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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live43:30Canning and Castlereagh: visits, forward presence and mobilisationQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live57:07Bringing national-security intelligence togetherQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:50:17Corporate ship sponsorship or regular defence funding?Q&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:51:38Tidal generation and the need for energy storageNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!45:19Replacement indecision can erode the industry needed to build shipsNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:42:44More frigate orders need a credible production timetableNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:44More frigates require a delivery and funding planQ&A
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?13:54Matching Britain's global ambitions to its armed forcesNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?15:50Spending targets and the cost of postponementNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?1:35:57Diego Garcia and the strategic timing of basing decisionsNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?1:41:26Leadership turnover and repeated changes to defence plansChapter
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?1:50:40Rebuilding industry and explaining the need for defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:31Winning parliamentary support for naval fundingQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:58Hardened aircraft shelters and the resources needed to protect airbasesNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:12:04Drone spending within the wider defence budgetNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:09:28Britain’s 1927 cabinet and competing defence choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:42Gas and incendiary plans against a German invasionQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:34Could Britain cooperate with India on amphibious ships?Q&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:44Astute sea trials and the dry-dock bottleneckQ&A
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?1:04CVA-01 cancellation and the advice reaching ministersNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?5:43Cutting both carriers and their proposed alternativeNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?6:58Defence spending and the cost of losing capabilityNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?28:17Sea Harrier capability within procurement constraintsNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:00:29How another Falklands invasion date changes the carrier debateQ&A
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live3:18:23What Type 94 testing says about the CCV programQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)3:56:14Would another First Lord avoid the capital-ship construction pause?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:04:43British jet work may lead without wartime pressureQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:22:40Different national procurement failuresQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:39:54Operation Vegetarian remains a deterrentQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:59British defence commitments and false economiesQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:46Why CCV savings were impossible to estimateQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:30What the hybrid navy budget may actually fundQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:20Why the Diego Garcia negotiations remained hard to readQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:27When procurement analysis substitutes for funded choicesQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:53:31Britain's choice to emphasise maritime powerQ&A
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?41:30Did wars-of-choice thinking begin after the Cold War?Q&A
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?2:38:40British procurement and diplomatic presenceChapter
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?2:39:05Research spending and delayed British equipment ordersNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?2:49:19Retiring Britannia without a replacementNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?3:05:56Why has British defense underinvestment not become a scandal?Q&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:44The uncertainty behind ten-year defence commitmentsQ&A
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age52:25Why future parliaments weaken long-term defence promisesNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:01Near-term spending is the useful test for the planNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?10:31Delayed projects reflect underfunding and political scope creepNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?15:35The 3.5 percent pledge reveals the present spending gapChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?20:08Funding sources expose the plan's procurement assumptionsChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?45:01Norwegian Type 26 frigates remain under national controlChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?49:53Funding wrangling is a possible explanation for the plan's delayQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?52:38CCV, Type 32, and Type 83 are compared as programme signalsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:03:31Munitions spending and Type 45 air-defence upgrades are weighedChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:09:55A July delivery report leaves Parliament little scrutiny timeNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:12:44The contingency is unfunded and the reform fund is smallChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:14:43Resource and capital budgets explain the £298 billion headlineNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:15:56The GDP spending target returns to a 1990s baselineNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:25:29Procurement criteria omit strategic need and combat utilityNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:28:30Growth claims rely on undefined jobs and purchasing rulesChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:34:21Land-based missiles could strengthen Britain's homeland air defenceNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:35:44Ukraine aid is small beside the argued British defence shortfallNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:37:47Maritime receives £18 billion despite Britain's trade dependenceNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:40:07Changing the voting system would leave defence expertise unresolvedQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:00:20Distance makes missile and submarine threats easy to discountQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:02:35Comparison with the 1957 White Paper depends on implementationQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:46:43Britain lacks the railway geography for a hidden mobile deterrentQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:50:45Post-Cold War planning assumed future wars would be optionalQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:54:32Confidence in negotiation can weaken recognition of military threatsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:41:27The discussion distinguishes British dependence from proxy controlQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:47:46Limited consultation helps explain the plan's costing gapsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:52:32The Defence Investment Plan arrived about eighteen months lateNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:08:28The