Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Anglo German Naval Arms Race

Also searchable as Anglo German Naval Race.

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  1. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    11:16Fisher reset the battleship and cruiser benchmarksNotable Point
  2. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    19:04Better ships and more ships in the Anglo-German raceNotable Point
  3. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    21:25What ten British battlecruiser slips could have builtNotable Point
  4. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    29:26How an armoured-cruiser race could produce battlecruisersNotable Point
  5. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    37:06Earlier battleship orders and Britain's dreadnought leadChapter
  6. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    42:10Why Germany might sit out the cruiser raceChapter
  7. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    44:44Spare British yard capacity during the naval raceNotable Point
  8. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    47:10Faster Orions and a harder target for the German risk fleetNotable Point
  9. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    56:08Tirpitz's risk fleet and Britain's demand for eightNotable Point
  10. What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?
    1:06:15A wider naval lead and British diplomacy over BelgiumNotable Point
  11. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:20:20Could steady British orders have reduced naval-race alarm?Notable Point
  12. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:25:42How risk-fleet theory was supposed to deter BritainNotable Point
  13. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    1:05:38Making the German naval race financially unsustainableNotable Point
  14. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    1:03:40Germany’s naval race competes with the army’s budgetNotable Point
  15. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:35:12Triple 9.2-inch Invincibles escalate the armored-cruiser raceQ&A
  16. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    33:23Britain had already won the quantitative naval raceNotable Point
  17. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    46:59Why a few exceptional battleships posed a different threatNotable Point
  18. Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI
    33:57Naval arms races and the German army's budget ceilingNotable Point
  19. Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...
    15:59How rising warship costs pressed Germany's naval budgetNotable Point
  20. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    1:10:56How a stronger 1906 programme might have changed the naval raceNotable Point
  21. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    1:23:51What 13.5-inch guns would have changed for DreadnoughtQ&A
  22. Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be
    31:35Rival navies still depend on shared propulsion technologyNotable Point
  23. Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be
    32:30Rising warship costs brought the German Army into the naval raceNotable Point
  24. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    1:20:50Continuous British building keeps Germany from closing the gapNotable Point
  25. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    21:58Army budgets kept the cheap-boat idea aliveNotable Point
  26. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    27:35Army budget pressure closed Germany's naval spending contestNotable Point
  27. Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?
    1:07:42The V25 correction came after the naval race endedNotable Point
  28. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    44:18Naval budgets shaped the light-force balance at JutlandNotable Point
  29. Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun
    35:54Shell defects and shared technology in the naval arms raceNotable Point
  30. 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
  31. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    17:42Why British shipbuilding scale was difficult to matchNotable Point
  32. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    7:49:28Avoiding an Anglo-German naval race in a Wilhelm II counterfactualQ&A
  33. 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
  34. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:07:42Wilhelm II inherits Britain during the naval raceQ&A
  35. #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?
    17:45Early budget cuts and Britain's dreadnought leadNotable Point
  36. #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?
    48:11The dreadnought race was about quality as well as numbersNotable Point
  37. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    33:39Fisher's legacy and a divided Royal NavyNotable Point
  38. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    35:17How Dreadnought design choices shaped the naval raceNotable Point
  39. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:15:05Why Germany lost the dreadnought raceNotable Point
  40. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    13:26Fleet numbers turn naval power into diplomatic confidenceNotable Point
  41. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    28:10Bellerophon was planned before the dreadnought panicChapter
  42. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    1:10:30Britain could not preserve naval primacy on the cheapNotable Point
  43. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    1:14:13Bellerophon mattered without being the fleet's glamour shipChapter
  44. What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?
    42:22Germany's army budget constrained the naval raceNotable Point
  45. Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?
    16:57The conventional anti-British concept of operationsChapter
  46. Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...
    14:44Could a larger Orion-class leap have changed the naval race?Q&A
  47. Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...
    19:53Why German naval power changed Britain's diplomatic alignmentNotable Point
  48. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    30:30Risk-fleet policy turned Britain into a rivalNotable Point
  49. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    45:58Fleet economics behind the Grand Fleet's scaleNotable Point
  50. Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    30:47Why Germany, not Britain, curtailed the dreadnought raceNotable Point
  51. Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?
