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- What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?33:17The cruiser as the visible face of British sea powerNotable Point
- What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?49:29Cruisers the Dominions could sustainChapter
- What happens if the Invincibles really were Dreadnought Armoured Cruisers?54:11What Asquith could count as a capital shipChapter
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:20:31Could a federal Commonwealth sustain a larger navy?Q&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:22:24Why a lasting Commonwealth would need political inclusionNotable Point
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?1:46The Franco-Russian alliance and Germany's two-front problemChapter
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?15:42Why the alliance mattered to India and AustraliaNotable Point
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?32:59The proposed Russian route to IndiaNotable Point
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?35:26Britain as a defender of the imperial status quoNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?9:24Churchill, shrinking budgets, and the Ten Year RuleChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one26:24New guns consumed industrial capacity and logistical effortNotable Point
- What happens if Emperor Napoleon III of France backs Emperor Maximilian of Mexico to the Maximum?50:26Silver trade as a French commercial incentiveNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:57:58Arms manufacture, capital and the East India CompanyNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:56:52British bureaucratic inheritance and Commonwealth procurementNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous34:18The Cairo settlement and the search for durable bordersChapter
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous58:14How much earlier could the new capital ships have arrived?Notable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:38:41Could imperial gold production support Britain's monetary policy?Q&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:21Napoleon's exile creates a chronology problem for the War of 1812 scenarioQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:50What Britain might demand after the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:32Indigenous allies and the proposed buffer stateQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:00British control of Louisiana could contain US expansionQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:27Why the Type 45 is proposed as a British equivalent to the BurkeQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:21Useful Caribbean privateers could retain Crown supportQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:40A 1949 attack on Hong Kong risks an immediate wider warQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:38The cost of annexation in a hypothetical Anglo-Argentine warQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:52The cost of developing colonies to mainland standardsQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:32World War II without Lend-Lease or US interventionQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:49British power in a world without the United StatesQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:06Dominion status and the institutional risks of rapid withdrawalNotable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:20:47Integrating foreign ships in a surviving British EmpireQ&A
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America3:42Greeks, Romans, and the politics of losing a fleetNotable Point
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America22:04American neutrality toward Europe and AsiaChapter
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America23:28British imperial resources and the risk of escalationNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:20:20The assumptions behind a 45-trillion colonial-extraction estimateNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:07:12Imperial commitments drove British testing and flexibilityNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:16:00Britain planned for simultaneous wars in several theatresNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s11:45The Mediterranean Fleet as an imperial response forceNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:23Teaching Vitruvius when a student denies Roman historyQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:10Canada, dominion status, and collective securityQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:30Could the British Empire keep expanding to world conquest?Q&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:20When a world empire becomes a federal CommonwealthNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:10Why preventing the American Civil War requires a causeQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:26Canada as a constituent of an imperial federationQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:33Separate Union and Confederate navies after the Civil War eraQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:05:49Ireland likely reaches Dominion-style status by 1920Q&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:00:01The commercial network behind British-aligned sea powerNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:19:45How U-boats weakened Japan's postwar economyQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:39Which imperial territories planned docks for Hood, G3, and N3?Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:00Imperial dry docks for Hood, G3, and N3-size shipsQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:25:39Extra carriers do not erase the Allies' industrial advantageNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:10British control of nineteenth-century cable routesQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:33Who would pay for a British African Army?Notable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:37Why colonial control differed across Asia and AfricaQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:28China as a buffer and a target of economic influenceQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:18Russia, India, and Britain's choice of European partnersNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:28Balanced introductions to the British EmpireQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:01:21Canada wins the imperial policy contestQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:16:26Early peace changes British debt and American standingNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:23:53Early peace preserves the prewar alliance systemChapter
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:24:01Longevity gives the alliance political gravitasQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:39:38Alliance ties bring British relief after the Kanto earthquakeQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:48:41HMS Hood would transform Australian naval capabilityQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)35:04Why prewar reserve destroyers depended on British crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:54Churchill's Treasury role and Singapore's defencesQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:24Could the Dominions receive smaller British carriers?Q&A
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:08:53Dedicated escorts free destroyers for fleet dutiesNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:10:51Most navies underinvest in unshowy escort hullsNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:18:35Maritime industrial blocs gain from a longer rearmament periodNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:25:16Why retaining British Panama would not erase the Monroe DoctrineQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:02The constitutional changes required by a surviving British EmpireNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:57:08Why allies cannot simply fill every US escort gapQ&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?35:14Self-determination challenged the empires endorsing itNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:02:50Imperial transition already predated the charterNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:05:27Imperial maps after 1945 included former Italian territoriesNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:06:59Postwar planning strengthened independence argumentsChapter
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:40A loyal Pennsylvania as Britain's North American bufferQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:25How British Hawaii reshapes Pacific basingQ&A
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?46:14British debt repayment and the end of rolling infrastructure investmentNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:11:35War-debt repayment and British reluctance to start a naval raceNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:24:39France's Mediterranean and imperial commitmentsNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:30:25How stronger British victories might alter the postwar balanceQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:15Imperial federation, membership and a four-superpower Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:01Covert intervention and deniable arms supplyNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:25Why colonial damage complicates decolonisationNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:10:45How an earlier peace could change the Commonwealth and PalestineNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!6:24Mercantilism and the trade routes behind empireNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:34British Hawaii and Pacific basingQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:07Would British Hawaii attract the same settler migration?Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:40Hawaii compared with Caribbean decolonizationNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:23A royal marriage preserves Anglo-Japanese tiesQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:10Dominion fleets and a West Indies federationQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?6:33Haldane reforms and the Imperial General StaffChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...13:10Dominion self-government and local defence costsNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII3:19British sea power and Canada's trade-defence problemNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:59:41Infrastructure capacity and the Bengal famine responseNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?43:46The dispute over Britain's war-debt repaymentsQ&A
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?59:52Cash-and-carry and Britain's imperial finance networkQ&A
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit22:28British intervention threatened Germany's hope of a short warNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit24:58Jute, sandbags, and the industrial power of empireChapter