investment plan is judged thinner than previous reviewsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:53:06The plan's own caveat limits every programme promiseNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered15:30The six-year gap ends with five Smith-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:05Why procurement announcements need their supporting infrastructureNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:19Service budgets, procurement authority, and long-term shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:59Treasury authority and the prime minister's First Lord titleNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:50Defence Investment Plan gaps and the time needed to rebuildQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:37The spending estimate behind a larger British forceQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:56Type 83, Type 32, and the risks behind an Anglo-Dutch LHD planQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:16Funding a larger defence program through growth, taxation, and investmentQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:24Why serving officers rarely criticize defence policy in publicNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:03Drones, warship numbers, and the infrastructure a plan requiresQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:34Why fleet recovery needs policy continuity beyond one Defence Investment PlanQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:23Election promises and the cost of cancelling defence programmesNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:08Why Bloodhound is obsolete but domestic missile development still mattersQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:11Defence ambitions have to match the money providedQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?14:13Stored Courageous turrets show Britain's measured rearmament paceNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not11:16Five tests for a defence investment planChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not11:57Indigenous and organic capability give different kinds of independenceNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not25:38Watchkeeper and the cost of procurement churnNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not29:31Satellites and spaceports behind drone warfareNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not33:05A national spaceport authority for long-term launch investmentNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not49:09Wars-of-choice planning left too few auxiliariesNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not58:38Capability criteria before platform detailQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:01:18Navy bonds as a defence-funding instrumentQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:34:13GCAP investment and industrial sovereigntyChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:37:08Joint programmes and accountable service procurementNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:46:52Layered air defence for British basesNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:25:17Set defence requirements before the budget ceilingNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:30:34How short-war nuclear assumptions cut conventional fleetsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:59:37Emergency F-35 software modification as a last resortQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?47:57Why a ministerial resignation can carry political weightNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:42:01What two defence resignations could mean for the UKQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:52:30Why procurement churn sacrifices the cheapest shipsNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?2:05:19Could a standing commission stabilize British procurement?Q&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?2:11:23How the Defence Investment Plan exposed a readiness gapQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?2:15:12What belongs in the defence-spending total?Notable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)9:19CVA-01 leaves a carrier-policy gapChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)13:42NATO's German front wins the budget fightNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)30:52Procurement restraint disguises fixed-wing potentialNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:50British procurement cuts and lost naval careersQ&A
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?19:00Type 83 and the danger of revolutionary promisesNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?54:39The Defence Investment Plan and procurement fundingNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:01:08Delaying warship purchases while the fleet is short of shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:54Type 32 and the Royal Navy readiness problemQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:53Minimum Royal Navy escort and support fleetQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:04How annual budget clawbacks distort defence spendingNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:06Repairing defence procurement before expanding the budgetQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:32Testing ministers through parliamentary committeesNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:16Who answers for Treasury decisions on defence procurement?Notable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:36Why representative government carries responsibility for defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:52What fast-jet readiness labels leave unexplainedNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:13How Ark Royal's name could influence a refit decisionNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:07Type 32 evolution and a larger British defence budgetQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:25Why statutory fleet minimums cannot guarantee usable shipsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:11Britain's economic security and its short and long sea routesNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:00When public attention can force a Royal Navy policy responseQ&A
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?4:13Risk and threat in maritime planningChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?11:00The 1997 defence-spending baselineNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?19:23How Britain's 1997 defence burden compared with NATONotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?25:34Ministerial churn and procurement indecisionNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?30:15Defence expertise and public debateNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?34:511998 commitments and shrinking capabilityChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?47:44The 1998 shift from open-ocean warfare to the littoralChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:04:14Expanding the 2003 mission area without matching enablersNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:17:12Funding unexpected operations without hollowing out the fleetNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:21:11Why the 2010 promise to do more with less failedNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:23:43The 2010 carrier conversion plan and the Harrier gapChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:27:10The 2010 deterrent cuts and the disarmament claimNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:31:25The 2010 military covenant and repeated promises of supportNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:32:46Reading the Future Force 2020 readiness tiersChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:41:08When dependency became part of Future Force 2020Notable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:45:11The 2010 force-planning assumptionsNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:02:56Force 2025 and the depth behind amphibious operationsChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:05:04Reserve brigades as part of a sustainable deployment cycleNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:11:36When the 2015 risk register did not match the forceNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:17:11The 2015 review tied prosperity to sea lanes while accepting capability gapsChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:22:21The 2021 growth promises sat a decade awayNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:28:29The 2021 warning against retiring proven capability for promisesNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:31:14What the 2021 threat diagram fails to explainNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:33:40China in the 2021 strategic contextNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:35:13Hypersonic missiles were a known procurement problemNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:58:44The Russia-Ukraine war in the 2025 reviewNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:59:34The 2025 review still depended on future funding decisionsChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:01:13Helicopter orders and the number of deployable squadronsNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:03:16Pandemic supply chains and the proposed defence dividendNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:07:39Planning the post-Dreadnought deterrent across six ParliamentsNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:21:29The specialized capability of the Royal Fleet AuxiliaryNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:30:51Procurement cycle targets and the integrated-force promiseNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:33:21Risk-first procurement and accountabilityChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:37:18Blaming the EU and Treasury for undelivered promisesNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:41Defending stationary warships at BahrainQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:53The political impact of losing British ships at BahrainQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:48Why six Type 31 frigates would still be too fewQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:23Why a more capable helicopter still moves one load at a timeNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start12:56Why even flagship carriers remain politically vulnerableQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:03:31How the Admiralty controlled Royal Navy building plansQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:04The Royal Marines' missing amphibious liftQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:47Why the Ministry of Defence needs capacity more than a sudden trillionQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:42Wedgetail order size and delivery problemsNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:47Linking British ground air defence to Aster productionNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:05Military pay, retention and recruitment contractsNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:03Using service experience to plan defence procurementNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:40:12Testing procurement promises against missed milestonesNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:28Britain's defence weaknesses and the Norway analogyQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:44Rebuilding Britain's defence debate after the peace dividendChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII9:23Why ending the Ten-Year Rule did not immediately expand shipbuildingNotable Point
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:40Britain's defence ambitions outrun the funded forceQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:17:05Shipyard employment and the SNP's influence on naval procurementQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:29:26Whether sustained advocacy can produce British naval reformQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:30:07Rebuilding British forces by completing the formations already plannedQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics3:55Which capabilities should survive a peace dividend?Notable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:02:34What Ajax reveals about defence procurement failureQ&A
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:00:17From wars of choice to uncertain force projectionChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War2:32:25How higher defence spending reaches the public financesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:25:33Sea power, expeditionary troops, and British force structureNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust7:52:19Political commitment in a Blue Streak survival counterfactualQ&A
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy0:35How prewar planning delayed the BarracudaChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?46:43Interwar closures reduced Britain's wartime shipbuilding workforceNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:14:36Britain prioritizes the Navy in the Cold WarQ&A
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...0:00Britain's real dreadnought advantage was industrial capacityChapter
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?2:14:34How the Falklands restored British military prestigeQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:15Why Britain would buy twelve F-35AsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:34F-35A nuclear certification versus OCU valueQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22:51Britain remains the Gulf's external security guarantorQ&A
- Britains Obsession with Supersonic Harriers30:01V/STOL funding survived governments that cut other researchNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:07Could Britain return to NATO nuclear sharing with B61 bombs?Q&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:34Would nuclear sharing provide a controlled tactical response?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:11Why diplomacy and defence should remain distinct institutionsQ&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership15:50MacDonald, Henderson, and peace with cheaper defenceChapter
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?2:58:28Were the Tiger-class cruisers victims of naval treaties?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:03What was lost when Britain unified defence ministries?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:48:59Why Britain is unlikely to navalize TempestQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:59A labour and industrial case for CVA-01Q&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:09Fort Victoria and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary support gapQ&A
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?5:39Pay is the foundation of recruitment and retentionChapter
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?36:11Capability recovery takes longer than the political headlineNotable Point
