Complete directory
Explore every watch point in reverse video-date order, then in timestamp order within each video.
Warspite would need a permanently dedicated graving dock in a major naval or industrial city rather than Belfast's compact Thames berth.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Discovering an American carrier force near Wake could postpone the Japanese attack long enough for the island to be reinforced.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Rapid obsolescence combined with a huge Sea Slug installation and severe layout compromises to shorten the County class's Royal Navy career.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Graving docks are fixed dry docks cut into the shore, while modern construction docks may use ramps for moving large prefabricated sections.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Reading events and documents forward helps students reconstruct what decision-makers actually knew instead of granting them hindsight.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
A surviving museum ship and vivid individual service stories keep the Town class prominent in public naval memory.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
The captain's prosecution is presented as a political effort to divert attention from failures higher in the Navy.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
A late-Cold-War American battlecruiser could tempt Britain into one prestige surface combatant, probably carrying a name inherited from CVA-01.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Inconsistent shell manufacture, rather than the guns alone, undermined Italian battleship accuracy.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Faster frigate production needs Treasury funding, trained shipbuilders and a workforce pipeline that cannot be created instantly.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
The RAF attacked German warships early, but by the time its mature heavy-bomber force existed the concentrated fleet target had largely vanished.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Fuso and Ise were mobile-war designs intended for an eight-year service horizon, not for the very different conflict they faced decades later.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Four or five Malta-class carriers in the 1970s preserve a large-deck air arm and make the Invincible programme a political choice rather than an obvious replacement.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
The Kiev class became a poor carrier because its design revolved around the deeply limited Yak-38 Forger.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Knowledge of Yamato and the expected timing of war decide whether Britain prefers twelve 16-inch guns or nine 18-inch guns.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
A spring coalition offensive might defeat Russia within six to eight months, while winter could add about half a year.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
Jellicoe's headline regional numbers imply an implausible 48 capital ships, so the likely intended force was closer to 24-27 shared among theatres.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
A navy is in institutional danger when promotion rewards agreement and filters out officers willing to question power.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
A modern electronic-warfare suite has little purpose in an era when fire control is optical and hostile sensors do not yet exist.
From Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11) ·
The opening reframes the title: responsibility for Pearl Harbor may reach beyond Kimmel to civilian and naval leaders who shaped the fleet's position and readiness.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel's father fought at the Battle of Bull Run for the Union, then joined the Confederacy, making him one of only four officers identified as serving both sides.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The wartime fate of Kimmel's son, submarine officer Manning Marius Kimmel, illustrates the operational aggression associated with the family.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel's solid Naval Academy record and global cruise aboard USS Georgia began a career built on steady professional competence rather than classroom brilliance.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel served with the naval force sent to Veracruz during a seven-month U.S. intervention that grew from the Tampico Affair and wider tensions with Mexico.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel briefly served as an aide to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt, giving their later Pearl Harbor relationship a much longer history.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel raised the U.S. battleships attached to the Grand Fleet from poor shooting to one of the fleet's strongest gunnery performances.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel's close attention to training and gunnery shows why command detail can strengthen a fleet, even when critics call it micromanagement.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The video links Kimmel's War College education, fleet exercises, and command of USS New York to his later rise through the U.S. Navy.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel's commands of cruiser forces led to his February 1941 appointment over the U.S. Fleet and Pacific Fleet, replacing Admiral Richardson.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Admiral James O. Richardson believed a fleet held in Hawaii without full readiness could look like a bluff rather than a credible deterrent to Japan.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Chester Nimitz declined the Pacific command before Kimmel accepted it, a succession that shows the risks senior officers saw in the assignment.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel expected a possible air or submarine attack, but the video argues that his decisions should be judged against the incomplete intelligence actually passed to Hawaii.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The cancellation of Fleet Problem 22 illustrates how supply and transport shortages limited the Pacific Fleet's ability to train for war from Hawaii.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel may have tried to keep mobile ships away from Pearl Harbor when fuel and operations allowed, although this remains an inference without documented proof.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Vice Admiral William Pye's belief that Japan would not fight the United States illustrates the institutional confidence Kimmel faced while trying to prepare the Pacific Fleet.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The video weighs Kimmel's training and dispersal efforts against constrained supplies, the advice of air commanders, and no clear warning that Japan's carrier force was approaching.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Kimmel's planned reinforcement of Wake Island shows his preference for an early offensive response, while Admiral Pye judged the carrier risk too great.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The Roberts Commission found Kimmel and Walter Short guilty of errors of judgment, a result the video criticizes for looking down the chain of command more than up it.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
A 1944 Navy court of inquiry judged Kimmel's actions reasonable on the information available and focused criticism on failures to pass warnings, but Forrestal sought a harsher reassessment.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
Edwin Layton's later account is used to explain why Kimmel concentrated scarce reconnaissance toward the southwest rather than expecting the Japanese carrier force from the north.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The conclusion argues that Kimmel made mistakes but should be assessed as a capable commander constrained by resources, intelligence, and a short command before being relieved.
From Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT# ·
The simulated fight sets late British and German pre-dreadnought designs against each other and shows how their gun layouts affect combat.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·
Limits in the game help explain why late pre-dreadnoughts had difficult mixed-calibre batteries and crowded layouts.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·
The simulated matchup separates the damage caused by an individual heavy shell from the cumulative effect of firing more rounds.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·
Rolling at sea and a one-knot speed difference show why a game's labels cannot substitute for historical warship classification.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·
The last British pre-dreadnought shows the transition toward heavier, more standardized capital-ship firepower.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·
A ship built around a gun for every contingency can leave a navy with complicated weapons, supply, and training habits.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·
Repeated simulations show why closing the range could unlock a mixed battery while an artillery duel favored the heavier British reconstruction.
From A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol) ·