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:29:42Jute supplied tents, coverings, rope, and transport sacksNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers12:29Dominion carriers complicate treaty limitsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers26:08Dominion flagships multiply imperial fast-ship strengthQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships23:21Why imperial distance kept capital-ship speed valuableNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:04:00Teaching imperial war history beyond the exam timetableQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:21:33Why Crown Colony cruisers could be named for protectoratesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…6:43:30How geography shaped Commonwealth wartime industryChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:17Indian teak's quality and shipbuilding costQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust8:55Preparing colonies for independence through institutionsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust27:41Why a 1904 war with Russia would reshape later imperial politicsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust47:05Afghanistan's rail gauges and fear of invasion corridorsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:56:18Taking Egypt would make the Ottoman Empire Britain's priority targetQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:50:41The British Empire's wider industrial contributionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust5:40:34The Guerra Grande and overlapping foreign supportChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust5:55:00Navigation and markets as aims of informal empireChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust6:34:40British economic access and suspected support for Rosas's opponentsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust6:49:38Unpaid troops in the account of Tipu Sultan's fallNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust6:57:39River access and the suggested supply route for Rosas's opponentsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust8:02:20What could Britain seek in exchange for its part of Cameroon?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust8:30:24African colonies and the importance of productive farmlandQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust8:56:04Unpopular British Army postings in the 1920sQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:02:42Why a Caribbean posting appealed in the 1920sQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:04:51If Europe divided into Protestant and Catholic great-power blocsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:02:01If Charles Gordon obeyed the order to leave KhartoumQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:14:50If the Sinai Peninsula vanished when the Suez Canal openedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II5:40:31How Indian independence in 1920 might shape naval powerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I2:22:40A German-Russian personal union remakes EuropeQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:48Why an empire might use Singaporean or Qatari warship designsQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:03Informal empire avoids the overhead of formal ruleNotable Point
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!22:53Global naval power depends on transport and logisticsNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:56:06Would India become a Dominion in this timeline?Q&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:59:46Would the Allies take a harder line against communist powers?Q&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:11A French civil war before July 1914Q&A
- Why do Historians sigh when they hear the words "But this is what I was taught at school"1:18The Berlin-Baghdad railway and competing interestsNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:45How the East India Company became a corporate empireNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:19The East India Company's dissolution and claimed successorsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:35Why naval mines were cached deep inside SudanQ&A
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?21:24Commerce disruption attacks wartime financeNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:52:12Why surplus British monitors would find few buyersQ&A
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?0:00Why Dominion navies shared Britain's treaty allocationChapter
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?34:44Dominion flagships as status symbols and British ordersChapter
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?1:07:32Battlecruisers threaten cruisers more than battle linesNotable Point
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?17:35Rival trading empires could still cooperateNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:25Consultation in a century-long decolonization planQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:36India gains Dominion status after the First World WarQ&A
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?42:28Why valuable naval infrastructure also needs protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:23:25Why an 1880s German-American alliance would unravelQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:12Dominion battlecruisers as dry-dock policyQ&A
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...43:45Resources, transport, and security support national powerChapter
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold17:18From moving goods to maritime empireNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:34Why Britain could not keep its wartime fleet in peacetimeQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:16:47Imperial expansion and constrained local choicesNotable Point
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville & the Battle of Hudson Bay(1697)27:35York Factory reveals the long cost of colonial garrisonsNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:02:04How the Royal Canadian Navy became a top-three fleetQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:06:52Bathurst-class corvettes and Australian wartime shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:07:42Wilhelm II inherits Britain during the naval raceQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:09:22Would the colonies accept an Anglo-German personal union?Q&A
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!57:18Territory, self-determination, and unequal free tradeChapter
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:15:54How Roosevelt and Churchill could present the charter at homeNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:37:22Self-determination sharpened pressure for decolonizationChapter
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:44:28War and economic shocks compressed Britain's dominion timetableNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:46:36Dominion status and the Commonwealth transitionChapter
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:50:32The Commonwealth as an informal economic empireNotable Point
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- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:10:18Tribal destroyers combined elite combat and diplomacyChapter
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:55A successful Franklin expedition and British AlaskaQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:06Opium, silver, and Britain's informal empireNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:42Darwin's weak defenses and Dominion responsibilityNotable Point
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:02World police, imperial umpire, and alliance burden sharingNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:11Partitioning France after NapoleonQ&A
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...45:28Cowes Week turned dreadnoughts into diplomatic theaterNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...1:10:30Britain could not preserve naval primacy on the cheapNotable Point
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- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:04Simultaneous imperial revolts during the First World WarQ&A
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose25:20Why Britain seized the Cape Colony in 1795Notable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose35:05Why Cape settlers would not support LucasNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:45:51Would the imperial naval system create disputes between member fleets?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:53:38Would Dominion capital ships survive into World War II?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:56:00Would this produce a longer Pax Britannica?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:10:26What would later naval treaties regulate?Q&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:33A British Hawaii redirects American expansion elsewhereQ&A
- 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
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction19:54Empire required a balanced Royal NavyNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:06:40Coal, bases, and the voyage to East AsiaQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:20How Malta passed from Hospitaller rule to British controlNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:45Why British imperial strategy acquired and relinquished territoryQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:45Why a global empire would centralize fleets and air powerQ&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership9:26Why Anglo-American strength still depended on political cohesionNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership9:26How First World War trauma shaped disarmamentChapter
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:24:14Rowley's rapid landing at DominicaChapter
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:23:34If American independence had not come in 1776Q&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:43:30Why Italy could not make the Mediterranean Mare NostrumQ&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?22:24Martello towers spread a compact defensive model across the British EmpireNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?3:13:30A war without American combat entry depends on Japan staying outQ&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?3:24:27British public credit financed wars beyond current tax receiptsNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued1:37Books on naval logistics and the Scramble for AfricaQ&A
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- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:16How Britain's long decolonization model was meant to workQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:42Why stable Commonwealth partners served British economic interestsNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:55The Commonwealth transition began before the postwar retreatNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:38The Belgian Congo as an extreme within imperial violenceNotable Point
- Brewster Buffalo: An Aircraft let down by it's Company...30:43Why Britain bought a second-choice fighterChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!56:34Why reserve planning cannot assume wars of choiceNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!59:32Comparing empires without excusing colonialismNotable Point