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?2:07:49Allied procurement still requires independent operating capacityNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!32:29Nimrod MRA4 and Britain's maritime-patrol gapQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!34:15Treasury control and short-term defence savingsNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:04:38Why the Queen Elizabeth class adopted STOVLQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:07:34Hawkeye and Wedgetail in British carrier fundingNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:44How NATO priorities reshaped British force structureNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live3:29:17Queen Elizabeth carriers lacked their planned LHD partnersNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:28Where a UK defense uplift could deliver fastestQ&A
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:02:00The Falklands analogy separates political will from capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:41A strategically autonomous Cold War Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:15:35A naval-first plan for higher British defence spendingQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...50:14Rebuilding forces after the armed services vanishQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership48:02The political coalition the Royal Navy needed for CVA-01Q&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:30:52CVA-01 was feasible until politics changedQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:23:37Why Britain prioritized the Army of the RhineQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:45:07What Britain should fix first if defense spending rises sharplyQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:00:02Project continuity matters more than a fixed GDP targetQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:59:57How Scharnhorst's label shaped British carrier spendingNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...4:31Fighters and missiles in layered air defenceNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...13:20CVA-01 and the politics of inter-service compromiseChapter
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...54:53Carriers for a European and global BritainChapter
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...1:01:29Defence spending as national insuranceNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...1:24:35Why diplomacy still needs material powerNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax41:39The interservice politics behind the Queen Elizabeth carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:24:38Why unified defense administration should not erase service educationQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:08:16Carrier vulnerability depends on the task group and scenarioQ&A
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 12:25:26CV(A)-01 and the cost of abandoning a distinctive NATO roleNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:04:53British defence cuts and the emergency-procurement cycleQ&A
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:35:45Ark Royal adapted from fleet carrier duties to helicopter assaultChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:38:50Carrier cuts exchanged immediate readiness for promised future capabilityChapter
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:04:04East of Suez was not chiefly about avoiding VietnamQ&A
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s0:58Using alternate history to examine real decisionsChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s7:30Three ways Britain could work within the naval treatiesChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s34:16National Shipbuilders Security and the loss of naval yardsNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s36:01Shipbuilding capacity as rearmament insuranceNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:04:44Defence infrastructure as employment and social policyNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:17:09Why early investment compoundsNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:41:41Debt policy and the limits of the ten-year ruleNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:31:43Britain's defence industry needed consistent plansQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:57:40Bomber-first policy left the Air Ministry correcting courseQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?21:40Could a Buccaneer S.3 tanker survive into the 2010s?Q&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?22:15TSR-2, CVA-01, and British global powerQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?47:45Malta, CVA-01, and carrier replacement timingQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:40:53Why Britain did not widely adopt coastal missile batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:51:28Could postwar Britain afford more carriers?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more34:49A common V/STOL flight-deck fleet for BritainNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more39:58Uncrewed AEW and procurement between peace and warNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!12:01National service and naval training limitsQ&A
- Musings on Procurement4:49Industrial politics shaping defence choicesNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement13:20Choosing what a national defence industry must preserveNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement59:54Giving procurement programs time to workNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:22:06How Scottish oil could reshape British war powerQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:40:09Naval treaty policy was a cross-party choiceQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:19:19Funding, housing, and local reserves are central Royal Navy needsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:15:55Recruitment shortfalls reflect policy and career conditionsQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle10:20Britain's 1939 threat picture put Japan firstNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle13:39Fleet expansion also served British industrial recoveryNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:24:24Who owns the mismatch in British defence procurement?Notable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:27:22What makes a procurement reform announcement credible?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:33:14Why Queen Elizabeth-class carriers lack catapultsQ&A
- Trident Fails to Fly3:31Australian fleet plans and British procurement choicesChapter
- Trident Fails to Fly5:20Press framing and deterrence credibilityNotable Point
- Trident Fails to Fly5:48Britain's nuclear and conventional deterrence imbalanceChapter
- Trident Fails to Fly10:50From sea blindness to defence blindnessNotable Point
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...44:49CVA-01 cancellation and the Harrier substituteChapter
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...49:35The short-war assumption behind Britain's carrier gapChapter
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals15:16Defence commitments fail when funding authority is dividedNotable Point
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals16:49A joint F-35 force shaped by squadron identityNotable Point
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals46:24Failed deterrence made the Falklands War more costlyNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books39:17Who owns British defence spending decisionsNotable Point
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:38:19Britain's two hard choices in the Suez CrisisQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:21:38Would a peace-minded British government accelerate ships?Q&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat48:19Why Violet Friend was politically too ambitiousQ&A
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore0:40Electoral short-termism can hollow out imperial strategyNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore28:32British electoral politics constrained Singapore fundingChapter
