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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:47:34Reading for a Cold War Royal Navy alternate historyQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:24:38Why retain and modernise the Alaskas?Q&A
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!28:00American Cold War frigates as submarine huntersNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!28:43Why gunfire and missiles need different measures of air defenceNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII1:07:24What if small-ship prefabrication had been retained after 1945?Notable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:51Jellicoe's early Cold War importance and Soviet battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:13A 200-boat German programme and Type 143A shipyard throughputQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:18Why Germany was a likely Cold War battlefieldNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:13Type 23 hull options and cuts to the building programmeQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:06:29Why missile-era kill metrics misjudge older heavy gunsNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:22:50The long-lived naval threat of the Badger bomber familyNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:54:48Why a twin 30 mm Goalkeeper concept went no furtherQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...2:04:56USS Norfolk and the limits of an all-3-inch batteryQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...2:18:27What drones were doing in the 1966 naval settingNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?36:03Why U-boats could not replace an invasion escort fleetChapter
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:23:53What would get the Minotaur, Neptune and Tiger cruisers built?Q&A
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?37:11Gorshkov and Soviet ocean-going naval powerNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?39:14Soviet deployments and the cost of diverting NATO forcesNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?55:26Prewar submarine deployments and bastion barriersNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:14:05Supporting the Soviet Union while anticipating a later rivalryNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:33:02Churchill's use of an existing Iron Curtain phraseChapter
- 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...4:04:49British power in a world without the United StatesQ&A
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class1:20:30A postwar carrier and cruiser pairingNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live47:04NATO's understanding of Soviet submarine bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live47:43Why Cold War ships still dominate many fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:25:45Why national stereotypes misread military equipmentQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:18:00Expected naval attrition in a Cold War warQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 212:02What the 1944 G-class destroyers were forQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:32:12Cold War submarine collisions, Whiskey on the Rocks, and stolen hardwareQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:35:01Landing craft and covert acquisition of Cold War vehiclesNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:02:26Preventing the war by changing Cold War incentivesQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:05:31Kissinger's memoirs and information in foreign-policy analysisNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:30Why naval hydrofoils remained a niche technologyQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:35Why Britain studied corvettes in the early 1960sQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today52:27Daring-class presence makes deterrence visibleNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today54:39Charles F. Adams destroyers balance the Cold War screenChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today56:18Why a bulkhead can decide who survives a missile hitNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:00:27Spruance and Burke divide the screening missionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:03:53Nuclear assumptions distort Cold War force planningNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:50:45Post-Cold War planning assumed future wars would be optionalQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:28Eisenhower, the Revolt of the Admirals, and naval aviationQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:55Western fleets without the post-Cold War peace dividendQ&A
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class0:00Yak-38 as the other Cold War V/STOL fighterChapter
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class16:04Why compare the Yak-38 with Sea Harrier 2?Notable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class19:52Soviet risk culture shaped the Yak-38Notable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class26:04Yak-38 accidents, serviceability and withdrawalChapter
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class34:31Kiev's foreign flights and the Minsk interceptNotable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class42:44Why the Yak-38's Cold War shock fadedNotable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class44:02A larger Kiev air group and a better Yak-38Notable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class46:27Sea blindness, surface superiority and short-war assumptionsNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:35A Soviet carrier acquired in 1991 could redirect British naval aviationQ&A
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...0:20Design studies versus ships the Royal Navy actually builtNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...4:30The Cold War starts with a destroyer-heavy Royal NavyChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...7:46NATO focus collides with a wider Royal Navy missionChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...13:43Daring class destroyers set a high postwar benchmarkChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...22:37World War II infrastructure made Cold War missile research cheaperNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...24:25How could the Navy fund missile research despite defence cuts?Q&A
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...49:16Type 82 was conceived as a fleet leader and presence shipChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...54:11Collective security did not erase Britain's own naval tasksChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:06:21Type 42 added Sea Dart firepower to a larger task groupChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:13:28Falklands success required ships to perform an unexpected missionChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:15:49How did armed forces reach their present force-structure position?Q&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:02A Cold War anecdote about Lego in minefieldsNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?52:51The TSR initials lead into linked carrier and bomber cancellationsNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?57:53British decline appears as a sequence of economic shocksNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!0:00KA-27 Helix as a rugged shipborne ASW answerChapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!2:20Gorshkov pushes beyond the KA-25Chapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!9:53Technological claims support Soviet conventional deterrenceNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)48:39Soviet blue-water growth changes the alliance calculationChapter
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:43Which early jet-age naval aircraft still serve?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...2:55:23Post-Cold War expectations and procurement urgencyNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:22:01How did Dutch Marines strengthen Britain's NATO amphibious force?Q&A
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:09:43Why the post-Cold War procurement comparison needs careQ&A
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...0:30Transferred US destroyers give postwar Japan a starting forceChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?28:49Why the Royal Navy chose proven fixed fits after 1982Notable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...33:18The US Navy inherits global sea-lane securityChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?43:25Destroying launch platforms prevents repeated attacksNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?1:10:14Assumed military superiority as a reason to cut forcesNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)4:13Planning for the postwar halt in warship ordersNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds0:00Gearing destroyers as the Cold War baselineChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds6:03America inherits the presence burdenNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds58:42Cold War destroyers had to wage the peaceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....54:13Daring-class balance before guided missilesChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....59:42Charles F. Adams combines guided missiles with guns and ASWChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:02:36Spruance adds aviation and room for missile growthChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:17:13Arleigh Burke and the networked escort tradeoffNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:29A missile-converted Alaska class in the early Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:23:56Soviet artillery planning on the Chinese borderNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:43Suez without American opposition and the price of military autonomyQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:18Why the Soviet Union could not match 340 American escortsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:33Forrest Sherman as a transitional destroyer classQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:46:20Goodhart's optical landing system made jet recovery saferNotable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:29How old is a modern warship design?Notable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:19Zumwalt's hull form and the 1980s stealth studiesQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:21Making the case for a 1952 Royal Navy carrierQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:48Soviet access to Eric Brown's aircraft reportsQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:32The early Cold War in a counterfactual where Roosevelt survivesQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:15:23Why the Allies agreed to destroy most surrendered U-boatsChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:23:22Disposal priorities as attention turned eastNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:48:12Comparative damage tests and Cold War submarine tacticsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:49:21Polish crews and a proposed Soviet route to trial dataNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet0:00Why Cold War memory misses destroyersNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet2:19Gorshkov survives opposition to the surface fleetChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet20:55Cuba exposes the Soviet surface-fleet gapChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet25:30Balanced fleets deny an enemy an easy counterNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet44:00Bastion defense requires global diversionChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet46:09Kiev task groups reveal the next destroyer gapChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet54:48Sunburn connects anti-ship strike to nuclear escalationNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:17:47Period analysts expected fewer but stronger destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:49A British counterpart to the Long Beach guided-missile cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:15Why the Cudgel atomic mine proposal diedQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:19:51A unified Korea and the Soviet Pacific FleetQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:35:35British naval success could encourage Soviet capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:10The European assumption behind predictions of lasting peaceNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:02France's withdrawal from integrated command changed Atlantic reinforcement routesNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:13Why Denmark accepted the Greenland defence arrangementQ&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:27:39Postwar destroyers absorbed disappearing cruiser rolesChapter
