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- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?48:15Carrier funding still depends on sea trade and politicsNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live33:17A counterfactual change in Pacific command after Pearl HarborQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...4:02:07Admiral King confronts slow shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:37What replacing Beatty before Jutland could changeQ&A
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...18:44Burke and Mitscher's fast-carrier staff partnershipNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:22:18Why King favored British leadership of ABDANotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:21:12How Ernest King might have imposed discipline on ConstellationQ&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?4:56The Atlantic Conference brought together military and civilian leadersChapter
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:52Henderson, Fisher and the discussion of Admiral King's roleQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:06:30Naval patronage built independent officers and long institutional lineagesQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:56:29King's Atlantic carrier allocation and the disputed food-crisis premiseQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...3:50:38British warnings about the Mark 14 torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...3:51:10Did Ernest King dislike all British officers?Q&A
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:02:13World War I service shaped World War II alliances and prejudicesNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...51:49Fleet Problem XIX confirms the vulnerabilityChapter
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?10:30The ambiguous order to form Task Force 34Chapter
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?35:13Communication failure leaves the strait openNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:08:03Victory would protect both Halsey and LeeNotable Point
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?55:24Clear orders and verification as Leyte's lasting lessonChapter
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:03:02An Army troubleshooter fixes the Mark 14 torpedoQ&A
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit0:00Richardson's warning before Pearl HarborChapter
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit36:47Why Richardson's tactful strategy still failed politicallyNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit49:15Richardson's dismissal and the 1941 fleet splitChapter
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit1:01:24Richardson, King, and an alternate Pacific commandNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:38:41Fleet Problem XIX repeated the warning on a Tuesday morningChapter
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:15Judging admirals beyond their worst decisionsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:02Ernest King pushed the Essex-class carrier programQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:57Ernest King would have served the navy placed in his chargeQ&A
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!0:00Ernest King led by assembling expert teamsChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!5:27Torpedoes, staff work, and King's first destroyer commandsChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!15:10A Royal Navy uniform habit became King's trademarkNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!16:09King's thesis linked war to national policyNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!24:57King's naval-training reform struggled to change the bureau systemNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!25:53A store ship led King into logistics and submarinesChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!33:52King and Henderson offer parallel naval-aviation careersNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!37:24Moffett redirected King into naval aviationChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!38:30USS Wright's dual-hatted command revealed organizational strainNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!40:07Aviator-qualification law reshaped naval command careersChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!43:29USS Lexington exposed King to carrier command and Navy politicsChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!48:18King planned against Britain as a worst case and Japan as the likely enemyNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!53:47King expanded aviator training and challenged a fragile supplier baseChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!54:03King's Bureau appointment required political sponsorshipNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!56:41Bureau chiefs contested the CNO's control of naval policyNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:00:03King rehearsed a carrier attack on Pearl HarborChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:02:47Outspokenness sent King to the General Board's sidelinesNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:03:53Civilian allies revived King's stalled careerNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:06:03King designed a fleet-wide anti-aircraft rearmament planNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:08:26King put the Atlantic Fleet on a war footingChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:12:47Atlantic escorts pushed the United States toward open warChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:16:36King combined fleet command with the CNO postNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:17:00King's varied career prepared him for modern global warChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:18:58Pacific war aims explain King's policy toward BritainNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:21:12What if King had commanded the Pacific Fleet before Pearl Harbor?Notable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...35:58American intelligence turns Japan's trap aroundChapter
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:55:07Distance and immature bases constrained the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?43:14Universal guns traded experimentation for logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:56The newspaper report that exposed shallow Japanese depth chargesQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:46World War leaders compared with Warhammer PrimarchsQ&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:23:48Theodore Ropp and the continuing debate over the Jeune ÉcoleNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea40:47How Arctic convoy doctrine recovered after PQ 17Chapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 543:00Sims's letters expose the command dispute behind convoy policyNotable Point
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...0:20Why war with Japan looked different in American politicsChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:11:20Ranger compresses a large air group into a treaty hullChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:15:59Reeves gives King independent carrier task-force commandNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:22:21King carries aviation reform into the personnel bureausNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier20:35Moffett, the Naval Aircraft Factory, and aviation procurementChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier45:47Moffett, King, and the leadership models behind naval aviationChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:21:17Why a working trapeze did not secure the airship programmeNotable Point
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues47:04How aircraft role letters shaped squadron codesChapter
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues55:01Wartime effectiveness despite bureaucratic reorganizationChapter
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 30:03How a Pacific deployment rumor reached Allied leadersChapter
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese49:28Wilson Brown's Task Force 11 command and later influenceChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:16:08Wilson Brown's command career and presidential serviceChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:29:58Why Ernest King formed a poor opinion of BeattyQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:32:43Halsey chooses pilot training before carrier commandNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19423:57:07Richardson's expertise and the interpretation of DoolittleQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:39:38Modern admirals map imperfectly onto Napoleonic command rolesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:23:42Who could lead the US Navy instead of KingQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:58:15Dudley Pound was the kinder senior officer to work forQ&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:33:23A different Grand Fleet could change Admiral King's impressionNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:08:55Starting books for twentieth-century admiralsQ&A
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)11:29Charles Winn brings civilian expertise into naval commandNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 243:08Atlantic convoy deterrence and Operation TorchChapter
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett22:18Admiral King's respect for SomervilleQ&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:15:54Admiral King's resistance complicated Anglo-American cooperationNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:06:23Better shells remove Germany's numerical case at JutlandChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response54:00Admiral King would still have to cooperateQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:07:31Could Ernest King obstruct coalition command?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response31:06Admiral King and the limits of a multi-ocean fleetNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships48:26Why Nelson's treaty engineering irritated Admiral KingNotable Point
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)56:29Presidential orders overturned a Bureau of Ships hold on AugustaNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:27:51How would Ernest King handle British command?Q&A
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol7:57Henderson Field becomes the Allied centre of gravityChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:57:26Why a guiding naval philosophy mattered to fleet designNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:12:29If Ernest King and Martin Luther King Jr. changed rolesQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response17:03A Habakkuk demonstration nearly wounds Admiral KingNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:34:22Somerville and Noble in Ernest King's Royal Navy relationshipsQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:37:58King and Cunningham's grudging wartime respectNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:35:32Ernest King's senior command required more than a harsh reputationNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:02:56Why the British Pacific Fleet had to support itselfNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:26:52Ernest King's resistance to shared Pacific commandQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:17:53Why Admiral King defended U.S. convoy readinessNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American15:50King centralises postwar planning around carrier prioritiesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 9: Command in Their Own Words0:46William Slim on constrained command in BurmaChapter
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/335:52PQ 17's legacy without a simple villainChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 450:00The American-Japanese coalition problemNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 416:28Ernest King faces a British-led naval warNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 412:15Percy Noble and proportionate strength in a naval crisisNotable Point
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville31:00The Washington mission behind British Pacific cooperationNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:17:32King's Pacific offensive was the least bad optionQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie29:27How command strain shaped Somerville's choicesNotable Point