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias1:02:56Defeat shifts Britain from conquest toward independence movementsChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition10:04The imperial fleet's cruiser gapNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...56:56Roosevelt's anti-imperial vision and the unexpected CommonwealthNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...57:13Why Britain's empire depended on naval deterrenceNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes1:05:26Caribbean conquests as bargaining chips for CanadaNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:03Why post-1991 US dominance was historically unusualNotable Point
- Paulet Affair of 1843: When the Royal Navy found itself in charge of Hawaii0:00Why Britain preferred an independent HawaiiChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:31:23Malaya's rubber and tin mattered to Britain's war financesQ&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?2:03Global trade routes met an infrastructure bottleneckChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?28:50Hospital ships show why enabling capabilities lose budget argumentsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth37:06Coaling stations underpinned British global naval powerChapter
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:22Fusion and beam weapons transform the prewar balanceQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:35How beam weapons in 1910 Canada would redirect naval rivalryQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:09Combining British and American industrial advantagesQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:56Why a leading great power was not yet a superpowerNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:42British overseas trade and naval coercionNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...4:09Samurai upbringing and the Anglo-Satsuma WarChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:58:17Richard Vesey Hamilton defines the two-power standardChapter
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...30:46A French purchase of the Suez Canal sharesQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:10:34British theater command before modern combatant commandsQ&A
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?6:40The Washington treaty permitted two British capital ships without requiring 16-inch gunsChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?33:41Why the fully armored battlecruiser remained a British ideaQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:39:44A stronger Commonwealth is not a surviving British EmpireNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War2:31Great-power coercion limits the Ottoman victory of 1897Notable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War21:21Canals turn dispersed forces into strategic powerNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...10:05Global fleet duties favor fast capital shipsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:12:29F3 expands overseas presence and refit capacityChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:51:39Why did the League of Nations lack teeth?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:53:15Could a fast carrier squadron accelerate naval aviation?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:00:13Ceylon factories could shorten North African supply routesChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:11:19What did American neutrality mean before World War I entry?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:12:08Imperial infrastructure and the limits of historical expertiseNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates49:44Commonwealth navies operating as one wartime systemNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates1:04:40Teviot and the planned return to MalayaNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202435:46The War of Jenkins' Ear, slave trading, and Spanish American silverNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine: The Myth, The Legend, The Rhetoric, The Reality!45:01The Venezuelan crisis exposed US limitsNotable Point
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:17:31Pax Americana, Britannica, and Romana served the hegemon firstNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality38:04The quoted passages avoided a direct challenge to named great powersNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality52:54Tyler extended the doctrine into the PacificNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality1:03:32Canada reveals the doctrine's reciprocal logicNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality1:39:42Would a British company have received the same response at Magdalena Bay?Q&A
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality2:29:59What if Britain had taken Hawaii first?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:52:02Would Indian independence make naval infrastructure a bad investment?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:58:17Essay: Dominion large cruisers at the Washington ConferenceChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:44:28Four Queen Elizabeths for each Dominion and the treaty balanceQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:49:28How Dominion battleships could drive an escalating design raceNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:33:23How Britain might handle a defeated JapanQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/47:04:14Russian Alaska's vulnerability to BritainNotable Point
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:32:40Australian forward basing would signal an allianceQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:58:52Hitler and Churchill could widen the crisisChapter
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 733:25Welsh coal quality does not remove the logistics problemNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:15:23What would really stop a Suez Canal from being builtQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:18:23Why the Lion class would not simply mount larger gunsQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast43:08Trafalgar was not Britain's only defensive barrierNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast2:08:41Suspected spies and secret wartime emissariesQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast2:19:40Occupation, insurgency, and the limits of a wartime allianceNotable Point
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?30:07An emperor wary of war with America and BritainNotable Point
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?1:43:13How a peaceful Japan changes the wider warChapter
- So what happens in the Pacific if Italy stays neutral for WWII?48:08Cunningham and unused formations reinforce the Far EastChapter
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1081:40:50American interventionism and anti-colonial aimsNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!4:54The Treaty of Kiel and a northern GibraltarChapter
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!7:12Why Britain could part with Helgoland in 1890Chapter
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!26:10Peacetime commerce versus wartime pressureChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!23:29Third rates for a global empireChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII0:00Santa Cruz as a fight for the initiativeChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 10612:45Could Britain have treated Heligoland as another Gibraltar?Q&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 10621:02Why the 1890 bargain favoured BritainChapter
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:08:51European lessons from the Spanish-American WarQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:47:00If Britain took the Philippines in the Napoleonic WarsQ&A
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?21:46An empire defended from the Atlantic and Indian OceanNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?28:06Separated fleets make naval limits harderNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:05:11Comparing the British Empire, Nazism, and imperial violenceQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:28:20Why Britain accepted American control of HawaiiQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:35:17Would Hood's imperial symbolism threaten her museum status?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:29:11Diego Garcia: sovereignty, displaced people, and strategyQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!33:02Empire, free navies, and merchant fleets in world warNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!41:25The Anglo-American coalition and Japan's resource problemNotable Point
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage1:49:36Long-lived carriers return to a multipolar worldChapter
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?4:21A weapon for offsetting American industrial massNotable Point
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...47:47Allied delivery problems differed from Axis scarcityNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 348:34Game territory rules versus maritime sea controlNotable Point
- HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure17:19Dominion self-government and the cost of empireNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier37:01Imperial government determines who pays for defenceNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier48:40Britain's global network distinguishes entry bases from forward basesChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier43:43Britain's three-power problem and the Suez lifelineNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier46:01Imperial armies let Britain prioritise sea and air powerNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:07:34Capital ships and light carriers for Australia and CanadaNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:11:25Colonial escorts and joint imperial fleetsNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:25:47Strategic depth for Japan, an imperial lifeline for BritainNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:27:45British responses to very large guns and imperial logisticsNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!5:18Three naval powers, three strategic problemsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign52:24Grand strategy and the value of restraintChapter