    0:00The quantitative and qualitative dreadnought racesChapter
  52. 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
  53. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    8:31Qualitative versus quantitative naval competitionNotable Point
  54. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    1:45:36Germany struggles to fund a qualitative responseChapter
  55. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    2:01:42Naval rivalry carried different diplomatic meaningsNotable Point
  56. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    2:09:40A small funding change could end the naval race earlierChapter
  57. Battle of Elli
    17:09Tufnell orders a Greek battleship across national rivalriesNotable Point
  58. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    3:38:10How one German order unlocked four British battleshipsNotable Point
  59. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:28:18Quantity and quality in the prewar naval racesNotable Point
  60. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:59:10A German naval cutback could loosen the EntenteQ&A
  61. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    53:00The qualitative naval race ran on shared technologyNotable Point
  62. Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!
    28:58Dreadnought fleets could become dangerously unbalancedNotable Point
  63. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    35:34Kiel and the Anglo-German naval balanceNotable Point
  64. Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...
    0:51Tirpitz's deterrent plan and the naval arms raceQ&A
  65. For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?
    5:07How budgets shaped the Anglo-German naval raceNotable Point
  66. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    58:50Britain’s battleship building supplies the Nimitz analogyNotable Point
  67. Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!
    28:21Why Germany's dreadnought race was also a budget fightNotable Point
  68. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:08:43British shipbuilding capacity in the dreadnought raceNotable Point
  69. Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:29:32The Anglo-German naval race was not a two-power vacuumNotable Point
  70. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:26:24German triple turrets and Britain's qualitative responseQ&A
  71. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:30:26Germany after Britain answers triple turretsQ&A
  72. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    3:45:00How to build a credible naval counterfactualQ&A
  73. So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 3
    1:12:16Distinguish qualitative from quantitative naval racesNotable Point
  74. Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation
    9:44Why two naval races carried different strategic risksNotable Point
  75. The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War
    22:01How German naval imitation turned an ally into a rivalNotable Point
  76. HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!
    12:46Reading navalism beyond an Anglo-German frameNotable Point
  77. HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!
    15:45The naval race began before DreadnoughtChapter
  78. HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!
    20:43How We Want Eight priced Germany outChapter
  79. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    1:01:13How Austria-Hungary could cool the Anglo-German naval raceQ&A
  80. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    1:26:42Britain answers a German 26-knot battleshipQ&A
  81. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    4:42Germany's options against British 18-inch-gun capacityQ&A
  82. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:23:30Britain's answer to 28-knot German battleshipsQ&A
  83. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    58:15When larger capital-ship classes become more expensiveQ&A
  84. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    2:02:08How German triple turrets could reshape British dreadnoughtsQ&A
  85. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    2:13:53Swapping Austro-Hungarian and German naval positionsQ&A
  86. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    2:31:43Without a German battle fleet, British entry in 1914 becomes less likelyQ&A
  87. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    1:22:09What German coal choices reveal about prewar assumptionsQ&A
  88. Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?