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:16:04Churchill's deterrence case contradicted itselfNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:33:40Spending delays and the limits of a funding explanationNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 433:46Fleet names, invasion fears, and home defenceNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!47:45What a Phantom-capable carrier force signals for TSR-2Q&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!51:19Why a better missile would not necessarily save the carriersQ&A
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 410:40Global ambitions, budget pressure, and a broken substituteChapter
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 441:49The lost force and the deterrence that is hard to seeNotable Point
- The Landship Story0:26Why the Landship Committee could produce resultsNotable Point
- The Landship Story6:17Morris Hankey routes Swinton's idea to the right peopleChapter
- The Landship Story18:54Churchill used Admiralty resources to support the ArmyNotable Point
- The Landship Story29:39Secrecy and Hatfield House protected the landship trialsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:03:19Defence industry survives through political geographyNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:09:42British suspicion of armies and preference for naval fundingNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:27:46The Far East shaped British rearmament before 1939Notable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction43:48Carriers and the danger of robbing one serviceNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane32:11Postwar debt and British naval retrenchmentQ&A
- The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?30:43Why interwar air-power arguments missed naval needsChapter
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:38:10The F-35 shortfall is a procurement choiceNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:51:08The case for a nuclear CVA-01Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:19:59How a Gallipoli victory could reshape Churchill's interwar policyNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build3:08:21Making the case for a deployable British ArmyNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build3:32:30First-rate forces depend on the comparisonNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:18Commonwealth trade and American interestsQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:50:38Anglo-American naval treaties as non-zero-sum politicsChapter
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat4:07:25Postwar Britain was broke on a very large scaleNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:25:50Checking a claim about British defence spendingQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video52:33The Falklands crisis as a cross-government failureQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:04:37If Prince Philip became First Sea LordQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:21:34Why Britain retains its veto over arms for ArgentinaQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:28:41Will Britain build a national flagship?Q&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:49:35Why carrier drydocks lose political funding battlesQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:07:44The political threshold for nuclear British carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:53:14What a larger East-of-Suez Royal Navy might doQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:04:07Why carrier losses would harden British Falklands resolveQ&A
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.39:05Singapore exposed the cost of incomplete investmentChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.39:47The 1934 naval estimates contained a serious case for disarmamentChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.43:36Disarmament failed when threats did not share British assumptionsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)10:11Britain cannot choose between its sword and shieldNotable Point
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)33:42Interwar optimism became a readiness riskChapter
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)43:05Threat forecasts, the Ten Year Rule, and neglected basesChapter
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:35:11Could Malta have been better fortified before World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet20:21How to approach Sharkey Ward's critique of defence politicsQ&A
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)42:31Why Surrey and Northumberland were cancelledChapter
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)47:19Party stereotypes and recurring defence cutsNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)53:46The danger of building forces for only a short warNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:27:32How nuclear propulsion could change CVA-01 politicsQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney30:56Q&A: can British warships be built abroad?Q&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books6:46The British way of war as strategyChapter
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:20:24The cost of insisting on uniquely British defence designsQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat29:24Carrier aviation, amphibious lift, and defence choicesQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:44:50Defence affordability is a government choiceQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:49:19British defence spending and the NATO central frontNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions2:53:15Postwar Britain: constrained choices, not simple bankruptcyNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:07:29Funding cuts held the Audacious class to two carriersQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:31:51Match public institutions to the problem they must solveNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)36:42Blue Streak, Polaris, and Britain's deterrent choiceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:01:39London II and the timing problem in rearmamentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:15:08How stronger finances could change Britain's Cold War roleQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)4:12:42The 1957 Defence White Paper's short-war assumptionQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:01Reading the 1966 White Paper as a budget decisionChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper7:21What a British Defence White Paper representsQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper24:23What a higher British defence share would have to fundQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper28:14British strategy when the United States looks inwardQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper40:29Testing Healey's claim of runaway defence costsChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper1:21:07The problem with cutting commitments overseasChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper1:42:52The 2021 force-structure risks that echo 1966Q&A
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper2:04Defence spending as a political priorityChapter
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper9:33A financial review in defence languageNotable Point
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper12:17Air reinforcement in the surface-to-air missile ageNotable Point
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper14:31Imported equipment and deferred integration costsNotable Point
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper16:35Retreat from overseas bases and commitmentsChapter
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper18:19Allied cooperation as a war-planning assumptionNotable Point