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:15Imperial federation, membership and a four-superpower Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:47If the United States bought Greenland during the Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:53:24Why Talos had a nuclear air-defence optionQ&A
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:00:47Institutional planning before and after the Cold WarChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?35:32American and Soviet cruisers served different strategic needsChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?37:05Soviet cruisers beyond the bastionsNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?38:22A multipolar world restores the naval presence missionChapter
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...40:36A Soviet Hokkaido would break America's northern Pacific island barrierQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:19:30An anecdote about Edinburgh, a Soviet textbook and nuclear targetingNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)14:02Specialist fleets depend on procurement continuityNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:15:30Cold War priorities left small-craft defence unevenNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:56:20Losing reserve fleets made naval mass easier to ignoreChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:58:33Availability cycles limit what fewer ships can deliverNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:56:11Post-Cold War ships trade narrow efficiency for breadthQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)3:13:44The twelve-hour-war theory helped erase reservesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics3:18VLS endurance depends on reloading between engagementsNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:34Cold War strike planning without polar routesQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:27Would excluding polar routes reduce the B-52 force?Q&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping34:33Frigates retain an ASW and escort roleQ&A
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?2:16Imperial cost cutting and military reliabilityChapter
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:13:29How Roosevelt might have shaped the early Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:42:09Host-nation politics and inherited base infrastructureNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:10:47What the Soviets could learn from a captured NATO submarineQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates1:38Why general-purpose frigates suit a multipolar worldQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:06Could early Cold War confrontation have been reduced?Q&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:13When naval aggression produces risk without an advantageQ&A
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off28:01Clapp, 801 Squadron, and the Buccaneer's developmentNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…54:30If the communists won the Malayan EmergencyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:19:05Why nuclear deterrence was never purely bipolarQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…6:59:02Why the Cold War US Navy built unusual one-off SSNsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:23:00Why Newport News and Saint Paul remained together in serviceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:30:00Why the US Navy retained all-gun heavy cruisersQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War44:50Submarines listening near the Soviet coastNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:44:06Why the Cold War can distort views of earlier disorderQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:53:06Why early US guided-missile destroyers were not laggardsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust39:29Why a river does not guarantee relief from a blockadeNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust44:31Afghanistan as a possible Soviet logistics route to the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:17:57Cold War priorities in a question about former Axis separatist movementsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:34:40An A-10's weapons role depends on Maverick stocksQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress22:49Type 41 and Type 61 frigates for a long Atlantic warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress33:38Why Britain delayed building offshore patrol vesselsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:08:08Accounts of collecting Cold War tanks by landing craftNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:48:11Why Australia still planned against IndonesiaQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:51:30Why the post-Cold War shipyard contraction is criticisedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:20:22A brief comparison of Ikara and other ASW weaponsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida11:16:03Nuclear-war assumptions and conventional reservesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida11:18:18The argument that nuclear fatalism encouraged short-term decisionsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II5:34:05If the Soviet Union seized Constantinople in 1945Q&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:20A fully funded Royal Navy without nuclear weaponsQ&A
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy0:27How Gorshkov outlasted Soviet leadersChapter
- Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"35:31Looking beyond the Cold War alliance lensNotable Point
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:56County-class destroyers and nuclear-war redundancyQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:49British nuclear cruisers reshape the Commonwealth fleetQ&A
- Procuring for Peace First Draft17:13Conventional deterrence succeeds without leaving a battleNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:38Arming a Canadian 1956 convoy sloopQ&A
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War25:37A successful launch would expose Argentina's fleet to submarine destructionChapter
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:56A naval-centric British Cold War forceQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:00:00What makes the best Cold War carrier interceptor?Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:04Which Cold War aircraft could lay naval mines?Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:12Missile-delivered mines and torpedoes used as minesNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:05What a continuous Cold War shipbuilding program could preserveQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:28A Royal Navy for Atlantic lanes and Soviet bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:23A missile-and-gun cruiser for the imagined 1980s fleetQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:43Bushmaster versus RARDEN on the Warrior IFVQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:52:28Why early nuclear submarines were strategic before they were tactically superiorQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:40:25Carrier battle groups against the Soviet UnionQ&A
- Grumman A6 Intruder: Utilty Bomb Truck that gave Aircraft Carriers Reach, Punch & Flexibility30:31The Intruder in Cold War presence and combat operationsNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:50:32The Commonwealth as an informal economic empireNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence40:20The Flying Squadron demonstrated global naval reachChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft19:50Why war-fighting equations undercount presenceNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft(Part 1)6:24Why bipolar deterrence looked comparatively simpleChapter
- Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...28:18Wolf warrior diplomacy in a multipolar worldNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:34A British maritime strategy adopted in 1980Q&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:51The worst Cold War carrier-aircraft choicesQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:34:13Why Fleming feared Soviet intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:00Tom Lehrer joined Cold War satire to university teachingNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:22:29Gorshkov's case for rebuilding the postwar Soviet fleetChapter
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:38:01Environmental limits were absent from contemporary sea-power theoryQ&A
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:38:41More Soviet cruisers could revive the US strike-cruiser programQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:09Could NATO share the battleship response to Royal Sovereign?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:09A 1991 Soviet hardliner warQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:25Soviet garrisons in a war of political disintegrationNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:05How conscript turnover complicates a sudden Soviet warNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:36Why a hardliner war could leave Moscow weaker than breakupNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:02NATO discovers an 80,000-ton Soviet missile shipQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:22Oto Melara unveils an automatic 381 mm gunQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:14:36Britain prioritizes the Navy in the Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:45:31Britain remains a postwar naval superpowerQ&A
- Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)1:34:14The Falklands became a rare modern test caseNotable Point
- Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat31:27Cold War service and the Gulf of Sidra engagementsChapter
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:11If the Arnhem bridges were heldQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:54A renewed Anglo-Japanese alliance links NATO to the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:05:09Would a British-Japanese alliance grow into a Pacific NATO?Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22:51Britain remains the Gulf's external security guarantorQ&A
- Britains Obsession with Supersonic Harriers13:34Rolling V/STOL launches for Cold War fleet defenseChapter
- Britains Obsession with Supersonic Harriers23:09NATO pursued V/STOL to escape vulnerable fixed air basesChapter
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:06:05Interwar Italian warships served deep into the Cold WarQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:10:10What made the postwar Dutch Dolfijn class distinctive?Q&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:33:54When Russian and Soviet naval power peakedQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:58Submarine anti-aircraft missiles and disputed Soviet installationsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:10Why the F-22's intended peer opponent never appearedQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:57Reading Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War in contextQ&A
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List51:10Eugeniusz Plawski helps build and preserve the Polish NavyChapter
