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The Second World War accelerated a long imperial transition, while rapid decolonisation left coercive institutions stronger than democratic counterweights in some new states.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Queen Elizabeth's strike-carrier layout and sortie-generation system matter more than simply comparing her air group with the combined aircraft on two American LHDs.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Graf Zeppelin ranks worst as a carrier design, while Shinano's loss reflects unfinished systems and crew familiarity as much as the underlying concept.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
The unsupported claim that Union Pacific 844 reached 140 mph is doubtful because an American world-speed record would probably have been documented.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
The preserved HMAS Vampire offers a surviving route to inspect machinery broadly comparable to that fitted in the Royal Navy's Daring-class destroyers.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Sending Wichita to the Asiatic Fleet would add badly needed heavy firepower while giving Japan another priority capital target in the region.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Late-1950s cruisers with twin automatic six-inch turrets could survive the Falklands and Gulf wars because shore bombardment gives them a role no other British ship could match.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
A 1,000-pound depth charge would increase the lethal damage radius around an imperfect attack and make German submarines more likely to be caught.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Completing a third Renown would not cancel the Admiral class, but it could redirect modernization money and alter the forces sent against Bismarck or to East Asia.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Uneven Rapier performance in the Falklands drove a more effective mobile system, while the fighting also showed the value of dense 40 mm defense at San Carlos.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
A new-condition Vanguard would combine flagship space, dense close-range air defense, and 15-inch gunfire able to support forces across the Falklands.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
A Britain that retained major-fleet status could play a more active East Asian naval role, but operations would still depend on each government's willingness to fund and use the force.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Four Canadian Iroquois-class destroyers would deepen the task force's air-defense screen, with most remaining at sea rather than entering San Carlos Water.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
An autonomous Malayan navy intended to buy time for British help would emphasize destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines, and minelayers.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Two nuclear-powered CVA-01-type carriers entering service in the 1970s could plausibly remain active until replacement in the 2010s.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Keeping Vanguard as a usable reserve ship would require sheltered berthing, continuous maintenance, refits, trained reservists, and annual activation trials.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Losing one or both British carriers would not necessarily end the Falklands campaign because Britain had other hulls and the United States had discussed making a carrier available.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
If Revenge were lost in 1932, treaty replacement rights would probably produce an evolved Nelson or Rodney rather than a wholly new design family.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Matthew Betts's HMS Terror combines plans and service history to explain how a bomb vessel was adapted for warfare and polar exploration.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
If Vanguard survived into 1974, the laying down of the Soviet Kirov could supply the Cold War argument needed to preserve and modernize her.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Disaster relief offers the clearest morally beneficial naval mission, while anti-slavery patrols combined genuine humanitarian effect with strategic and economic self-interest.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Weight savings alone would not make Nelson fast, but a new 1930s derivative with three shafts, modern boilers, and stronger turbines could exceed 28 knots.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Avoiding Gallipoli might change Australian, New Zealand, British, and Turkish political memory more than the war's immediate military outcome.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
In this 2022 comparison, Australia's LHDs and prospective nuclear submarines place the RAN slightly ahead of the RCN, even with Type 26-derived frigates in view.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
Support facilities can be a valuable contribution when a smaller state expects a larger ally to operate in its region during war.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
A retained Vanguard could complement the four reactivated Iowas and support three rotating North Atlantic surface-action groups.
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Common 16-inch ammunition with the Iowa class would be useful, but Vanguard could retain her existing 15-inch battery if modernization funds were scarce.
From Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times ·
January 1940 leaves smaller navies little time to overcome weak industry, shallow strategic depth, and other limits before they are drawn into war.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
A Greek readiness plan shifts supplies, submarine support, and air defenses to Crete before Italian pressure closes the window for preparation.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
The Greek fleet is recast as a sea-denial force using American-built submarines and mines to protect eastern supply routes and constrain Italian logistics.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Even incomplete convoy interdiction forces an opponent to escort and reroute the rest of its traffic.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Greek privately funded warships illustrate strong maritime enthusiasm that could not by itself overcome the country's industrial and financial limits.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
The Dutch prescription prioritizes completing smaller ships, hardening defenses, and shifting any new large-warship order to American yards.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Norway's immediate remedies are continuous exercises, clear rules of engagement, full alert, and maximum readiness for the ships already available.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Australia and Canada can grow into significant minor naval powers during the war, while conquered small navies have little time to correct their weaknesses.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Finland's capable coastal fleet needs more numerous, mobile torpedo boats to reinforce threatened points during the Winter War.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Repeated Russian threats and the absence of British aid narrow Finland's later choices until Germany is the only plausible major-power supporter.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
With war underway, minor powers can no longer rely on slow infrastructure programs; even well-prepared Finland faces the worst strategic geography.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Finland illustrates how national strength can rest on institutions and resolve even when geography leaves a small state exposed to larger authoritarian neighbors.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
A Nordic neutrality pact with combined command could have given Finland maritime access and made aggression against any one Scandinavian state more costly.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Sweden's arms industry and credible military capability made neutrality valuable to the belligerents and dangerous to challenge.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Norway's government failed to issue alerts and mobilization orders after Germany invaded Denmark, leaving the country unprepared for the German attack.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
Greek poverty, Dutch procurement delay, and Finnish isolation show why neutrality offered little safety once the major powers committed to war.
From Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940 ·
The opening defines a hard reform test: identify weaknesses that Japan, Italy, and Germany could still address with the war already under way or approaching.
From Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940 ·
Japan's rising construction totals conceal how heavily Yamato and Musashi constrain earlier naval output.
From Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940 ·
The proposed Japanese program accelerates shipbuilding, converts suitable hulls into carriers, builds escorts, and licenses Sweden's 40 mm Bofors gun.
From Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940 ·
Japan's wider naval remedy couples synthetic fuel and domestic railways with more submarines and small-yard escort production.
From Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940 ·
The Espero convoy illustrates how chronic under-supply forced fast Italian destroyers into vulnerable transport missions.
From Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940 ·