    1:25:54Britain's qualitative challenge mattered more than Germany's numbersNotable Point
  89. Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers
    21:54The prewar naval technology race beyond GermanyNotable Point
  90. Sloops Adaptability of Presence
    25:10Balanced fleets depend on ships below the battle lineChapter
  91. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    53:44Who escalated the Anglo-German gun race?Notable Point
  92. The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response
    1:01:12What drove HMS Dreadnought's technologyQ&A
  93. SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 9
    25:39Could a fast German battle line have strained the Royal Navy?Notable Point
  94. SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 9
    26:45Parsons turbines and the international naval technology networkNotable Point
  95. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    7:14Superfiring development in an interconnected naval raceNotable Point
  96. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    14:36Why Britain chose the 13.5-inch stepChapter
  97. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    46:39Counterfactual: a faster, 14-inch Orion classNotable Point
  98. Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 6
    6:34Fleet expansion tested German shipyardsNotable Point
  99. Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 6
    27:20Presence, prestige, and a balanced designNotable Point
  100. Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion
    11:44The 15-inch gun applied strategic pressure beyond the shipyardNotable Point
  101. Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 5
    44:38British shipbuilding depth helped end the naval raceNotable Point
  102. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    35:06The dreadnought race was wider than Britain and GermanyNotable Point
  103. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    40:17Why Germany moved from 11-inch to 12-inch gunsQ&A
  104. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    42:26How triple-turret Königs could have changed British battleship plansNotable Point
  105. HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 3
    25:32Why the Queen Elizabeth class raised the stakesChapter
  106. HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 3
    30:58Refit economics preserve Britain's qualitative advantageNotable Point
  107. Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat
    1:10:47Spending earlier to shorten the dreadnought raceNotable Point
  108. Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?
    26:03Global commitments and the strategy of the naval raceNotable Point
  109. Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History
    1:38:42Using a documentary sourcebook to study the Anglo-German naval raceChapter
  110. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?
    7:20Britain's naval lead before the Belgium decisionChapter
  111. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?
    14:36When a naval technology race becomes a political grudgeNotable Point
  112. Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?
    20:31Tirpitz turns competition into a threatNotable Point
  113. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    31:24Testing Roosevelt's claimed naval ultimatumNotable Point
  114. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 4
    35:21The pre-1914 naval arms race extended far beyond Britain and GermanyQ&A
  115. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)
    1:07:52Treasury limits differ from shipyard capacity limitsQ&A
  116. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 64
    16:54Why challenge British sea power when it already helps Germany?Q&A
  117. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    1:42:35Plan Z would provoke a larger Allied naval raceQ&A
  118. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 2
    1:44:03Giving Yamato's plans to Britain in 1910Q&A
  119. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    48:42Britain's two-front dreadnought competitionQ&A
  120. Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)
    4:15Disarmament, balance, and deterrenceChapter
  121. Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)
    24:39Why one Dreadnought left Britain's lead catchableNotable Point
  122. A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)
    1:00:31Why naval superiority had to look unmistakableChapter
  123. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    26:22Treaties, deterrence, and visible industrial strengthChapter
  124. British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)
    6:48Why an Anglo-American naval race did not mirror Germany'sNotable Point
  125. Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)
    42:50Why Risk Fleet Theory could not solve Germany's problemNotable Point
  126. Bruships 69: The Decider
    1:06:06Why Britain treated the naval arms race differentlyQ&A
  127. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    46:23Why German naval expansion looked different from American strengthNotable Point
  128. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    2:52:02Is the China-US naval buildup another Anglo-German race?Q&A
  129. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    6:50Why splendid isolation obscures Britain's global diplomacyNotable Point
  130. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    58:09An Anglo-German-Japanese alignment without WilhelmQ&A
  131. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    2:28:58Q&A: why Germany misread Britain in 1914Q&A
  132. Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol
    1:33:18Britain had already won the naval race by 1913Notable Point
  133. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    5:41Why Germany could not outbuild BritainNotable Point
  134. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    3:59:06How a smaller German program could avoid the naval arms raceQ&A
  135. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism
    5:01The eight-dreadnought compromiseNotable Point
  136. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1911
    27:17The risk fleet's strategic signalling paradoxChapter
  137. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1910
    23:38The 1910 dreadnought balance hides another response cycleChapter
  138. Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War
    12:49Why German naval expansion alarmed BritainNotable Point
  139. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    1:19:48Documents behind the Anglo-German naval raceChapter
  140. Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?
    2:04:45Would Britain fight without the Anglo-German naval race?Q&A
  141. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    54:27Did Fisher cause the Anglo-German naval arms race?Q&A
  142. An Introduction to Victorian Naval Diplomacy
    24:57Algeciras: visible sea power and its consequencesNotable Point
  143. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:14:23Following the Anglo-German naval raceChapter
  144. 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:50:25The offer behind Britain's eight-dreadnought programmeNotable Point