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:59Carrier battle groups on NATO's northern flankQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:01The Cold War pattern behind an Irn-Bru camouflage jokeQ&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty42:03Why declarations that major war has ended keep recurringNotable Point
- General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!1:15:00Modern destroyer development and the danger of design by committeeNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!50:44How navies learned to preserve mothball fleetsQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:35:48Cimarron-class oilers as fleet workhorsesQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:37:14How jumboization enlarged the Cimarron oilersQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?0:58Peer competition reopens the battleship questionChapter
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:57:23Exercise Ardent and the postwar air-defense testQ&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live42:23Cold War asymmetry removed battleships and flattened naval signalingChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:54:40Missiles and Cold War asymmetry ended the battleship eraNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:44How NATO priorities reshaped British force structureNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:55Were FRAM destroyers really frigates?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:48Why 1959 looked like a year of maximum Soviet dangerQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:16Italian naval aviation with American surplus carriersQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:23Why Italy declined surplus American carriersQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:38Why navies revisited the armored cruiser in the missile ageQ&A
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command58:58Eric Brind demonstrates controlled naval diplomacy at TsingtaoChapter
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:17Postwar defence cuts and the Korean WarNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:25:53Battleship gun drills as Cold War signalingQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:56British tanks and narrow accounts of World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:41A strategically autonomous Cold War Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:45Carrier battle groups against Soviet bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:56Did expected carrier losses mean ships sunk or disabled?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:47:17Sea Slug and the early missile-development sprintQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:43:16Why the late twentieth century saw few fleet battlesQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise54:27Royal Navy plans for threats around Suez after 1945Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:37:34NATO escalation after Soviet chemical warfareQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:36:30How long Littorio-class battleships might serve after 1945Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:39:31Was a large VLS battery worth adding to the Iowa class?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:40:41Why heavy naval guns appealed for defending northern NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:11:08Why nuclear-powered escorts accompanied carrier sprintsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:27:42Why Washington opposed Canadian nuclear submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:31:05Why Cold War power projection came in different scalesQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:10:44Post-war Danube missions and the limits of later fightingNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership19:18The limited leverage of a Cold War blockade of the Soviet UnionQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:45:53Cold War plans to continue government and war after nuclear attackQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:51:27The military and imperial strains of a Franco-British unionQ&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:47:49When did the US Navy overtake the Royal Navy in size?Q&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?45:48Carrier battle groups push toward Soviet bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:23:37Why Britain prioritized the Army of the RhineQ&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:12:08Imperial infrastructure and the limits of historical expertiseNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 553:06Deterrence and patrols are difficult naval work to make visibleNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:28:22A demonstrated VLS reload is not yet a sustained capabilityNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 322:11How peacetime carrier experience developedNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:16:06A larger Soviet surface-raiding fleet in the 1950sQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:35:15Why West Germany's navy operated Starfighters and TornadosQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:43:50Why surveillance ships rely on distance and layered protectionQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:56:48A postwar Sovetsky Soyuz keeps battleships relevantQ&A
- The Monroe Doctrine: The Myth, The Legend, The Rhetoric, The Reality!1:14:50The doctrine became a Cold War traditionChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:12:06German supply limits complicate a Soviet-collapse counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:34:15Why early Cold War planners tested jet flying boatsQ&A
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality1:59:03The Cold War turned exclusion into an ideological testChapter
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...24:42Kynda and Kresta cruisers as specialized missile shipsQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...54:38Electronic warfare did not disappear behind stealthQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:40:31Why the RAF needed the E-3 Sentry rather than a land-based HawkeyeQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:41:05How tactical nuclear use at sea could escalateQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:32:08Power projection exists below global policingQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:48:12Why navies deferred the low end of the fleetQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:39:52Why the A-12 Avenger II never escaped the Cold WarQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/431:52An Allied Japan would preserve mixed carrier and capital-ship fleetsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/455:00Building a Malta-class carrier instead of HMS VanguardQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:11:47Britain pursued its own FRAM-like destroyer conversionsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:50:20Why breaching Soviet SSBN bastions risks nuclear escalationQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:58:06A British Alaska would reshape Canada and Pacific strategyQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:03:35Royal Navy submarines were the first answer to Kirov groupsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:58:39Why a secret Cold War submarine sinking is hard to concealQ&A
- Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 146:00Sea Furies served on both sides of the Cold WarNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast23:15An all-gun cruiser group against Soviet escortsQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast2:01:52Three-inch guns before close-in weapon systemsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:43:02A 1980s naval war teaches only through its specific lossesQ&A
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:22:26An Atlantic carrier navy as a diplomatic instrumentNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:25:27How authoritarian institutions can preserve bad informationNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:29:52A four-carrier replacement cycle for the 1980sChapter
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:34:02A defensive carrier for reinforcing northern NorwayNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:47:32Use V/STOL fighters to launch air defense fasterNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:49:29Merchant ships as distributed fighter basesNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 12:25:26CV(A)-01 and the cost of abandoning a distinctive NATO roleNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:19:51Soviet capital-ship cancellations and the cost of hunting a StalingradQ&A
- The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 108:01Vigilantes deployed across successive US supercarrier generationsNotable Point
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1082:47:08Civil war could remake Japan's Cold War alignmentChapter
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers1:00:28Ulyanovsk for bastion defence and distant diversionChapter
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:00:06A long-lived Shackleton airframe still needs modern mission systemsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...4:03:12Suez without American intervention creates too many second-order effectsQ&A
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!45:50Cold War prestige versus specialized warshipsNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!50:28Finding the good-enough warshipNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song26:44Soviet raiding doctrine as a diversion from the decisive theatreQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:23:52Why 1950s Darings suit a 1950s Soviet-war scenarioQ&A
- Vought F 8 Crusader: The Cold War Corgi! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 94:14Long service and Cuban Missile Crisis reconnaissanceNotable Point
- Vought F 8 Crusader: The Cold War Corgi! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 95:17An engine-centred airframe and its upgrade limitsNotable Point
- Vought F 8 Crusader: The Cold War Corgi! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 940:21The Crusader in French carrier serviceChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!3:20A carrier programme spanning 26 years and several strategic erasNotable Point
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:09:35Why retain Baltimore and Des Moines cruisers?Q&A
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:05:39Why carriers returned to the Soviet defensive systemChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:09:29British landings in Norway and Soviet threat perceptionsNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....54:45The Grumman Guardian's hunter-killer pairsQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....2:41:49Why Iowa did not regain nuclear shellsQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:07:37If the United States built Iowas, Alaskas, and MontanasQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...5:36Postwar naval aid as an alliance bargainQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall46:15What would put F-14 Tomcats in Royal Navy service?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:27:14The intended CVA-01 escort groupQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:24:04Why the next U.S. attack submarine may resemble SeawolfQ&A
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin22:20Peacetime demand, reserves, and nuclear carrier upkeepChapter
