Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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German Empire

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  1. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    1:02:58Why France could not put its whole budget into the navyNotable Point
  2. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    1:08:21How the Triple Alliance could turn the war against France and RussiaChapter
  3. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    1:11:25A European coalition war and the American dilemmaNotable Point
  4. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    1:16:11A damaged Anglo-French relationship and a different imperial settlementChapter
  5. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    1:17:40Russia facing two wars before its military reformsNotable Point
  6. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    1:18:12Would German gains reduce pressure for a larger navy?Notable Point
  7. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    1:49:20What if Germany already controlled Denmark?Q&A
  8. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    6:10Could Germany have accepted a six-year delay?Q&A
  9. Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:07:44An 1895 Russian-backed alliance and the Scandinavian reactionQ&A
  10. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:56:54A British-led peace creates a different interwar orderChapter
  11. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:33:40Would Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans follow Germany into peace?Q&A
  12. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:56:12Would Britain transfer Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark?Q&A
  13. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:56:44Would an early peace produce an independent Poland?Q&A
  14. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    19:11Competing war aims and choices behind the 1914 crisisChapter
  15. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    7:49:28Avoiding an Anglo-German naval race in a Wilhelm II counterfactualQ&A
  16. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    4:47:02If Kaiser Wilhelm II also became Tsar of RussiaQ&A
  17. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    4:54:27How a German-Russian union could widen the Russo-Japanese WarNotable Point
  18. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    6:36:39Time-displaced Germany and the disease questionQ&A
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    2:22:40A German-Russian personal union remakes EuropeQ&A
  20. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    2:24:06Port access and railways in a German-Russian unionNotable Point
  21. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    2:32:07Would Russian nobles constrain a German Kaiser ruling Russia?Q&A
  22. Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"
    40:20Making the guarantee of Belgian neutrality credibleChapter
  23. Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"
    44:23How German policy accumulated maritime enemiesNotable Point
  24. Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut
    1:23:25Why an 1880s German-American alliance would unravelQ&A
  25. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:07:42Wilhelm II inherits Britain during the naval raceQ&A
  26. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:09:22Would the colonies accept an Anglo-German personal union?Q&A
  27. Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence
    1:00:24The Straits crisis could have widened across EuropeNotable Point
  28. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    47:05Germany gives Austria-Hungary a blank checkChapter
  29. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:04:46Concealment and the timing of the ultimatumNotable Point
  30. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:06:49Germany's preventive-war logicChapter
  31. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:11:24A warning from Berlin goes unheededNotable Point
  32. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:16:50The blank check traps ViennaNotable Point
  33. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:31:40Germany's general staff takes control of the crisisChapter
  34. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:35:53The powers could not control the war they releasedNotable Point
  35. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:42:38"Necessity knows no law" and the Treaty of LondonNotable Point
  36. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:43:06Britain's final ultimatum over BelgiumNotable Point
  37. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:47:23Neutrality risked making Britain dependent on GermanyNotable Point
  38. Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...
    1:48:57Could earlier British mobilization have deterred war?Notable Point
  39. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:07:35German war planning and the approaching Russian reformsNotable Point
  40. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:57:07Bismarck's pragmatic use of limited democracyQ&A
  41. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:49:35How beam weapons in 1910 Canada would redirect naval rivalryQ&A
  42. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    46:48Vitgeft, Port Arthur, and the forced Yellow Sea sortieChapter
  43. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    4:04:36Wilhelm II's death in Dutch exileQ&A
  44. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    28:28A youthful Queen Victoria returns in 1912Q&A
  45. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:12:03A hypothetical American intervention in 1905Q&A
  46. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:13:47A German landing at New York in the 1905 counterfactualNotable Point
  47. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:19:40Occupation, insurgency, and the limits of a wartime allianceNotable Point
  48. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:20:45Theodore Roosevelt in the 1905 counterfactualNotable Point
  49. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:29:42New York's economic value and a later rematchNotable Point
  50. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    21:02Why the 1890 bargain favoured BritainChapter
  51. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    24:40Pan-German visions beyond the 1871 empireNotable Point
  52. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    49:08A wartime threat, not a peacetime economic blockadeChapter