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier30:58Why Britain does not work as the counterfactual aggressorNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff14:03Singapore, imperial mobilization, and the shock of France's fallNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?35:58Interwar savings became wartime infrastructure debtsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:59:48Britain's wartime finance and layered postwar shocksChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 312:38Why distant stations demanded survivable carriersNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:32:28The postwar economy behind fleet contractionNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 234:59The British Empire spreads shipbuilding capacity and costNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:18:17Canadian Tigers at the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!51:34Dominion autonomy after the Statute of WestminsterQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:55:45Building naval aircraft in the DominionsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:05:45Overseas Merlin factories and Mediterranean logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:36:04Australia outside British Washington Treaty tonnageQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:44:34Why old British capital ships could build Dominion naviesQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:54:20Distributing British capital ships among the DominionsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered36:56Planning and accelerating the British imperial transitionQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:38:34Why Hood's loss is not the start date of imperial declineQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:38:39Who would buy Germany's colonies before 1914Q&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:29:05Britain fights Spain in 1898Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19384:03The Commonwealth as an unusual end to empireNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:40:55Dominion cruisers and treaty bargainingQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:48:51Support fleets for Dominion naviesQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:58:45The fleet interwar India could supportQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:02:07Could a Dominion have preserved Warspite?Q&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:16:21Indian investment and Far Eastern defenseQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:54:08The three-fleet unit and imperial force structureQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:14:07A submarine world cruise as imperial displayQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends14:25The Bengal famine and lost maritime capacityQ&A
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History38:02Pacific security releases Dominion forcesNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History41:08A peaceful Pacific supports trade and supplies for North AfricaNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:27:10Q&A: Comparing surface world cruises with SandblastQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:14:02Imperial scale does not remove fleet constraintsNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...46:04Japanese industry could reduce Britain's dependence on American aidNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:10:26Would the alliance rapidly decolonise Japan?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:05:55A shorter war would leave Britain stronger at the peace tableChapter
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:17:28Where would India stand in this scenario?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:26:35Who follows Victoria if her sons die first?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:55:22Royal Navy force structure without a treaty pauseQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:17:59South African independence and British sea power in 1914Q&A
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers4:27Alliance continuity could not by itself preserve the British EmpireNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:09:48Where treaty politics would permit 18-inch coastal gunsQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:12:29Could a fast Agincourt have displaced the battlecruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:34:55A larger Saint Helena could enter the United Kingdom directlyQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:21:17British diplomacy benefited from arriving after PerryNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:41:13The Opium Wars joined trade imbalance to gunboat coercionNotable Point
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:58:50Industrial capacity limits Axis-victory counterfactualsNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:38:22Why Britain cannot evade limits through Dominion transfersQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:17:49Why Britain would fund naval expansion without treaty securityNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19423:35:48Minimal physical damage, major strategic disruptionChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development12:29Admiral Madden's eleven-carrier fleet planNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:13:39Four aircraft families simplify a global air armNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:14:44Doctrine assumes the Royal Navy will be locally outnumberedChapter
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:03:19Imperial trade creates administrative commitmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered48:30A twenty-ship Royal Indian Navy in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:16:52Japan as a British supplier in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:08:43A British-captured Alaska becomes part of CanadaQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:16:57Why an American war with Britain in 1861 could deepen divisionQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:55:43How empires and officer training spread military traditionsQ&A
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...21:12The treaty-era Ark Royal as a strike carrierChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered21:59Why imperial coastal forts remained obsoleteQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:26:17A Viking Azores and Atlantic imperial competitionQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:13:13An imperial railway trades flexibility for an immense fixed investmentQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:59:17Britain had little reason to trade Portugal for German goodwillQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!17:01How an expanded Tribal class might be namedQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!39:40Why Britain retained a large navy after 1945Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:40:11A British protectorate over HawaiiQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:05:53Britain's quiet support for the Monroe DoctrineQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:14:43Why France built Suez and Britain bought itQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:25:20Britain's interest in canals paid for by othersQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:37:59Britain's argument against the building holidayQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:42:14An Anglo-Japanese alliance after the fall of FranceQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:26:49A natural strait through PanamaQ&A
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1021:46Arms-for-furs in the wider pattern of British imperial commerceNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence40:18Treaty rules leave room for adaptable sloopsChapter
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!28:58The Royal Navy prepared a deep list of Tribal-class namesQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!51:21The American rebellion preceded the French Revolutionary WarsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:55:05Wilhelm II was unlikely to abandon rivalry with Britain through persuasionQ&A
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response20:42Why Germany needed a short war against stronger coalitionsNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response23:15Why 'the British Empire was flat broke' is too simpleNotable Point
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri13:00Why Britain had to remain the benchmark navyNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?15:09Singapore's base investment lacked a dedicated defense commandNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:17:39Singapore and the problem of American neutralityChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:27:35Sydney and the strain on British global powerChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:32:08Could attacking Australia knock Britain out of the war?Q&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:33:39Would the Pacific crisis draw in more African troops?Q&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:36:18Indian pilots were overlooked, not unknownNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:54:46Neutral bases could restrict American submarinesNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:59:01Would Britain join an American war against Japan?Q&A
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response39:22Why First World War debt was not an American trump cardNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:38:42Operation C as a counterfactual imperial turning pointNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency23:59Silver, trade, and the Opium Wars comparisonNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency26:05Russia's Ottoman bargain misread British interestsChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency29:01Avarice and the East India Company's institutional motiveQ&A
- Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response9:20Global commitments complicate theater labels for British carriersNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 44:45Why a German fleet aimed at France still faced BritainNotable Point
- The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response0:09Britain's dilemma if the Anglo-Japanese Alliance survived Pearl HarborQ&A
- The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response2:30Why Canada might not remain neutral in an Anglo-American warQ&A
- The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response3:03Why the Empire-to-Commonwealth change was not a simple breakupNotable Point
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response5:35Where Britain might have placed 18-inch coastal gunsQ&A
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response13:13Why the G3 design suited an Eastern Fleet missionNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response36:52The G3-N3 program and British financesQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:03:09World War I strained Britain without repeating 1945Notable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:22:17Imperial structure shaped the Commonwealth transitionNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?14:29Why Russian partition proposals alarmed BritainNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?16:29The Opium Wars as a contrast in diplomatic framingNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?47:24The ultimatum that made aggression the key diplomatic testNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?1:02:20A Russian victory that widened the Crimean WarChapter
- HNLMS Schorpioen: KSS1 S6 Comment Response7:00What Britain's maritime priority left underdevelopedNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response22:50What if Cerberus had become an imperial defence type?Notable Point
- Bruships 130: Battleships46:38Britain's prewar cycle of borrowing and debt repaymentQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:05:29A cruiser response to a 1920s hostage crisisQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:17:37How interwar imperial investment could reshape the warQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:34:11What an interwar Dominion naval buildup would actually buildQ&A
- HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response2:07Cotton, emancipation, and the limits of British support for the ConfederacyQ&A
- HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response3:55What could have drawn Britain into the American Civil War?Q&A
- HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response10:06Why cotton shortages did not dictate immediate British interventionQ&A
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore17:29Colonial priorities could leave defence as somebody else's problemNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore20:20Dominion politics reshaped Britain's Pacific alignmentChapter
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore24:00Jellicoe linked the Far East base to imperial consultationChapter
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore24:59Imperial conferences gave Dominion leaders influenceNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:30:04Sydney forces an enduring joint Far East commandChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?28:37What did European empires want in 1920s Southeast Asia?Q&A
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?34:29Why 1920s Thailand should not be mapped as Japan's allyNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?34:59The dominions and the Anglo-Japanese alliance dilemmaChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?46:29A Far Eastern base as a promise to the dominionsNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:04:49Why the Far East deputy commander would be AustralianQ&A
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:25:04Joint command, not the dockyard, is the decisive changeChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:25:00Far-Flung Lines and the economics of imperial defenceChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:27:37The Dominion fleet-unit concept and its costsChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty10:01Treaty ratios through national strategic needsChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty39:49Why Washington wanted Britain's older capital ships goneNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...56:47South Dakota and Lexington as a fleet systemChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:01:56How one fast battleship could trigger several foreign responsesNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:39:34British global commitments and the Lion classChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:54:32How would Australia and the Dominions enter the war?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:24:44Why long-range counterfactuals accumulate uncertaintyQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:38:04From empire to a more muscular CommonwealthNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre3:04:15Why British Empire alternate histories can feel staticQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics45:19Why 'offshore patrol vessel' displaced 'sloop'Notable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:02:12How large an empire-wide patrol fleet might beQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:06:12A three-way Cold War without NATO or the UNQ&A
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 99:11Nelson as an embodiment of distant imperial powerNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:30:05Why a surviving British imperial fleet changes the Falklands premiseQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:14:42How to design a different 1958 Mutual Defence AgreementQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:41:18How Western Europe might relate to an imperial federationQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:51:19How a British victory in 1776 could change slavery and patrolsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:15:16Why an isolationist America means no historical NATOQ&A
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII49:33The British Merchant Navy drew on a multinational workforceChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1026:43Nine sloops a year offered a treaty-era escort alternativeChapter
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?7:46Italian East Africa's logistics were only an inch deepNotable Point
- Invasion of Trimcomalee(1795)40:28Trincomalee harbour and control of the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Invasion of Trimcomalee(1795)41:33Imperial success concentrates Britain's major threatsNotable Point
- Invasion of Trimcomalee(1795)42:56The peace settlement exposes Dutch dependenceNotable Point
- Invasion of Trimcomalee(1795)43:29Did Britain acquire imperial infrastructure or build it?Notable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences17:39The global war behind the first captureNotable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:21:20From Trincomalee to the fall of ColomboChapter
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:26:34A European treaty confirms the loss of CeylonNotable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:29:50Peter Rainier's career, fortune, and namesake mountainNotable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:53:37Did Ceylon's loss end the Dutch Empire?Q&A
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits9:03British sea power, reach, and logisticsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 52:52:14Scottish participation in British imperial expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:29:23Steel production as a strategic industryQ&A
- Battleships of the Treaty Era7:34American eavesdropping at the Washington ConferenceNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:58:41Which dominion would receive a treaty battleshipQ&A
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 613:27British imperial manpower complicated Japanese deterrenceNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties13:16Empire submarine flotillas as regional deterrenceNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties19:27An Empire cruiser baseline before the London TreatyNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties54:19A Dominion sloop program as wartime mobilization insuranceNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?29:44An Empire submarine force outside treaty limitsNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?53:25A Dominion sloop program for escorts and industryNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:17:03Madagascar exposed South Africa's defense gapQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:34:09What diplomatic advantages did Britain gain at Washington?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:51:46Would a larger Indian Navy have defected?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:53:31Did Dominion ships count against British treaty limits?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:56:57Could Dominion ships have strengthened Force Z?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:08:44Did the treaties prevent naval infrastructure investment?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:12:10New Zealand's naval contribution and skilled migrationNotable Point
- Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory0:41Germany's land-power problem and Britain's maritime strengthChapter
- Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory43:16Relative power can fall while national wealth growsNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...23:05British disarmament ideals and imperial cruiser needsChapter
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...32:24Dominion security depended on the Royal NavyNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...32:50Canadian economy versus visible deterrenceNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...40:10Why one Commonwealth navy mattered to the ratiosNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...49:38India's navy as security and nation-buildingNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...54:43Indian railways and the immediate cost of developmentNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...1:27:14Testing treaty arithmetic with an Australian capital shipNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?59:32Britain's postwar bargain between welfare and sea powerChapter
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:13:01Balfour's Commonwealth and shared defence costsNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:21:01Canada's low-cost route to Commonwealth securityNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:37:42Australia and New Zealand defend themselves in depthChapter
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:38:28The unrealised dominion cruiser bargainNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:52:31South Africa prioritises internal security and infrastructureNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?2:03:04Sastri links naval capacity to Indian nation-buildingNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?3:26:45The gap between treaty limits and national aimsNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure22:31Why Britain reused the name CommonwealthNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure1:16:04Britain and the colonies misjudged each other's strategic valueNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock32:23Indefatigable and Dominion sea powerNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:23:33Lion batches for a globally divided fleetNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:35:15Imperial trade and relationships with colonial elitesNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:04:03Molasses, rum, and the Caribbean trade triangleChapter
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:09:21Did Britain try to take the Caribbean islands later?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:12:32How colonial political culture diverged from BritainNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:17:14The Sugar Act in a longer colonial breakNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:27:05Were the thirteen colonies lightly taxed?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:29:28Why Britain did not see the thirteen colonies as indispensableNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:46:24Why Britain repealed the Navigation ActsChapter
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:58:37Do modern American power assumptions fit the thirteen colonies?Q&A
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail17:04The British Empire as historical accidentNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail59:26Why financial power encouraged global naval policingNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail16:19Why the Seven Years' War is the starting pointNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?13:45Why British colonies did not all use sterlingQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:23:39Why a long war favoured Allied industrial depthNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:02:36British production extended beyond the home islandsNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:57:43Industrial infrastructure limited Axis war plansChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:15:10Cockatoo Island was expanding Dominion naval capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:18:44Britain's naval power did not vanish in 1945Notable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:26:55Decolonization and the planned turn toward CommonwealthChapter
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:02:28Delay risks an Anglo-American industrial coalitionQ&A
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 910:01A carrier built for a global Royal NavyChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane2:43Why aircraft numbers matter across an empireQ&A
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response18:42Britain's strategic response to American economic scaleQ&A
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response22:06Economic scale narrowed Britain's strategic optionsNotable Point
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?44:25Postwar planning assumed imperial survivalQ&A
- Glorious First of June (1794)3:09:28Was Belgian neutrality guaranteed by Britain or its empire?Q&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:24:29If Malta became part of the United KingdomQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:14:54India's Dominion status and the legacy of imperial ruleQ&A
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 229:40A maritime empire's demand for battleship scaleNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...1:05:21American unreadiness would shape Britain’s opening strategyQ&A
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...2:05:27Britain’s empire did not rest on huge garrisons everywhereQ&A
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...3:11:34Australia’s navy was too British to switch sides cleanlyQ&A
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:08:00Imperial warship transfers and American treaty fearsQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett11:54Why an Empire cruise could skip IndiaQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett48:00Overseas territorial losses after a hypothetical American defeatQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:13:47French Canadian concerns about losing British protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett2:40:28Why Canada did not join the American RevolutionQ&A
- We Beat The Daisy... Ship Naming7:29Tribal-class names linked martial reputation to imperial recruitmentChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:04:26Patronage did not excuse failure in the British officer classChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:11:54Royal Navy examinations and professional gatekeepingQ&A
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 78:05Huáscar's namesake and the rivalries behind naval demandChapter
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent7:20Mahan and Corbett addressed different political problemsChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword38:09Why money could not hurry Indian Dominion statusQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword46:54Comparing colonial rulers without excusing colonialismQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword47:54India needed direct main lines and repair capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword54:37How a Brunel victory could globalize broad gaugeNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:45:28An early Japanese defeat redirects Allied resourcesNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/28:45Britain's coalition lesson from the American RevolutionNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/217:19British shipping replaces Spanish commercial powerNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/219:41The first British expedition overreachesChapter
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/222:08The second expedition arrives after local power has grownChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)1:20:09Reassessing Britain's garrison as Russia growsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)2:48:48Russian gains in Scandinavia and the move against IcelandChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)3:11:12Financing a British response to Russian expansionNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)3:35:18Using Ceylon to limit Maratha expansion in IndiaChapter
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword39:29Dominion fleet choices mixed local budgets with Admiralty influenceQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books28:31Why British naval and army budgets are hard to compareQ&A
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)53:00Political economy behind the colonies’ break with BritainChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources34:01A defeated United States and a new colonial scrambleQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:08:49Molotov's Berlin visit and the proposed Four Power PactChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response36:41A period guide to British imperial defense geographyNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?51:56How the Revenge program could redistribute older dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)12:04Domestic investment before imperial expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:21:40If the Canadian colonies had joined the American RevolutionQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:22:18Cross-India railways versus maritime supplyQ&A
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class23:54War debt, treaty trust, and an interwar naval arms raceNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:43:12Hong Kong treaty obligations in an alternate historyQ&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)12:48Convict transportation before AustraliaNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response37:16American aid drained British assets without requiring anti-British intentQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response40:03The Commonwealth model reduced the cost of direct imperial ruleNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:11:00The political cost of Far Eastern alliance aidNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:09:19A County-class heavy cruiser for CanadaQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:31:51Dominion cruiser orders and British shipyardsNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:23:09Dominion cruisers and treaty allowancesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-651:07:55A stronger Britain still transitions toward a CommonwealthQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class37:39Royal Navy officers sometimes drafted colonial constitutionsNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?41:34Why Germany wants Britain outside the warNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?2:23:40Why Dominion navies expand after the battleQ&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?2:31:02No postwar mandates could accelerate dominionizationNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:14:10Gunboat diplomacy left a different American legacy in JapanNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect14:44The Royal Navy's blockade-and-seizure strategyChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars31:27British maritime reach accumulated around support stationsChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars33:18Cape-to-Cairo rail promised a shortcut to SuezNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars34:16An Indian rail gap burdened wartime coastal shippingNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars35:24Mercantilist expansion rewarded short-term logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...23:35A stronger Britain and the strategic calculus of VietnamQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...33:17Britain's alliance risks in the Vietnam counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...38:14British and Commonwealth support for Vietnam peace effortsNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:08:11Why US troops could remain in a British-defended EuropeQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:01:53Britain and Germany entered total war with different economic depthNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response7:40Why removing one Allied power rewrites the whole warNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:05:31Why Australia and New Zealand received battlecruisersQ&A
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty47:31A 10:7 ratio could give Japan status while strengthening deterrenceChapter
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response58:37Did the First World War end Britain's imperial power?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:32:25How Australian warships counted under the treatyQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:44:52Could Washington separate Dominion navies from Britain?Q&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road35:46Rainbow Warrior would trigger a diplomatic crisis, not an Anglo-French warQ&A
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 222:38Venezuela misreads the Monroe DoctrineChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 225:17Britain doubles Germany's blockade forceNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 229:17A counterfactual intervention escalates far beyond VenezuelaNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 448:31Leaving the gold standard earlier could accelerate British rearmamentQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations54:38The case for a continuous Empire sloop programNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 330:10Why Dominion status would not necessarily close AlangQ&A
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation41:20The limits of selecting future officers at age twelveChapter
- Town Class (1911): Chathams5:12Chatham-class design combines presence, speed, and firepowerChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19424:05Imperial naval dependence without Imperial-scale fundingChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War23:47Dewey's orders and the Hong Kong logistical springboardChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War30:38Tsingtao and the great-power contest around the PhilippinesNotable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:20:58A global cruiser war constrained by coal and diplomacyChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War23:38Why Europe did not collectively challenge the Monroe DoctrineQ&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:41:46What a neutrality warning meant at SuezQ&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:42:09Why Britain tolerated American expansion in 1898Q&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:48:36Why Britain tolerated France's intervention in MexicoQ&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:49:21Would Washington heed a British warning to stop?Q&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times58:45A British-influenced Panama Canal modeled on SuezQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:20:22Britain's financial weakness was more postwar than wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:09:35War accelerated British decolonisation without causing itQ&A
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.4:56The Royal Navy's global dockyard networkChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.11:26Prewar Australasian investment shared the Far Eastern burdenNotable Point
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.34:57Industrialising India could have produced a stronger wartime partnerNotable Point
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:05:29Missed investment cycles and imperial declineChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:09:49Local ship orders could strengthen the whole imperial economyChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.8:07Why imperial naval investment contracted after 1918Chapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.18:12Reading the history of British military infrastructureQ&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:21:43India's missed transition from teak ships to steel warshipsChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:25:25Indian shipyards could link industrial growth with political stabilityNotable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:44:16Did the 1857 rebellion end investment in Indian yards?Q&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:16:05The Royal Navy's global base map still had major gapsChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:47:06Could Britain still sustain a global Commonwealth?Q&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today22:19Fleet economies in an imperial federationQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack48:34Would the War of 1812 happen without Canada?Q&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:54:21If Britain retained western France into the Second World WarQ&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)33:02Western Mediterranean geography favored speed and air defenseChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions38:27When Britain began imagining a post-imperial CommonwealthQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions50:29A guide to the Royal Navy's China StationChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:23:28How union with Britain might accelerate American industryQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:30:00Evan Nepean's dispatch desk led to an imperial careerNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)5:30Why Britain argued that it needed seventy cruisersChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)45:15Why Japan sought a seven-to-ten naval ratioChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)33:24Why separate Dominion quotas were rejectedNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...4:03:12How British planners imagined an empire becoming a CommonwealthQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:01:18How cable infrastructure enabled British signals intelligenceQ&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...30:12How Britain treated Malta as a naval baseQ&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:07:46Did Britain apply lessons from America in Malta?Q&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:43:13Why reluctant British imperial expansion kept growingNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:52:17From indirect rule to direct colonial controlQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:53:54The First Opium War as coercive market accessNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:00:14How reluctant acquisitions became useful naval basesQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:49:27Sea power made Britain's empire sustainableNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:19:01The submarine programme that could reshape Britain's warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:43:10How an earlier independent bomb sustains British powerQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:25:33Reading Jellicoe's imperial fleet proposal skepticallyQ&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:24:06Open trade gives Britain financial enduranceNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol1:01:43The Septinsular Republic and contested controlNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:13:47The Ionian Republic, British protection, and union with GreeceChapter
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:24:14Why Britain held the Ionian IslandsNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)37:27World War I's maritime lesson shaped global fleet rolesNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)45:04Worldwide dock investment and maritime powerNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:23:26How wartime logistics exposed India's infrastructure weaknessNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)24:36Duncan Dock and the distances of empireChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)45:54Auckland's Calliope Dock reflects steam-era support demandsChapter
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)20:59Nancy Sumner, Hawaiian nobility, and personal choiceNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:10:07China, commerce, and an admiral's political reachChapter
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:26:32If Malta had remained a British overseas territoryQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:31:49How the Royal Navy understood Tribal-class namesQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)1:29:51European fleets become part of Indian Ocean politicsNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:55:32Did empires build large warships overseas?Q&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:37:30A surviving British Commonwealth in the Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:33:22Why Britain compensated slave owners at abolitionNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"1:45:38A German Western European empire in 1915 would still face a long warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)14:10When governors could call on military powerQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:41:45Why strong Indian shipyards did not create local battle fleetsQ&A
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)29:20Imperial stations and the County programmeNotable Point
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)8:57The Anglo-Japanese Alliance as strategic priority-settingNotable Point
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises14:35Why Britain still feared RussiaNotable Point
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises1:33:35Tax capacity behind British naval powerNotable Point
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises2:12:56How splendid was Britain's isolation?Q&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:35:45Where the Grimsby class fitted into interwar escort thinkingQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:44:25Why imperial shipyard capacity was slow to expandQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:52:37Imperial industry and the politics of Commonwealth transitionNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:15:14Avoiding American targets might only delay U.S. entryQ&A
- Bruships 63: Trailer1:54Archival research and the higher direction of warChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:19Why the Seven Years' War was globalChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)56:31Q&A: why losing the Thirteen Colonies did not ruin BritainQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)1:29:26Q&A: Hanover was not the same as Britain's empireQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat11:30Britain's merchant fleet and its imperial workforceNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:22:48How Dominion dreadnoughts could transform the arms raceQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...3:12:28Where did British public money go before World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:59:11Why 'Britain stood alone' distorts wartime capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books29:38Moral and economic motives in British abolitionQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:38:56Treaty fuel exclusion favored global naviesNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)15:07Did the British Empire collapse or dissolve?Q&A
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)1:33Imperial division and Caribbean rivalryChapter
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)4:53Colonial costs and the lure of Spanish treasureNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)14:08South Sea Company pressure for wider tradeNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:43:08What American independence changed for British imperial strategyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:34:35Why the Royal Navy retained old capital ships while building new onesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:31:20Why superpowers do not follow one learning curveQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/428:53Empire, capital, and Japan’s strategic assumptionsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:19:48An industrial African state could turn partition into alliance and warQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:32:20Empire without adequate defensive preparationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea7:27Britain's global commitments and multiple naval threatsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea18:25Sloops could build escorts and shipyard capacityChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 5/11 Building a Navy11:23French imperial security relied on British sea powerNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 4/11 What Dreadnought Obscures0:48Four-funnel liners before TitanicChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral3:23Charles Keyes and the Indian Army on the Punjab frontierChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral5:06A military family and an unexplained naval ambitionChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:05:19Trade networks after empireNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:13:15The distinction between a colony and an overseas territoryQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:19:13Malta and the alternative of political integrationQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:02:24A larger Indian National Army commitmentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:16:55Anti-colonial choices between violent empiresNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:09:38The fleet manoeuvre behind Wolfe's Quebec attackQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)18:47A British North America enters both world wars earlyQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions17:21Britain, empire, and a long war of attritionQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions50:27Commonwealth manpower and shipbuilding supportNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy8:49Why advancing in Italy mattered in AsiaNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)23:53Colonial railways feeding maritime extractionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:58:45Hong Kong's lease and infrastructure dependenceQ&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-178319:05Did Britain acquire colonies mainly to deny them to France?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:33:06The peace gives the new United States two powerful neighborsNotable Point