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:05:55Why postwar navies kept testing 6- and 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:35:32Why the Iowas could not serve indefinitelyQ&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage0:00A World War II generation designs a Cold War carrierChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage54:57Nimitz enters Cold War crisis managementChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage58:50Carrier numbers threaten Soviet bastionsNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:04:04East of Suez was not chiefly about avoiding VietnamQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:38:32The best 1960s Royal Navy program starts in the 1940sQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:21:20No Soviet-built Indonesian fleet under continued Dutch ruleQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:38:36A foreign-built late-Cold-War Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:42:36Foreign carrier designs and American operating requirementsNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat34:11How the GUPPY program reshaped surviving American fleet boatsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat35:50Britain's experimental bridge to postwar submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat51:21FRAM refits as a bridge to Cold War frigate doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:06:16Why wartime US destroyer escorts were not called frigatesQ&A
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier13:30Cold War acoustic intelligence and the silent serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!57:44Why South Africa might want Victor B.2 aircraftQ&A
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...28:38Saratoga signals American interest during Mediterranean crisesNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...41:15How Britain would evaluate Kamov helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...46:21Type 41 and Type 61 frigates as high-threat escortsQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:10:01Why five-inch guns dominate rapid naval fireQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:47:36Ticonderoga's CIC layout and Cold War cruiser labelNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:24:32South African Victors and nuclear deliveryQ&A
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign59:56How bad geography can persist into strategic targetingNotable Point
- Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage19:48Wartime rearmament and Cold War survivabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!54:40More Midway-class carriers trade Essex longevity for growthQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:40:53Why Britain did not widely adopt coastal missile batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:27:36Western response to a large Soviet cruiser programQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:46:21Postwar rearmament without working nuclear weaponsQ&A
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 120:43Midway as a Cold War carrier testbedChapter
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 124:43Operation Mainbrace tested NATO's Atlantic commandNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 125:44Seventh Fleet cover for a Taiwan Strait evacuationNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 126:23A Cape Town port-call dispute over apartheidNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 134:41Carrier power behind Operation Paul BunyanNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 135:52Gulf War service and the preserved carrier legacyNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement38:01Procurement risk after the Cold WarNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 323:29Why the Bearcat never gained a wartime reputationNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 327:42Climb performance meets a changing interception problemChapter
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 332:41Bearcat performance complicated the Navy's jet narrativeNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 334:01Foreign service and air racing kept the Bearcat usefulNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 335:17Naval aviation kept its purpose while technology changed the methodChapter
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast7:27Operation Sandblast as invisible naval presenceChapter
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:56:42An Allied Japan reshapes the early Cold WarQ&A
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 20:00The E-1 Tracer is a forgotten transitional aircraftChapter
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 21:36Transitional systems expose gaps in popular naval historyNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World23:22The submerged journey becomes the public achievementNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World36:25Triton's shakedown becomes Operation SandblastChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:43:00Secret orders, Polaris research, and submerged presenceChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:49:27Edward L. Beach and the risk of SandblastChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:08:04Sandblast advertises endurance and audits naval securityChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:18:01Beach dedicates Triton's voyage to the American peopleNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:22:44Unproven technology, public funding, and Triton's riskNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:33:37Why early postwar frigates kept plain frigate labelsQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:34:18Italian naval aviation without the fixed-wing restrictionQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:36:34Why France accepted a one-carrier nuclear fleetQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:04:26Why Royal Navy aircraft left blue-and-white paintQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:34:57A British 1980s modernization for HMS VanguardQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:48:49The Cold War case for Italy retaining battleshipsQ&A
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons39:59French independence inside NATO carrier operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:50:53The Romanovs in Commonwealth exileQ&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:15:09Would Battenberg prepare plans for unlikely wars?Q&A
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions49:09The Falklands War broke Britain's alliance-planning assumptionChapter
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions1:04:05Atlantic Conveyor's aircraft-ferry role and wartime lossChapter
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions1:19:08Why aviation conversions recurred across three warsNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?3:41:37Why exported Cold War warships can keep British records closedQ&A
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)43:34Gannet patrols made long-range ASW a form of operational deterrenceChapter
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:58:24Soviet battleships in 1950 revive Western capital-ship buildingQ&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:57:06Prewar treaty practice could shape postwar arms controlNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 51:00:30Novorossiysk in Soviet service and the 1955 explosionChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books22:21How a habitable mirror planet could accelerate spaceflightQ&A
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues35:58How interwar decisions created a branching lineageNotable Point
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues59:14Squadron patches as a living aviator identityNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!25:53Sverdlov construction could have triggered a postwar cruiser raceQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:03:20Today's Royal Navy carries Cold War commitments with far fewer shipsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:44:34A 1943 Allied victory would favor Malta carriers and completed LionsQ&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 Answered2:42:24Why the XB-70 would not inherit the B-52's longevityQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:52:12Why interwar carrier doctrine diverged more than Cold War practiceNotable Point
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...36:02The Audacious-class Ark Royal as a Cold War centerpieceChapter
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...48:43Carrier air defence from Condors to BearsNotable Point
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...49:35The short-war assumption behind Britain's carrier gapChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered43:19How quickly the United States could build twelve strike cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered47:19Cold War weapons that could sink a battleshipQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:23:06Mature helicopters change postwar escort choicesNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:47:22Cold War amphibious ships were designed around acceptable riskNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books53:59What a surviving G3 could do in the Cold War BalticQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:55:56What a much larger US diesel-submarine fleet would requireQ&A
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI6:02Why modern naval thinking discounts reserve shipsNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI20:40Reserve mobilisation deters war and adds convoy depthNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?20:23Older escorts still matter in secondary theatersNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!15:11Bligh and Codrington in a modern navyQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:39:09Geography constrains a non-nuclear US-Soviet war after the naval phaseQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:47:00Postwar large naval guns refined more than they reinventedQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:48:31Cold War cruisers favored 5-inch dual-purpose guns over automatic 8-inch weaponsQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:47:09How a peace dividend left aggressors room to actQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:05:23What navalized merchant construction actually meantNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:31:08Nuclear stalemate makes limited-war control more importantNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response6:09How Stalingrad might prolong Western gunshipsNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response12:45The escalation problem with nuclear anti-ship weaponsQ&A
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response14:04A hybrid gun-and-missile Stalingrad counterfactualNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response14:39Why wartime weapons do not erase peacetime naval presenceNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response15:47Would Stalin have based nuclear missiles in Cuba?Q&A
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response22:16A NATO command cruiser as the peacetime answerNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response25:03Why Soviet cancellation weakened the case for battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:59:35The Vulcan was poorly suited to maritime patrolQ&A
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?6:44Stalin's death ended the battleship rivalryChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:37:39What postwar battleship thinking remainedQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:22:26Were battleships obsolete after 1945?Q&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:26:42What changed in the Mark VIII Mod 4 torpedoQ&A
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett12:08Why the post-Cold War peace assumption failedChapter
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett30:23Strategic materials can require concealed procurementNotable Point