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper25:20Civil-military friction over carrier cancellationNotable Point
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper41:11TSR-2 cancellation as a national capability lossNotable Point
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper43:45Defence spending between security and prosperityChapter
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper53:39The Beeching analogy and capability recoveryNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions13:03R-class procurement politicsQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19418:12Singapore defenses and the Malayan air shortfallChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19418:12Singapore's deliberate restraint and landward coastal gunsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19419:30Commonwealth burden-sharing and the Singapore bastionNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194112:31Boulton Paul Defiant production and Far East fighter shortagesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194113:33Carrier construction pause and Far East consequencesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks11:00Matilda stretch potential procurement lessonNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks13:44Best-fit procurement and modern warshipsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks16:17Procurement balance and the Warrior-Ajax comparisonNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks17:58British tank portfolio and procurement resilienceNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z6:33Churchill and the carrier construction pauseNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism2:47Churchill's turn toward navalismChapter
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”23:29Why strategic bombing displaced maritime patrolChapter
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”39:53Why Coastal Command was formed in 1936Chapter
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices27:48Defence policy when no good choice existsChapter
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:40:45Would governments have sold off mature Malta carriers?Q&A
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)13:13Naval estimates and the We Want Eight campaignChapter
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)1:59:54Service strategy, procurement, and the British Army's caseNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:20:54How trade treaties could reshape post-Brexit defence procurementQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from10:53How the abdication crisis diverted British attentionNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from38:22Britain needed an integrated defence staffNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World25:03Defence spending as a political choiceChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World32:01Fleet cuts after the Nott ReviewChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World35:52A case for longer-term procurement decisionsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World47:47Domestic politics in strategic decision-makingNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)15:34Capability gaps outlive the governments that create themNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)20:43Could defence constituencies act as a parliamentary bloc?Notable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)35:28National systems behind military powerChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)39:33Police, health, justice, and research behind defenceChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed1:49Keith Speed's break with the 1981 defence reviewChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed4:03Britain's standing-army tradition and the BAOR bargainNotable Point
- Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s7:10Policing, deterrence, and insurance in British strategyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s8:08The interwar argument over defence as insuranceNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 2: Debate1:13Why the Naval Defence Act was a political breakChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 2: Debate34:40Strategy gives procurement decisions their purposeNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:13:13Small nuclear weapons and British concerns over custodyNotable Point
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"16:31Royal Navy carrier power before the late-1960s declineChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"42:22CVA-01 was more than an affordability questionQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"56:50Heavy bombers and carrier groups met different needsQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:06:54Why the modern Royal Navy has fewer carriersQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay2:14:40The 2020 proposal to grow Royal Navy escort numbersNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War2:05:39Oswyn Murray and Admiralty administrationChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:52:06The Far East war and the limits of 'betrayal' narrativesQ&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1316:21Labour, disarmament, and British naval interestsNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1317:54Ramsay MacDonald: pacifism and preparednessNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:14:28Why defence spending loses to visible prioritiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:25:01The Falklands warning chain behind the Ark Royal mythNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: UK Tank Force0:13The cost of scrapping Britain's tank forceNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: UK Tank Force1:32Keeping a reserve tank force credibleChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A26:56Why defence is treated as a lower political priorityQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A32:40What a usable British defence budget requiresQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:30Institutional memory is a naval capabilityChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:02:21The D-class anti-aircraft conversion war interruptedNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:33:42Reserves as a hedge against readiness gapsChapter
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…15:27Alliance obligations need deployable forceNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…21:41Ministerial turnover weakens defence continuityChapter
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…25:06Carrier procurement outlasts successive ministersNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…28:47Continuity gives the Treasury institutional powerNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…29:42A case for sustained tenure in critical ministriesNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…41:27Through-deck cruisers preserved carrier aviationNotable Point
- Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal3:00British interests and global commitmentsChapter
- Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal15:49Military capability underwrites diplomatic statusNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:10:55Defence reviews and the cost of inter-service rivalryQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:04:19Why UK defence problems cannot be blamed on civil servants aloneNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:26:21Stable requirements as a defence economy measureQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:21:35Britain needs naval reach without hollowing the ArmyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:25:18How defense cuts encouraged the Falklands miscalculationQ&A