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:50:41Would losing Gibraltar have redirected British imperial ambitions?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:53:46Why could an overseas posting bring either fortune or fever?Q&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron40:24The two-power standard as insurance against France and RussiaQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:09:03The three-ship Canadian Queen Elizabeth proposalQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:21:56Where British battleship materials came fromQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:17:08Why most imperial capital-ship industry remained in BritainQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class36:17A young Tweedy improvises a river operation in Sierra LeoneNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19076:27Declared purpose shapes naval threat perceptionNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190715:07Proximity and fleet range sharpen the British-German rivalryNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:46:38British decolonisation preserved economic tiesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War12:49Why German naval expansion alarmed BritainNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies59:15Persia between British and Russian influenceNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi4:29:27The East India Company analogy emphasizes imperial persistenceNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?5:02Aid totals reveal Allied staging prioritiesNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P3/5 Lend Lease from the British Perspective18:11Did Lend-Lease abolish Imperial Preference?Q&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease32:18Italy threatened Britain's imperial maritime highwayChapter
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...57:08Italy's entry turns Britain's war into a wider maritime contestChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class11:26Maritime trade links slavery, naval funding, and suppressionNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:07:44Britain kept sending divisions overseas during the invasion scareNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations2:16:05Queen Victoria's final full year amid war and Irish politicsChapter
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:41:33What Britain might have demanded after victory in 1815Q&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:45:45How British treaty ports could reshape the American Civil WarNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:49:31Confederate trade through hypothetical British portsQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:51:13Support for the Union and continued commerceQ&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)1:05:59How a trading company accumulates an empireNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today18:06Why Caribbean colonies mattered to BritainChapter
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today20:16French slavery policy and British imperial opportunismNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today22:22Britain's peripheral strategy in the Napoleonic WarsNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East12:52Opium, unequal treaties, and China's historical memoryNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East42:24Treaty language and battlecruiser visits projected Pacific powerChapter
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:58:42Was Singapore a colony, and why was its defense weak?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet50:57How European powers regarded the Monroe DoctrineQ&A
- The Great White Fleet1:59:38How Britain financed World War I before relying heavily on creditQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...2:26Aircraft carriers as instruments of imperial presenceChapter
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora12:53Why Victorian sea power demanded continual rebuildingChapter
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora49:45Global presence mattered more than a paper battle-fleet totalNotable Point
- Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?1:14:58Would Britain turn the Dardanelles into a colony?Q&A
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War18:59Manchester links an isolated Nicobar anchorage to the empireNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…9:29Why the Royal Navy still needed global cruisersChapter
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?38:05Britain's Far East problem was moving oil, not finding itQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:10:18Empire-wide sloop production in the 300-U-boat counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:18:04Could the Royal Navy conceal submarine construction overseas?Notable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:52:42Which power was best prepared for war in 1939?Q&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:27Why Britain needed many cruisersChapter
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection42:30Britain's recurring search for a post-imperial roleNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"(Intro)1:34The Oregon boundary dispute in the backgroundNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"1:25:31Why prestige could make a limited crisis escalateNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)9:40Britain's regional balancing strategyNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)47:57The canal, imperial logistics, and American primacyChapter
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark3:43:52Did Britain cease to be a first-rank power in 1945?Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War35:23Happy Odyssey and Somaliland serviceChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1310:10Who represented the powers at the London conferenceChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1314:32Dominions, India, and the British Empire in transitionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy22:22Coalition war and Britain's maritime advantageChapter
- The World According to the Royal Navy of the 1930s - 4 minutes0:08Trade routes define the Royal Navy's 1930s worldChapter
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 1 of 23:42Britain was not alone, but carried the burdenNotable Point
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 1 of 219:32Far Eastern income and the Singapore deterrence gambleNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era46:20Britain's shifting relationship with the Ottoman EmpireQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era49:21Egypt, the Suez Canal, and the road to AlexandriaChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...44:41A British flag on a complicated merchant shipQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...55:55Why the seizure was a maritime-law crisisNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:28:05Why 'Britain' means an imperial coalition in 1939Notable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:31:01British money, Chinese forces, and a land warNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:35:42Funding Chinese resistance in the Napoleonic coalition styleNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:48:52British war finance and American interdependenceNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:13:10A limited Pacific war and British economic capacityNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:31:04Island compensation and Formosa after victoryQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 49:28Tsingtao containment shifts attention back to EuropeChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 424:58Global war and the Royal Navy's competing schoolsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 429:05American preparedness and British commerce raidingQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 44:00How imperial refits could send German raiders eastNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 48:42Empire as a security networkNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 432:18Imperial resources and economic warfareNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 40:56Why a January crisis could escalateQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 438:32Italian units, command failures, and fuelNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 454:39Far Eastern munitions and the Cape delayNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 45:36Imperial and colonial forces converge on ChinaNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 43:21The bare-bones coalition against JapanNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)18:02A cruiser could carry the local instrument of governmentNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:11:59Britain, France, and neutrality in the American Civil WarNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:19:22Why Britain compensated slaveholders at emancipationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:28Could Britain have built post-war battleships?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:29:25Putting imperial defence spending in proportionNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:41:57Why Britain reinforced Canada during the US Civil WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:21:35Why Britain did not base a major fleet in IndiaQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie52:18Could Operation C have changed the postwar balance?Notable Point
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-19212:36Why Britain and Japan abandoned splendid isolationChapter
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192121:16Why Britain welcomed a strong Japanese Army but watched its navyNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)3:23Who controlled the Pacific shaped the LST Mark IIINotable Point
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile6:00Overseas experience and the political case for Town-class cruisersChapter
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile12:05How limited overseas infrastructure shaped Royal Navy deploymentChapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video2:53Imperial shipping sustained Britain's war effortChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)4:17HMS Gurkha, imperial identity, and convoy defenceNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)55:43HMS Ashanti's Freetown visit and the politics of a ship's nameChapter
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)5:12Spanish Civil War duties and Ashanti diplomacyChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)1:26British grand strategy needed ships across the worldChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)12:17HMS Ashanti turned a ship name into a diplomatic visitNotable Point