Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Axis Powers

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  1. Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...
    48:34Axis rivalry and the consequences of a French escapeNotable Point
  2. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    2:19:45Why funding alone does not create better radarQ&A
  3. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    1:19:39The proposed effect of an early Axis splitNotable Point
  4. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:32:30Why Axis technology sharing is not enoughQ&A
  5. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:56:03Axis pooled research meets industrial limitsQ&A
  6. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    8:04Why Germany and Italy declared war on AmericaChapter
  7. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:05:42The interpretation that Japan did not expect the Axis declarationsChapter
  8. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:10:36An Axis alliance whose members fought different enemiesNotable Point
  9. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    1:51:21Why waiting did not solve the Axis industrial disadvantageNotable Point
  10. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    2:56:44If the Axis evacuated North Africa in late 1942Q&A
  11. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    7:29:53Capable Italian crews were undermined above ship levelNotable Point
  12. Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...
    32:36Italian readiness, logistics, and the timing of warNotable Point
  13. Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...
    33:57How brinkmanship produced a war no one was ready to fightNotable Point
  14. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    57:38Early merchant losses had cumulative strategic costsNotable Point
  15. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    41:00The largest Allied and Axis logistical failuresQ&A
  16. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    1:35:55Germany's fragmented logistics problem in World War IIQ&A
  17. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    1:25:50Was Japan a technological peer of the United States in 1941?Q&A
  18. A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?
    1:05:31Matsuoka's removal opens a narrow negotiating windowNotable Point
  19. A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?
    1:12:49What an American-Japanese settlement might have containedNotable Point
  20. A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?
    1:43:13How a peaceful Japan changes the wider warChapter
  21. So what happens in the Pacific if Italy stays neutral for WWII?
    1:09:28Why neutral Italy changes the whole warNotable Point
  22. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    47:47Allied delivery problems differed from Axis scarcityNotable Point
  23. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!
    1:20:26The most useful Axis naval technology exchangesQ&A
  24. Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice
    2:05:16Malta fixes Axis attention on the central MediterraneanNotable Point
  25. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    3:32:03Spain in the Axis turns Gibraltar into a battlefrontQ&A
  26. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    1:58:50Industrial capacity limits Axis-victory counterfactualsNotable Point
  27. USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response
    20:42Why Germany needed a short war against stronger coalitionsNotable Point
  28. If not Pearl Harbour?
    1:43:47How closely did Japan coordinate with Germany and Italy?Q&A
  29. Bruships 130: Battleships
    2:16:38What 137 cruisers would mean for British sea powerQ&A
  30. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:06:33How an Axis Sweden would change Baltic operationsQ&A
  31. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    1:12:38Victory preserved more First World War leaders on the Allied sideNotable Point
  32. Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years
    1:23:39Why a long war favoured Allied industrial depthNotable Point
  33. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:01:53Axis forces built teeth without logistical depthNotable Point
  34. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:09:47Taking Malta was not an Axis path to winning the warNotable Point
  35. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:16:40Italy's Axis alignment was constrained by readiness and politicsNotable Point
  36. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    2:48:43How Axis submarine coordination aided British submarinesNotable Point
  37. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    2:49:30Why Axis command could not become unifiedQ&A
  38. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    1:08:58Wolf packs versus the Atlantic escort systemChapter
  39. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    1:42:13One submarine's passage through three Axis naviesTranscript Excerpt
  40. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    2:08:49Molotov's Berlin visit and the proposed Four Power PactChapter
  41. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    2:13:46How Soviet Axis membership could change the warNotable Point
  42. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    2:16:05Could Germany reach North Africa through Turkey and the Middle East?Q&A
  43. Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?
    2:04:18Better fleet AA would provoke enemy adaptationNotable Point
  44. Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?
    43:58Italy's resource shortage mattered more than the ships' braveryNotable Point
  45. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    1:10:06H-class infrastructure and the risk of an Axis political collapseQ&A
  46. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    4:18Why fleet fixes had to begin before the warQ&A
  47. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    1:57:26The worst Axis errors belonged to governments, not uniquely foolish naviesQ&A
  48. Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1941
    10:54Finland's alignment as a constrained strategic choiceChapter
  49. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940
    0:00What naval reform can still achieve in January 1940Chapter
  50. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    34:55How little Germany knew about Pearl HarborQ&A
  51. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    37:04A Swordfish turns an illuminated harbour buoy into a targetNotable Point
  52. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    37:50Charles Lamb's Swordfish escape from Fiat fightersNotable Point
  53. Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)
    48:18The World War II siege's human and material costChapter
  54. Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)
    50:04The Axis price of trying to neutralize MaltaNotable Point
  55. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    57:20Why Spanish entry into the Axis would add wrecks, not sea powerQ&A
  56. Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?
    3:18:40Japan's Axis ties did not close key technology gapsNotable Point
  57. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    1:08:40No Tripartite Pact means a different diplomatic warNotable Point
  58. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    1:14:00Why attrition, not a second Tsushima, is the likely outcomeChapter
  59. Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore
    50:28Axis logistics limited a deeper Indian Ocean thrustQ&A
  60. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:34:42Axis planning underestimated how quickly the Allies adaptedNotable Point
  61. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder
    0:32Why Raeder begins the Axis naval chiefs seriesChapter
  62. Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper
    3:05:16Allied invasions that denied bases to the AxisQ&A
  63. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    3:26:29Why Axis yards constrained a German carrier fleetQ&A
  64. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:34:08Why did Franco not attack Gibraltar during the Second World War?Q&A
  65. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    2:07:34Comparing national performance across two world warsQ&A
  66. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?
    19:31Production cost replaces purchase priceChapter
  67. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:21:26Which Axis power came closest to preparing for a long war?Q&A
  68. Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys
    2:14:47Why dismissing the Italian Navy also distorts Royal Navy historyQ&A
  69. Four Random Books 8: Churchill
    2:33Japanese reporting and Turkey's wartime hedgingNotable Point
  70. How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 3
    34:17Popular memory and Axis capabilityNotable Point
  71. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    1:55:33Redeploying the Pacific fleet through SuezNotable Point
  72. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    16:06A Far Eastern war creates an Axis opportunityChapter
  73. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    50:00Prize-taking and the missing Axis pactNotable Point
  74. Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:33:55Could the Axis have invaded Malta?Q&A