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 240:34Space made the Towns adaptable presence shipsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 242:35Cold War bipolarity masked the need for presence shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare41:36A post-Cold War role for Violet Friend missile defenceQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:24:18Naval forces in a world without nuclear weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:13:38Montanas would likely survive into the Cold War reserveQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:43:19A different post-war balance after Anglo-Japanese victoryQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series12:05Why a US invasion of Cuba would not automatically break NATOQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series36:45Why a recovered Soviet Union could still produce a Cold WarQ&A
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner0:01Cold War theory and the memory of world warChapter
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner2:19Higher Cold War spending did not guarantee better procurementNotable Point
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner13:50How bipolar competition narrowed military rolesChapter
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner21:20The limits of a one-size-fits-all geopolitical theoryNotable Point
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner1:03:05Norway plans that assumed the ships would not returnNotable Point
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner1:08:46When a target list stood in for strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:37:41Could a merchant ship secretly land a large raiding force?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:08:21How postwar needs magnified German industrial mythsNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics9:29Iceland's leverage in a three-way Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:06:12A three-way Cold War without NATO or the UNQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!40:24Why Green Cheese would not uniquely alarm Soviet plannersQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:15:27The grim logic of a nuclear anti-aircraft missileQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:19:44Would longer-ranged British missiles change Cold War targeting?Q&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:48:40Why an air-launched Polaris would be difficultQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:37:10Why nuclear espionage cannot be reduced to one groupNotable Point
- CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 115:03Strike range as pressure on Soviet fleet developmentNotable Point
- CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 122:49Cancellation did not end the supercarrier ideaChapter
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:48:25A U.S.-Soviet naval war during KoreaQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer48:54Six Vanguards and three derivative carriers in the Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:15:07Turning Lord Nelson into a Cold War patrol shipQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:25:21Exercise Sunrise exposes carrier limits in bad weatherNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:26:34Atomic-bomb dispersal competes with anti-submarine protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:29:35Exercise Verity brings Western Union navies togetherNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:37:13An atomic-free counterfactual starts with Japan and Soviet supply limitsQ&A
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:07:19How a rival could revive battleship constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:09:04Early range-finding radar needed substantial equipmentQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:16:26Dipping sonar evolved from earlier experimentsQ&A
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response17:00How the post-Cold War drawdown shed nuclear expertiseNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response33:44The post-Cold War case against retiring nuclear cruisersQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!32:57Why early missile ships kept their gunsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!52:24HMAS Arunta's postwar service and final lossChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response0:28SALT limits and Royal Navy force structureQ&A
- Albany Class: Comment Response0:31Why convert old cruisers after World War II?Q&A
- Albany Class: Comment Response19:23Why early missile cruisers need system-by-system analysisNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney24:05Why postwar Truman policy would not abolish American sea powerQ&A
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 47:21Why official carrier speed figures need cautionNotable Point
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response37:51Reading nuclear fear in postwar artNotable Point
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response42:56Why the nuclear cruisers left serviceQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane32:11Postwar debt and British naval retrenchmentQ&A
- Kara Class: Comment Response17:13Cold War airfield vulnerability behind British V/STOLNotable Point
- Kara Class: Comment Response17:58NATO reinforcement needs behind the Sea HarrierNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses40:42The postwar ten-year programme and global reachChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses45:24Keeping the Malta class as a postwar reserve optionNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses47:24The industrial pressure behind the postwar building paceNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses48:02How a stronger Soviet fleet could reshape NATO commitmentsNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses50:37A more maritime NATO instead of an Army-of-the-Rhine focusNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat59:28A standardized triple 6-inch gun in the Cold War Royal NavyQ&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 Chat2:08:04What a standardized 1950s NATO fleet might borrowQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:24:30What an early British hydrogen bomb would changeQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:19:21Why a postwar Japan pact points toward the Soviet threatQ&A
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation9:14Why postwar battleship construction stoppedNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation55:21Why postwar missions favoured aircraft carriersNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?2:12:03Reading a Cold War naval book as historical evidenceNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198014:11Setting a conventional 1980 GIUK Gap warChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198021:37Why Brezhnev leads the Soviet sideQ&A
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:08:41A resource-seizure motive for war in NorwayChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:30:20Norway's terrain turns warning into combat powerChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:38:31Ballistic-missile reach and nuclear ambiguityNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:58:11NATO's conventional advantage and Soviet industrial resilienceChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19802:01:47The GIUK Gap as a two-way strategic funnelNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)8:13Where does the title Red Storm Rising come from?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)52:18Why Britain's 1980 strength needs more than a decline narrativeNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)54:04How SOSUS evolved into a North Atlantic surveillance networkQ&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:24:29NATO's northern flank and the Atlantic reinforcement problemChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:59:14Were Ticonderoga-class cruisers available in 1980?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:12:01Setting the May 1980 limited-war scenarioChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:21:03Why the B-52 remains the American heavy bomber in 1980Chapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:33:25Pre-war positioning without triggering the warNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:33:43Why Soviet reserve stockpiles were more useful in 1980Notable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:34:42How would the Walker spy ring affect SOSUS in 1980?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:37:20A conventional NATO edge and the danger of escalationChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)4:04:22What can traffic analysis reveal without breaking codes?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)9:18X-craft and post-war nuclear minelayingQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:36:52If Britain were larger and 34 miles farther westQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword18:06Second World War veterans in Cold War reservesQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition23:17NATO as deterrence and alliance managementNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:53:22Missile submarines bring launch sites inside the air-defense perimeterNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:54:27Ballistic-missile submarines and the deterrent value of hidingChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:58:07Cold War submarine losses turn the seabed into an intelligence targetNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:59:03PNS Ghazi and the difficulty of attributing a submarine lossNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century2:01:47Los Angeles class: nuclear attack submarines come of ageNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:42:39The U.S. occupation crisis in Korea, 1947Chapter
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:18:30If Anglo-American atomic cooperation had continuedQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak3:30:42KAL 007, route errors, and civilian GPS accessQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts32:10Soviet blue-water fleet and Britain's NATO roleQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History7:12Aircraft that kept flying after their pilots ejectedNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History11:43American anti-imperialism and the institutions left by decolonizationNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:23:51Soviet battleships and NATO's capital-ship reactionQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6534:01Soviet electronics and command-economy incentivesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6540:00Project 23 could prolong Western missile capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions9:26K-129's missile could expose Soviet engineering and targetingQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions46:02Project Azorian weighed intelligence against escalation riskQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain15:28Pigeons, chickens, and dogs entered military systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain2:02:46Soviet naval strategy joined nuclear missions to a long conventional warChapter
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain2:43:25Carrier victory did not make battleship choices obvious in advanceChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers30:11Cold War cruiser politics and the 1974 cruiser gapNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All10:18Why the strike-cruiser case collapsed after the Cold WarNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed9:59The peace dividend changed what counted as too expensiveNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed20:04A balanced fleet complicates the enemy's problemNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed21:48The Panama Canal was a strategic-mobility vulnerabilityNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed29:27Kirov exposed the politics behind cruiser comparisonsNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed34:17Operation Sea Orbit demonstrated global nuclear reachNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed35:34Decolonization gave naval presence political weightChapter
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed42:20Nuclear cruisers raised the stakes of naval presenceNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed1:06:04Peer threats determine whether expensive capability looks necessaryChapter