  53. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    1:05:15Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Heligoland grievanceChapter
  54. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    1:19:59Heligoland as a pressure on German governmentsNotable Point
  55. Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 106
    2:22:25Postwar consequences of a British HeligolandNotable Point
  56. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    3:22:01A French assassin kills Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1914Q&A
  57. Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 3
    1:40:47An early peace could remove Wilhelm II but preserve the monarchyNotable Point
  58. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    1:38:39Who would buy Germany's colonies before 1914Q&A
  59. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    1:39:09How Bismarck concentrated ministerial power in the KaiserQ&A
  60. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    26:51A postwar map without Poland or the Baltic statesChapter
  61. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    43:42A broken Germany blocks reunification and rearmamentNotable Point
  62. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    54:04Why the counterfactual stops in the 1920sNotable Point
  63. Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI
    37:36Imperial Russia at the postwar peace conferenceChapter
  64. Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI
    59:50Could Denmark receive the Kiel Canal after the war?Q&A
  65. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    2:59:17Britain had little reason to trade Portugal for German goodwillQ&A
  66. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:34:34The Zimmermann Telegram fit a wider pattern of German strategic incoherenceQ&A
  67. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:55:05Wilhelm II was unlikely to abandon rivalry with Britain through persuasionQ&A
  68. HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 9
    36:44A flagship as a tool of shuttle diplomacyChapter
  69. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    27:34How Edith Cavell's execution damaged Germany's credibilityQ&A
  70. Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
    44:12Political opposition to the 1917 decisionNotable Point
  71. Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory
    0:41Germany's land-power problem and Britain's maritime strengthChapter
  72. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    4:04Frederick III and the assumptions behind an alternate world warQ&A
  73. Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...
    2:03:49Bismarck's break with Wilhelm IIChapter
  74. Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions
    2:01An eastern-first German strategy might keep Britain outNotable Point
  75. Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions
    19:20A Wilhelm II succession could provoke a constitutional crisisQ&A
  76. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    22:52Why Germany based a cruiser squadron in East AsiaChapter
  77. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    28:54German ambitions in the PhilippinesNotable Point
  78. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    52:10Bismarck, Prussia, and expectations of British supportNotable Point
  79. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    22:38Venezuela misreads the Monroe DoctrineChapter
  80. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    25:17Britain doubles Germany's blockade forceNotable Point
  81. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    29:17A counterfactual intervention escalates far beyond VenezuelaNotable Point
  82. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    18:47When would the powers intervene in another independence crisis?Q&A
  83. SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 12
    0:23Why Germany built the unprotected cruiser GefionChapter
  84. SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 12
    5:23Wilhelm II's naval ambition without long-term investmentNotable Point
  85. Velasco Class(1881): 19th Century Cruisers p5
    18:08Don Antonio de Ulloa stripped at CaviteChapter
  86. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    30:38Tsingtao and the great-power contest around the PhilippinesNotable Point
  87. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    1:20:58A global cruiser war constrained by coal and diplomacyChapter
  88. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:46:04Germany waits for an opening in the PhilippinesQ&A
  89. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    18:56Bismarck's system without BismarckNotable Point
  90. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    21:28Tangier and the challenge to French controlChapter
  91. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    41:16Agadir: rebellion, intervention, and the Panther gunboatChapter
  92. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    36:16Why Wilhelm II abandoned Bismarck's diplomacyQ&A
  93. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    39:11Kaiser Wilhelm II's Tangier interventionChapter
  94. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    50:14Algeciras: a conference Morocco could not controlChapter
  95. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    58:09An Anglo-German-Japanese alignment without WilhelmQ&A
  96. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    1:05:00Why a different war produces a different naval treatyQ&A
  97. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    1:13:02Agadir and the Panther gunboatChapter
  98. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    1:23:17Financial pressure and the Congo settlementChapter
  99. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    1:27:52The dangerous lesson Poincaré drew from AgadirNotable Point
  100. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    2:04:31Designing institutions for leaders after BismarckQ&A
  101. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 4/11 What Dreadnought Obscures
    0:48Four-funnel liners before TitanicChapter
  102. Bruships 55: New Books
    1:31:27Wilhelm II and the failure of royal family diplomacyQ&A
  103. Bruships 55: New Books
    1:37:53Kaiser Wilhelm II and the blank chequeQ&A
  104. Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)
    21:56Why German fleet building alarmed BritainQ&A
  105. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered
    10:32Debt, gunboats, and Germany's informal imperial reachQ&A