Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Alfred von Tirpitz

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  1. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    54:11What Asquith could count as a capital shipChapter
  2. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    56:08Tirpitz's risk fleet and Britain's demand for eightNotable Point
  3. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    23:58A personal ranking of German admiralsQ&A
  4. What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?
    18:29Tirpitz and Holtzendorff as competing strategic modelsChapter
  5. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    1:14:56Tirpitz still leaves German naval leadershipQ&A
  6. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    22:48German coastal-battleship proposals under TirpitzQ&A
  7. Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...
    1:02:17German naval threat perception and the army budgetQ&A
  8. Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...
    1:12:51Germany's response to a larger modern British squadronNotable Point
  9. Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...
    1:40:36Could Germany trade battleships for more battlecruisers?Notable Point
  10. What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?
    1:00:15A qualitative race changes Anglo-German strategyNotable Point
  11. Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?
    5:53From naval cadet to Tirpitz's torpedo circleChapter
  12. Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?
    8:48The Boxer Rebellion as a career opportunityNotable Point
  13. Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?
    25:50Securing the Kaiser's approval after Dogger BankChapter
  14. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:07:42Wilhelm II inherits Britain during the naval raceQ&A
  15. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    53:19Why the German Navy left the BEF crossing aloneNotable Point
  16. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    2:51:47Why Germany's naval staff was less effectiveQ&A
  17. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    2:13Tirpitz's risk fleet lacked a wartime strategyNotable Point
  18. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    9:30Scheer inherited two competing naval visionsNotable Point
  19. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    30:30Risk-fleet policy turned Britain into a rivalNotable Point
  20. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    19:05Torpedo expertise won Scheer Tirpitz's backingChapter
  21. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    1:21:00Scheer was a capable leader more than an original strategistChapter
  22. Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?
    30:15Germany's army might favor restraint, but the Kaiser and navy would notChapter
  23. Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?
    1:04:23A fixed limit helps the Navy Laws but forces German design compromisesChapter
  24. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    1:23:44How a naval defeat might reshape a 1915 peaceNotable Point
  25. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    44:32The battle Germany cannot easily avoidChapter
  26. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    1:03:14Tirpitz and the danger of copying the Royal NavyNotable Point
  27. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    1:12:20Kaiser politics and an early decisive battleChapter
  28. Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?
    27:34British decisions imply only partial knowledge of German ordersNotable Point
  29. Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...
    0:51Tirpitz's deterrent plan and the naval arms raceQ&A
  30. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    3:37:22Tirpitz's alternative Helgoland layout promised a ten-gun broadsideQ&A
  31. Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response
    16:46Leadership losses fragment German capital-ship designNotable Point
  32. A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)
    35:51Contemporaneous views of German naval threatsNotable Point
  33. Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
    6:29Opposing Tirpitz's Risk FleetNotable Point
  34. Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 6
    27:20Presence, prestige, and a balanced designNotable Point
  35. Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 6
    32:34Could Spee's cruisers have served better elsewhere?Notable Point
  36. Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 3
    34:02The fast-battleship alternativeChapter
  37. HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 8
    49:16Holtzendorff and Tirpitz on unrestricted submarine warfareNotable Point
  38. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    4:12The shipbuilding base Germany had lostNotable Point
  39. Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory
    5:48Tirpitz's naval answer after BismarckChapter
  40. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    38:04An alternative leader for the Imperial German NavyQ&A
  41. Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock
    20:51German battlecruisers under naval-law constraintsChapter
  42. Bruships 113: Jutland
    1:43:40How the 'luxury fleet' label can pre-judge the evidenceNotable Point
  43. Building the Fleets for Jutland
    28:11Germany’s fleet programme competed for resourcesChapter
  44. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?
    1:09:29Tirpitz's risk fleet succeeds tactically but fails strategicallyNotable Point
  45. Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?
    2:12:38Tirpitz may fall while militarism survivesNotable Point
  46. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    22:52Why Germany based a cruiser squadron in East AsiaChapter
  47. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)
    26:45Prince Heinrich and an alternative German naval strategyQ&A
  48. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    10:16The Russo-Japanese War and an Anglo-German counterfactualNotable Point
  49. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    23:01Big ships and big guns as deterrenceNotable Point
  50. 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol
    5:26Tirpitz's navy laws make Britain the enemyChapter
  51. 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol
    7:34Tarkin's different methods under army primacyNotable Point
  52. 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol
    9:51Risk-fleet theory and its British assumptionsChapter
  53. Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol
    1:10:37Tirpitz's 1896 memorandum makes Britain the naval enemyChapter
  54. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/4
    5:26Why Tirpitz's risk fleet was a fragile gambleNotable Point
  55. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    0:55Tirpitz’s Risk Fleet had German naval opponentsNotable Point
  56. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    45:33Risk Fleet deterrence versus submarine warChapter
  57. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    42:31Risk-fleet theory and the danger of naval dogmaChapter
  58. A Book or Two to Review (31):
    15:14Testing political promises: glitz or granite?Notable Point
  59. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder
    14:46Fleet tankers amid Raeder's technological conservatismNotable Point
  60. A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War
    7:58Zeppelins, scouting, and German risk theoryChapter
  61. A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War
    13:46Airships as cheap, fast scout-cruiser substitutesNotable Point
  62. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1911
    27:17The risk fleet's strategic signalling paradoxChapter
  63. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-7
    14:04American deterrence and Germany's risk fleet sent different signalsNotable Point
  64. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...
    12:25Roosevelt kept American naval growth from becoming a British rivalryNotable Point
  65. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result
    4:35Why Tirpitz's risk fleet invited a wider arms raceNotable Point
  66. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result
    16:14Deterrence can fail against preconceived national ambitionChapter
  67. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    54:27Did Fisher cause the Anglo-German naval arms race?Q&A
  68. Four Random Books 6: War At Sea
    11:06German navy laws and the cost of capital shipsNotable Point
  69. Four Random Books 6: War At Sea
    11:44Growing battle ranges favour big-gun armamentNotable Point