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed1:08:15Pyotr Velikiy carried the nuclear-cruiser story into 2022Notable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...25:46Standard missile range meets Cold War nuclear doctrineNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...27:10Belknap at the Malta SummitNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...31:33Wainwright links a naval family to two combat erasNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...34:35Jouett carries a Civil War name into the PacificNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...41:48Standley links naval leadership, diplomacy, and Vietnam serviceNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...46:41Biddle links the Continental Navy to Desert StormNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...50:26Truxtun joins Enterprise in nuclear surface operationsChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...59:51Truxtun tests nuclear power in anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen1:32Destroyer leaders became cruisers on paperChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen32:37Leahy served as a modernized command shipChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen38:18Cold War presence without the expected battleNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen41:31Worden survived a Shrike friendly-fire strikeNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen48:44Richmond K. Turner shifted from training to surveillanceNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen54:09Halsey trained at the Pacific Missile RangeNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen57:06Bainbridge made Sea Orbit a nuclear status demonstrationChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)2:19Gun-cruiser groups could threaten Soviet battlecruisersNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)10:15Albany moved from gun-cruiser diplomacy to missile prestigeChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)13:25Columbus exposes an uneven conversion learning curveChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)15:00Chicago repaid a slow conversion with heavy serviceChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)16:10Red Crown turned Chicago into an air-control nodeChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:03:44When did the Soviet Navy reach peak effectiveness?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:03:36Cold War geography traps the Baltic and Black Sea fleetsChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:06:47Gorshkov designed ships to win influence before warChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:26:26How command-economy problems enter the argument for Soviet expansionNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:28:10SSBNs insured both nuclear retaliation and the navy's statusChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:37:09Mutual retaliation could leave room for a longer conventional warNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:42:05Why did the Soviet Navy appear cautious about overseas bases?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19914:16:44Did cost alone explain the move away from nuclear cruisers?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19914:30:49How is the Soviet reaction to Able Archer 83 interpreted?Q&A
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?34:34Osa point defense reflects Soviet procurement limitsNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?44:25Ukraina shows the class's Cold War afterlifeNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?9:54Black Sea constraint and Pacific carrier escort splitChapter
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?22:41Why the Mediterranean demanded a higher-tier Soviet cruiserChapter
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?38:43How Kara escorts made a weak carrier a credible task groupChapter
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?41:20Nuclear armament did not erase the conventional escalation ladderNotable Point
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...17:50Talos and the nuclear solution to uncertain targetingNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:19:43How an invasion could divide Japan and constrain BritainQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?6:05Why the late Soviet Navy was builtChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?8:47Command economics behind Soviet naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?11:40Resources and the cost of competing with Western financeNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?13:19The space race and changing the test of prestigeNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?14:29Surface raiders and submarine dilemmasNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?19:50Friendly neutrals and supplies for a long warNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?22:26Papa-class speed and the Spearfish responseChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?36:42Kiev's cruiser, command, and aviation rolesChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?43:20Kirov as a prestige capital ship beside SlavaChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?53:09Typhoon and Delta as status procurementNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:12:03Kirov's political pressure and the Iowa responseNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:19:14Naval strategy as procurement strategyChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:08Why outside pressure over Vietnam faced Cold War constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...9:37OPEC and the risks of pressuring the United StatesQ&A
- 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...34:41American oil production and Canadian importsNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:54:13Regimental identity in the 4th Royal Tank RegimentChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:33:14Allied unity and an American us-or-them outlookQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:58:30The limits of an American embargo against alliesQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6546:26Whiskey-class submarines as Soviet test bedsChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6550:10Western naval technology exposed a Soviet prestige gapNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6552:36Political risk encouraged iterative ship and weapons developmentChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6557:05Big guns remained legible tools of Cold War presenceNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:02:17Fear distorted information and succession after StalinNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:06:33Kuznetsov's fall opened a thirty-year Gorshkov eraChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:14:03Gorshkov's Kirov concept made presence part of deterrenceNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:20:05The November class paired prestige with early nuclear riskChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:23:24Postwar destroyers traded refinement for reproducible quantityNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:25:08Whiskey SSGNs turned harbour defence into a resource trapNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:29:36The Cuban Missile Crisis exposed a Soviet surface-fleet gapChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:33:01Kresta II grew within the politics of de-StalinizationChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:34:19Soviet radars evolved by adapting proven technology for salt waterNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:37:20Visible armament helped Soviet ships fight the peaceNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:41:56Four fleet phases connect the wartime navy to global presenceChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style0:02From Kynda to Kresta after 1961-63Chapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style2:19Khrushchev's status fleet meets affordability limitsNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style5:38Cuba exposes the need for organic blue-water capabilitiesChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style10:01Missile-control limits drive the next design stepNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style11:36Political limits shape Gorshkov's naval caseNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style26:01Admiral Zozoulia's long working careerNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style40:01Kresta II in North Atlantic ASW operationsNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style48:05Senior leaders inspect Admiral Makarov at BaltiyskNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style57:33Marshal Voroshilov carries Kresta II into the PacificNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy0:15Project 58 and Gorshkov's ascentChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy3:38De-Stalinization and the danger of reusable coercionNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy10:58Missile reach and maritime pressureNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy30:01A visible cruiser as political pressureNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy49:05Kynda's blue-water raider rationaleChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy54:37Atlantic reinforcement after the opening daysNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:49:15Were early Soviet nuclear submarines unusually unsafe?Q&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:21:41How overseas basing expanded Soviet naval aviationChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:40:33How threatening were the Moskva-class helicopter cruisers?Q&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response0:28Sverdlov and the limits of reading later doctrine backwardChapter
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response2:00How nuclear short-war assumptions weakened logistical planningNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response5:08Why continued Sverdlov construction suggests a practical naval purposeNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response13:27How Soviet bastion doctrine changed over the Cold WarNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response47:00The 1954 Indochina claim and the question of declaring warQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response48:05American pressure and the pace of the Suez operationNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response1:01:47How short-war assumptions narrowed Britain's maritime commitmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...51:00HMS London prepares to respond to the Amethyst crisisNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:09:45Why Type 82 destroyers might replace the Type 42sQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers27:54Finding a Sverdlov across the oceans was a strategic problem of its ownNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers32:51Sverdlov's guns as visible instruments of Soviet diplomacyChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers55:23Ordzhonikidze and the unresolved Lionel Crabb espionage caseChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:19:24October Revolution paired Project 68A modernization with repeated presence missionsNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:25:21The Sverdlov threat shaped Western strike-aircraft and fleet planningNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books0:43Testing the Butler-Johnson Cuban bus storyQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:35:08An early British ballistic-missile submarine forceQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:11:09Why NATO assumptions did not rescue Cold War warship designQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:18:48Can gunboat diplomacy survive modern weapons?Chapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:56:19Why Britain's battleships disappeared after the warQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History1:00:47The short nuclear war assumption reshapes Cold War shipsChapter
