Complete directory
Explore every watch point in reverse video-date order, then in timestamp order within each video.
A pirate sanctuary just beyond Hong Kong waters exposed the limits of British action and the burden placed on China Station commanders.
From Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 1 ·
Sending highly capable officers, sailors, and ships to the Far East encouraged observers to assume the wider Royal Navy matched what they saw locally.
From Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 1 ·
Royal Navy deployments had to protect British interests while commanders tracked labour unrest, Chinese nationalism, and Soviet advisers in Canton.
From Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 1 ·
The 1926 General Strike prompts a closing explanation of how domestic administration, foreign relations, defence industry, personnel, and science sustain usable military power.
From Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 1 ·
US Coast Guard deployment could make Chinese gunfire appear disproportionate, while leaving the cutters exposed to forceful encounters with larger regional vessels.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
An immediate US-China war is considered unlikely in January 2021, while China's greater attention to long-term planning is treated as a strategic advantage.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The Reagan-era defense buildup is presented as an example of economic stimulus and technological development that did not require a new war.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Quentin Russell's survey links major Mediterranean battles across two millennia, with room for additional coverage of Venetian-Ottoman warfare and the First World War Adriatic.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The Harry DeWolf class's ice-strengthened hull could be an advantage in confrontations involving ramming, despite criticism of its modest gun.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
An allied fleet approached Navarino ready for action while Greek independence still depended on foreign assistance and recognition.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Greek sailors and fireships disrupted an Ottoman-Egyptian plan to recover the islands and squeeze the Peloponnese from land and sea.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The Greek revolt's military crisis, public sympathy abroad, and rivalry among the great powers led to the 1827 Treaty of London.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
One explanation for the Canadian Coast Guard's title connects fishery protection with the need to keep patrol vessels available for Canadian duties.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Vietnamese pilots' combat experience helped Soviet advisers learn how to use their aircraft against American opponents.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A reading from March to the South Atlantic shows how helicopter shortages, darkness, fatigue, and improvised command arrangements shaped 42 Commando's move to Mount Kent.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The Mount Kent plan coordinated infantry, artillery, mortars, and air defense around helicopter availability and terrain that made heavy missile loads impractical at night.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Plans to use Norwegian infrastructure had reduced the independent helicopter-control capacity needed for an operation in the Falklands.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The second Mount Kent attempt depended on loads that delivered a usable fighting force, specialist movement control, and staff intervention to retain scarce helicopters.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
In Nick Vaux's account, Max Hastings secured a helicopter place without the authorization he claimed and later carried a Blowpipe missile toward K Company.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The book offers 42 Commando's perspective on the Falklands campaign, supported by maps and contemporary photographs.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A terse P&O message turned Canberra's delivery of troops into San Carlos Water into an understated passenger-service report.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A Warrior platoon checks a route for roadside bombs before collecting troops under fire during an arrest operation in Al-Amarah.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A BBC crew drives an armored Land Rover through shelled Grozny to find a vantage point near the parliament district.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Continuous danger did not produce continuous fear for Bowen, who remembers brief episodes of terror amid periods when he could work calmly.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Collecting a stranded cameraman and his footage kept the BBC crew in a square that also served as an assembly point for Chechen fighters.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Damage to a bridge disrupted the route into Grozny, and the crew chose an improvised river crossing in its armored Land Rover.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
An airstrike kills a Chechen fighter and damages the BBC crew's armored vehicle; the crew later infers from its recording that cluster bombs were used.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
An Afghanistan satellite-phone anecdote prompts a disagreement over soldiers borrowing journalists' vehicles and the risks to the press.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Harry Patch remembers a precarious pontoon crossing, taped assembly positions, and the limited view of an infantryman at Passchendaele.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A relief in progress contributed to confused German resistance, while a surviving pillbox and approaching prisoners complicated the British advance.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Orders to keep advancing and responsibility for the Lewis gun left Patch unable to help or identify many of the casualties he passed.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Shell holes disrupted formations, but successive objectives and timed artillery lifts organized the advance, with pigeons carrying confirmation to headquarters.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Harry Patch recalled choosing three disabling revolver shots while protecting his Lewis gun, then wondering for years what became of the wounded German.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
They Gave Me a Seafire supplies a pilot's view of HMS Implacable's air group, flight-deck hazards, landing practice, and crowded wartime accommodation.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Descriptions of torn landing gear and a barrier crash explain the concern about bringing Seafires back aboard ship.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The carrier's Norwegian operations combined a reported U-boat sinking with the loss of a Firefly later recovered for a museum.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Crossley's pilots had to move and start their own aircraft with a single battery trolley before flying out to Implacable.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Electrical degaussing reduced Implacable's magnetic signature to protect her against magnetic mines.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Harbour landing practice required pilots to watch the ship's heading as well as the batsman's signals.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Crossley remembered a tough flight-deck party with fierce loyalty to Charles Lamb despite frequent arguments.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
An army batman looks after an officer's personal kit, naval stewards provide shipboard support, and carrier batsmen guide aircraft landings.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Armed naval construction units built Pacific infrastructure while resistance sometimes continued around them.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A personal steward keeps a captain fed during continuous operations and can ask the medical officer to intervene when exhaustion becomes a problem.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The ship's senior petty officer is added to the people who can look after the captain, while the executive officer's responsibility runs down through the crew.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
Personal knowledge helps stewards keep captains fed, and a successful working relationship can continue into a later appointment.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
The executive officer checks whether the chief engineer is coping with the work demanded by the captain.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A warfare specialist and a strong personnel leader can compensate for each other's weaknesses in a ship's command team.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·
A steward's whisky-for-biscuits exchange supplied food an overworked captain would eat during a Middle East deployment.
From Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword ·