Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Grand Strategy

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  1. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    26:44Why Churchill preferred the Dardanelles gambleChapter
  2. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:36:41Logistics and political support for an alternative 1914 planQ&A
  3. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:45:24Could Fisher and Churchill win Cabinet approval?Q&A
  4. What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)
    2:46:56Is preserving the Grand Fleet the strongest objection?Q&A
  5. If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?
    3:04A Rhineland setback could split the war into smaller conflictsNotable Point
  6. If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?
    1:18:35Maritime industrial blocs gain from a longer rearmament periodNotable Point
  7. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:29:35Britain and the United States cannot leave the other to defeat Japan aloneQ&A
  8. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…
    12:31Why One China statements do not guarantee wartime supportNotable Point
  9. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…
    39:51Two invasion paths: exercise cover or political crisisChapter
  10. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…
    43:23Uncertain political responses complicate invasion planningNotable Point
  11. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    18:21Public argument and the appearance of national strengthNotable Point
  12. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    53:35Could Japan keep America busy while Germany widened submarine attacks?Notable Point
  13. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:01:36Hitler's gambles and the prestige of declaring firstChapter
  14. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:26:31Separate European and Pacific warsChapter
  15. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    31:06British-American defence cooperation and wider alliancesQ&A
  16. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    49:19How the Allies might break Fortress Europe without the Soviet warQ&A
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    55:30Would victory in China have stopped Japan's southern advance?Q&A
  18. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    6:23:00Why Nimitz preferred Formosa to retaking the PhilippinesQ&A
  19. Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"
    35:31Looking beyond the Cold War alliance lensNotable Point
  20. Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold
    1:34Why Cromwell chose war with SpainChapter
  21. Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold
    7:01The treasure fleet as a strategic dilemmaNotable Point
  22. Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability
    1:25:26Why balance-of-power logic made a solo Pacific war unlikelyNotable Point
  23. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    5:04Catherine weighs Baltic territory against other warsNotable Point
  24. Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!
    6:15Senior officers can preserve strategic experience for governmentNotable Point
  25. 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
  26. Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!
    19:27National policy required the tools to fightNotable Point
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    30:30Risk-fleet policy turned Britain into a rivalNotable Point
  30. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    53:46Why the end-of-history idea survived the 1990sQ&A
  31. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    12:27How a navy explains its place in national strategyChapter
  32. Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 3
    1:12:26Distance, economics, and secrecy create believable technology gapsChapter
  33. Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 3
    1:17:31Pax Americana, Britannica, and Romana served the hegemon firstNotable Point
  34. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    1:26:50Churchill and Hitler complicate the Pacific crisisChapter
  35. The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 7
    11:47Fatalism helps explain Japan's choice for warNotable Point
  36. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    49:04Rory Stewart's grand-strategy credentialsNotable Point
  37. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    52:24Grand strategy and the value of restraintChapter
  38. Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:52:34Why Stalin would wait out the wider warNotable Point
  39. Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered
    36:56Planning and accelerating the British imperial transitionQ&A
  40. Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:46:21Postwar rearmament without working nuclear weaponsQ&A
  41. Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:53:41Appeasement, rearmament, and the cost of delaying warNotable Point
  42. Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:43:13Punitive war signals resolve to other alliesNotable Point
  43. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    28:41How a successful Dardanelles campaign could matterQ&A
  44. Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...
    15:05Why administration is First Sea Lord strategyNotable Point
  45. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    1:49:58Stalin must choose between neutrality and a seat at the peace tableChapter
  46. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    2:00:26Would Japanese intervention prevent Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia?Q&A
  47. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    3:05:55A shorter war would leave Britain stronger at the peace tableChapter
  48. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    3:14:50Could Japan attack the Soviet Far East after Germany's defeat?Q&A
  49. HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War
    54:55Amphibious readiness could have changed Britain's Norway choiceNotable Point
  50. USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 10
    21:06Indigenous trade, Canada, and the war's competing motivesChapter
  51. USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 10
    1:13:20Causes, blame, and who starts a warNotable Point
  52. Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 1928
    2:38:56A visible technology lead may delay the European warNotable Point
  53. Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 1928
    2:47:09How a peace dividend left aggressors room to actQ&A
  54. Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 1928
    3:07:12Early turbine investment changes more than aircraftChapter
  55. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    4:45Why a German fleet aimed at France still faced BritainNotable Point
  56. WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...
    1:26:08The central lesson: small changes accumulate through a long warNotable Point
  57. Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!