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response25:29Why an American-backed coup in Britain was implausibleQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:37:31Postwar fleets designed around missing capabilityChapter
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:12:37Alliance consequences of a covert attack at seaQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:20:07A mistaken CIA bombing inside an allianceQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:02:44Why Alan Pope's near-miss on HMS Oryx matteredQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:03:32Suez recast the Anglo-American relationshipQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video44:07Why long counterfactual chains become fragileQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:39:11The argument that industrial warfare never went awayQ&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?3:01:03A different postwar naval balanceNotable Point
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace41:06The Cold War lens understates early Soviet cruiser valueNotable Point
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1137:32Why reserve warships still matter in a long warNotable Point
- Duca D'Aosta Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina6:40The 'Undefeated Duke' and the Italian Third ArmyChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:04:51Why British submarine successes faded from public memoryQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:09:36Project Habakkuk as an Atlantic sea baseQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:00:44A prosperous 1950 Britain with Malta-class carriersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:35:37How many Seawolf-class submarines should have been built?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out34:09Improvements that might have prolonged Sea Vixen serviceQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:04:29What a Cold War German carrier might look likeQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:16:22A starting book for CVA-01Q&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading28:34Whole-warship theft after the Cherbourg boatsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading44:45How Soviet battlecruisers could reshape Western fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:01:49Modern US bases appearing in 1950Q&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:05:11How long Stalingrad-class ships might have servedQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:51:01Tiger's powerful but troublesome 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:57:24British capital-ship responses to Soviet battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading3:06:21A possible 1980s Aegis refit for the Alaska classQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:00:52A nuclear CVA-01 pair from the 1970s to the 2010sQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:11:07Kirov as the political case for retaining VanguardQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:17:33A fifth NATO battleship for Atlantic surface groupsQ&A
- Offset Strategies One to Four6:03The first offset: nuclear weapons against Soviet massChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)0:00Why the Soviet Navy built the Kirov classChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)25:10Kirov in Cold War naval fictionNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)22:45How the Cold War pushed navies toward total warshipsQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)25:27The post-Cold-War assumptions behind Germany's F125Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:20:34Adapting a 1942 light fleet carrier for the Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:44:24Warsaw Pact T-72 production and export compromisesChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:48:01The T-80 gas turbine's performance and logistical priceChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:04:44Why grey-zone warfare changes the OPV armament questionQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)4:15Disarmament, balance, and deterrenceChapter
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)35:01Vidal, helicopter surveying, and the claim to RockallChapter
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)39:45Why an isolated Rockall mattered in the Cold WarNotable Point
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:45:26HMS Vidal, Rockall, and strategic maritime presenceChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)41:21Reassessing the postwar British submarine fleetChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)43:31Long-range strike submarines and interservice rivalryNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)43:56Albacore, Barbel, and Britain's limited design capacityNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)45:55Early sea-based missile concepts under uncertaintyNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature2:52:51The M60 guide turns technical specification into modelling evidenceNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:46:19Why an armed orbital platform creates a first-mover problemQ&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:32:37Destroying Carthage removed Rome's nearby naval benchmarkNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:25:01How Malta-class carriers might have sustained naval aviationQ&A
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)48:43Why Scapa Flow receded after 1945Notable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:30:56Why the fleet left, and what Scapa Flow still doesChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:39:29When French and Italian navies gained Hedgehog-style ASW weaponsQ&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)2:52:59A Franco-British union as a third centre of powerQ&A
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)1:16:09The Cold War problem of a fleeting nuclear release windowNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue44:58Why attacking a nuclear force can accelerate escalationNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:18:42A stronger postwar fleet still needs a new missile cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:18:18Gorshkov's writings as Cold War naval readingChapter
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:20:32Three hindsight choices in the Suez CrisisQ&A
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:50:57HMS Vanguard's usefulness in 1944 and after the warQ&A
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)53:46The danger of building forces for only a short warNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books10:54The Cold War as continuing great-power politicsNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:31:10Toss bombing, Sverdlov cruisers, and the nuclear thresholdQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)1:27:18Why established powers fall behindNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:26:55What an eighty-frigate Royal Navy would changeQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:37:30A surviving British Commonwealth in the Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:05:09If CVA-01 became a nuclear carrier classQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:30:01Counting the Soviet Navy's submarine classesQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:52:17How submarines and surface groups divided Soviet missionsQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:26:42Kirov class and a one-salvo fleet fightChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)34:18Ariadne from Norway to the PacificNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)54:43Nuclear shells for the Des Moines classQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...3:35:19Why the United States did not welcome Britain's CATOBAR retreatQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?41:41Why a Malta-class carrier might have lasted into the Cold WarNotable Point
- The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol7:28Great-power capacity is more than wealth on paperNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov3:47:03Why read Gorshkov during the Cold War?Q&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)1:08:51Q&A: treaties can deter one war and displace anotherQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat4:15The Pepsi Navy story in contextQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:56:50Why the Blackburn Buccaneer suited naval strikeQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:49:19British defence spending and the NATO central frontNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:28:22Could the Violet Friend missile-defence project have worked?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:43:40Why did Cold War weapon proposals become so extreme?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:15:08How stronger finances could change Britain's Cold War roleQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:31:20Why superpowers do not follow one learning curveQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)4:12:42The 1957 Defence White Paper's short-war assumptionQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/428:53Empire, capital, and Japan’s strategic assumptionsQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War3:12Whiskey-class numbers revive the Atlantic escort problemChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War7:20Why diesel submarines remain a difficult anti-submarine targetNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War11:44The mass submarine threat behind postwar shipbuildingNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War13:26Whiskey-class torpedoes and the mining optionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:42:14Testing claims about Soviet funding of civil rightsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out5:06Postwar fleets lacked a battleship threat to answerNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out8:43Fast submarines still had to find the convoyNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out9:08Escalation constrained tactical nuclear weaponsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out9:57Deterrence changed what major weapons were forNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory9:53Cold War fleets still needed mobile workshopsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory18:28Falklands improvisation exposed a Cold War repair gapNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:25:33Cold War nuclear assumptions and carrier debateChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:36:28Britain's limited role in the Cuban Missile CrisisQ&A
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper2:04Defence spending as a political priorityChapter
