but almost no common-entry officers chose the Royal Marines, prompting separate entry to return.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Moving specialization earlier did not dismantle Osborne or the shared educational habits created by common entry.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Later institutions preserved the scheme's scientific approach by teaching staff work, tactics, and critical thought across the officer corps.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The conclusion argues that changing who teaches and promotes future officers can shape naval culture longer than any individual shipbuilding decision.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The brief positive judgment treats institutional reform as one of Fisher's strengths.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The answer portrays shipboard Marine artillery as opportunistic and poorly standardized, with a tentative howitzer identification and an apparently unofficial 25-pounder example.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Beatty's disputed professional decisions did not prevent him from being personable, charismatic, and widely liked.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A converted mobile base would add little at D-Day but could be valuable where established support infrastructure was scarce, especially Crete or the Far East.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
Saving the proposed ship would require a near-total structural and machinery reconstruction rather than a modest refit.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A public image meant to display Royal Navy strength visually centers Ark Royal, complicating claims that interwar service culture could imagine power only through battleships.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
A late-1930s exercise paired Ark Royal and Glorious with two battlecruisers in a formation resembling the later Force H.
From Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches ·
The Chatham class introduces an argument that real fleets depend on capable middle-tier warships, not only capital ships and cheap patrol vessels.
From Town Class (1911): Chathams ·
Speed, armour, range, and eight six-inch guns made the Chathams credible against raiders and useful alongside larger warships.
From Town Class (1911): Chathams ·
Chatham's East African deployment locates Königsberg, destroys her supply ship, and helps seal the Rufiji escape route.
From Town Class (1911): Chathams ·