    1:14:42What a delay of war to 1942 would requireQ&A
  58. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    52:29Neutral Spain survived because both coalitions found it usefulNotable Point
  59. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    28:19Why an American nuclear monopoly would be hard to preserveQ&A
  60. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    1:59:57If America concentrates on Japan before GermanyQ&A
  61. US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response
    9:42Victory, negotiation, and the political capacity to keep fightingNotable Point
  62. US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response
    18:42Britain's strategic response to American economic scaleQ&A
  63. US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response
    22:06Economic scale narrowed Britain's strategic optionsNotable Point
  64. Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion
    2:00:20Would the United States still enter the European war?Q&A
  65. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    55:15Finishing the American campaign before expanding into IndiaNotable Point
  66. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    56:33Grand strategy as joined-up thinkingNotable Point
  67. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    2:38:31Why remove the Prussian foothold first?Notable Point
  68. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    2:52:50Why reject the quickest way to break Spain?Q&A
  69. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    2:56:30Continental territory and land-war commitmentsNotable Point
  70. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    2:57:15A diplomatic success creates a new strategic problemNotable Point
  71. Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...
    1:04:20Why late Song leadership failed at grand strategyNotable Point
  72. Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...
    1:21:48Dynastic grand strategy under child rulersNotable Point
  73. Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy
    0:03When rational interests leave no compromiseNotable Point
  74. Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy
    13:58Why the League could fall like dominoesNotable Point
  75. Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy
    26:08The race before the Baltic thawChapter
  76. Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy
    37:47From Denmark to Sweden, Prussia, and RussiaNotable Point
  77. Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters
    1:13:18Crown Prince Frederick and the limits of fixed strategyNotable Point
  78. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    0:48Grand strategy beyond military forceChapter
  79. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    1:54Naval history as part of a connected systemNotable Point
  80. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    3:55The instruments and ends of grand strategyChapter
  81. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    5:38Grand strategy before the nameNotable Point
  82. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    10:45Short planning horizons can mean building twiceNotable Point
  83. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    29:02Public finance, industry, and national defenceChapter
  84. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    30:38How education and health support workforce investmentNotable Point
  85. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    34:51Grand strategy as national survivalChapter
  86. Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History
    1:20:51Japan's southern strategy without American sanctions leadershipQ&A
  87. Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History
    3:33:22China as a threat and the instability of personality-centered statesQ&A
  88. Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-65
    1:07:55A stronger Britain still transitions toward a CommonwealthQ&A
  89. The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction
    5:31Ottoman expansion as pre-emptive securityNotable Point
  90. Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...
    23:35A stronger Britain and the strategic calculus of VietnamQ&A
  91. Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...
    33:17Britain's alliance risks in the Vietnam counterfactualQ&A
  92. Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...
    2:08:11Why US troops could remain in a British-defended EuropeQ&A
  93. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:36:36Why the United States still joins a Far Eastern warChapter
  94. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:42:01Reversing the Royal Navy's 1940 nightmareChapter
  95. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    1:57:26The worst Axis errors belonged to governments, not uniquely foolish naviesQ&A
  96. French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)
    2:15:00The Maginot Line competed with a balanced fleetChapter
  97. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    34:55How little Germany knew about Pearl HarborQ&A
  98. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)
    13:43Germany's fleet policy and Britain's likely alignmentQ&A
  99. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    1:15:18Canadian Alaska and the Anglo-Japanese AllianceQ&A
  100. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    1:41:37How a South American debt crisis might realign great powersQ&A
  101. The Seven Years War Trailer
    0:00Why theorists begin with the Seven Years' WarChapter
  102. The Seven Years War Trailer
    0:40Why the Seven Years' War suits selective historical argumentsChapter
  103. The Seven Years War Trailer
    1:52Why grand strategy cannot be purely maritime or continentalNotable Point
  104. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    2:28:58Q&A: why Germany misread Britain in 1914Q&A
  105. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    5:03Guadalcanal's limited value becomes a strategic trapNotable Point
  106. Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books
    19:03Sea power and the meaning of Pax AmericanaQ&A
  107. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion
    49:07Continental war closes Napoleon's invasion windowNotable Point
  108. Bruships 55: New Books
    3:50:07Why defeating Britain required a workable invasionQ&A
  109. Bruships 55: New Books
    3:53:07Hitler's declaration and America's path to EuropeQ&A
  110. A Book or Two to Review (7): Edward I and Wales 1254-1307
    22:11Edward I's commitment and the French strategic shiftNotable Point
  111. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    2:57:56What if Japan attacked America but not Britain?Q&A
  112. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    17:58The Spanish Civil War complicated French securityNotable Point
  113. Bruships 34: Random History
    22:59Why did the United States choose war with Britain in 1812?Q&A
  114. 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
  115. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:40:48Why democratic governments drift from strategy to expediencyNotable Point
  116. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    25:05Far-Flung Lines for imperial defence and wider strategyNotable Point
  117. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:01:44Japan's strategic dependence on an Anglo-American partnerQ&A
  118. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:00:55Britain or America alone against JapanQ&A
  119. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:03:02Resources and strategic overreach in Germany's defeatNotable Point