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper17:51BAOR strength subject to foreign-exchange supportNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books55:06Canada's Cold War anti-submarine specializationQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:30:32Following British Cold War submarine designNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:41:16Chevaline and the Resolution-class deterrentNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:46:43Longer-term deterrent options and the limits on French cooperationNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:14:51Cold War deterrence and fewer direct warsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:53:39Suez as a turning point rather than an instant collapseQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:46:34Vanguard over Hood for a later missile-era fightQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:39:32Nuclear deterrence and Soviet logistics after 1945Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?33:41How a NATO reserve fleet might preserve Cold War warshipsQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)30:12How Malta-sized carriers could have changed the Cold War fleetQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)1:50:06Did small carriers push the Royal Navy toward narrower roles?Q&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?10:53Setting the rules for a conventional 1986 Atlantic warChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?22:13Why the Northern Fleet anchors the 1986 Soviet naval threatNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?47:07A Soviet anti-satellite system based on a killer satelliteQ&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:11:24Would the Soviet Union respect Swedish neutrality?Q&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:33:58How quickly would reserve fleets return to service?Q&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:52:51Would a conventional Cold War naval campaign stay non-nuclear?Q&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers48:59When credible ASW torpedoes arrivedQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:22:03The postwar cruiser needed a new purposeNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:40:22Sverdlov was built to win the presence warNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:47:54British influence on Sverdlov was limitedQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda39:59Gambia mixes British and American fire-control systemsNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda45:01Bermuda's refit supports Cold War fleet diplomacyNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World0:38The Royal Navy's 1980s mission setChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World37:50Early Soviet missile development and naval adaptationChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World41:55Why Cold War anti-ship missiles still matterNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World47:47Domestic politics in strategic decision-makingNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed10:58NATO's Atlantic lifeline and the Soviet blue-water challengeChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed31:02How large was the Soviet submarine fleet in 1980?Q&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy7:29The Soviet Northern Fleet combines scale with serious constraintsChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan26:55Why NATO depended on Atlantic sea lanesChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:00:39How nuclear propulsion changed submarine strategyQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:49:46What did the 350-submarine Soviet total mean?Q&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:44:10Why a Royal Navy visit to China became a point of orderQ&A
- Four Random Books 25: On a Precipe6:08Cabinet caution during Operation FootNotable Point
- Four Random Books 25: On a Precipe13:59The three strategic circles of the 1958 Lebanon interventionNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 16963:26How nuclear deterrence reshaped escalation choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations17:13James Cable as a Cold War naval theoristNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:50:11Thatcher's defense of Suharto's economic recordChapter
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword9:08A defense buildup can stimulate technology without requiring a warNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword36:39Norway-focused planning left a Falklands helicopter-control gapNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History1:55:30What should the Royal Navy have changed after the Falklands War?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History3:29:59A contemporary guide to the late Soviet NavyChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History3:32:33Ivan Rogov combines beaching, docking, helicopters, and heavy weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History3:40:50How might Western Cold War fleets better counter the Soviet Navy?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History3:46:21Kirov-class ships, submarine threats, and a naval arms-race counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:09:45Why outside powers can misread Turkey's prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:18:27Nuclear deterrence and restraint between major powersNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:20:15Why the Cold War could look peaceful from Western EuropeQ&A
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy17:14From bipolar Cold War order to a more complex presence missionNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy29:42Cruiser diplomacy between routine presence and a battle fleetChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:09:52Why the Royal Navy moved from CATOBAR to STOVLQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:32:54If Project Habakkuk's pykrete carriers had workedNotable Point
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"1:53:53How might the Soviet Union exploit an Anglo-American war?Q&A
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:50:38Did battleship-building capacity vanish by the 1960s?Q&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"45:25Why Britain still wanted a Pacific fleet after 1945Notable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:06:54Why the modern Royal Navy has fewer carriersQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:24:50Surface raiders could tie down carrier groupsChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:27:23Soviet raiders mattered even without many sinkingsQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection34:50How Britain sought an American commitment to Western EuropeChapter
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:03:52Should a Type 23 frigate be preserved?Q&A
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)2:22What would make Suez become a wider war?Chapter
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)4:21Egyptian priorities beyond the Cold WarNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)6:52The Baghdad Pact delivered more than a treatyNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)11:54NATO was still a young institution in 1956Notable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)15:37How Czechoslovak arms complicated the crisisNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)20:00American foreknowledge did not make Nasser an American assetNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)24:52America's dilemma as guarantor of the international orderNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)29:29A Soviet strike could fracture alliance politicsChapter
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)31:28What Moscow could gain by interveningNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)34:24Logistics could stop a European war before victoryNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)41:41War-weary leaders and Britain's succession problemNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)47:57The canal, imperial logistics, and American primacyChapter
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)49:55The Royal Navy's global security role before SuezNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)51:48Military success without Nasser's overthrowNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:36What “Suez Goes Hot” MeansQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty5:17Suez in a Cold War Middle EastChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty21:15Was Washington Still Distracted by Korea?Q&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty26:01Iran Through the CIA and KGB Cold War LensQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty28:14NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Middle EastChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty37:39From the Baghdad Pact to CENTOQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty48:34The Canal as a Strategic LifelineChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty49:42When the CIA Mistook Access for ControlNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty55:26Nasser’s Balancing Strategy and the Aswan DamChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty1:48:42American Sanctions Before American GunfireNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:02:20Why the Soviet Union Might Intervene at SuezChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:06:40Deterrence in the Bomber-Delivery EraQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:12:41From Regional Bomber War to NATO Escalation and SettlementChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:18:32Why a Hot Suez Need Not Go NuclearQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:51:24Cold War Questions Shaped Carrier HistoriesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...49:27How later wars shape the sources historians followNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:05:25A Cold War role for Vanguard in NorwayNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:25:23Cold War defence against Bear bombers and cruise missilesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:38:19A Cold War lesson: give back as good as you getQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:23:44The Soviet quad 57 mm gun and its electronics limitQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:06:08Why land wars can hide naval requirementsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:17What if Britain and France had remained at SuezQ&A
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"3:58Naval diplomacy as a navy's normal workChapter
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"22:44South America and the diplomatic price of absenceNotable Point
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy29:07Choosing a survivable nuclear deterrentNotable Point
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy31:37Nuclear deterrence needs a continuous at-sea postureChapter
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians25:12Gorshkov's naval diplomacy and political strategyNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:43:21How post-war German memoirs rebuilt a military mythNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You7:44Gunboat diplomacy did not end in 1945Chapter
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…39:30Atlantic convoys and Norway in Cold War planningNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…41:27Through-deck cruisers preserved carrier aviationNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A29:41Cold War naval diplomacy in the book stackChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A35:09Studying Cold War air defence at seaChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A38:29A reference work on Soviet naval diplomacyChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A47:15Reading the Soviet Navy through a Cold War reference guideChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:18Where a modernised Iowa might fight in the Cold WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:05Separating Soviet naval potential from realised capabilityNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:08:29The Cold War's overlooked Pacific maritime theatreChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:14:23Gorshkov's global-presence strategyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:09:29Do not project today's Chinese Navy back into the Cold WarQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class30:44A speculative lineage from Henderson to DaringNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class35:16HMS Defender's Formosa Strait patrolChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)20:18Built for a war that ended too soonChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 1 of 313:38Warship appearance as a peacetime signalNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…44:21Leander flexibility and postwar Type designationsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:40Why Britain misread Eisenhower during the Suez CrisisQ&A
- An Introduction to Falklands Command14:20Cold War amphibious command built for casualtiesNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:25:54Why the sloop role declined after 1945Q&A