Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Historical Analogy

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  1. Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?
    3:54Why training demands favoured firearmsNotable Point
  2. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    3:42Greeks, Romans, and the politics of losing a fleetNotable Point
  3. The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI
    3:49Compare destroyers from equivalent development cyclesNotable Point
  4. The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI
    23:39MiG-25 language and the assumptions behind the F-15Notable Point
  5. Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:35:17What Dungeons & Dragons classes reveal about warshipsQ&A
  6. Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?
    54:41Gloire and Warrior as an analogy for accepting a new warshipNotable Point
  7. Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:08Cavalry doctrine translated to naval combatQ&A
  8. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    0:00Churchill applies the wrong shipbuilding lessonChapter
  9. Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?
    2:16Imperial cost cutting and military reliabilityChapter
  10. Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships
    7:02Medieval armour as a capital-ship design analogyNotable Point
  11. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    7:43:25The limits of an Ireland analogy for TaiwanQ&A
  12. Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command
    35:44The Falklands analogy: command, rank, and blameNotable Point
  13. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    44:08Coronel confirmed the wrong British stereotypeNotable Point
  14. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:42:55Why modern Britain's strategy has no clean historical twinQ&A
  15. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    54:11The limits of using naval history to design a fictional navyQ&A
  16. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:40:13The end-of-history claim repeats interwar hubrisNotable Point
  17. Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!
    1:24:20Historical battleship tactics versus World of WarshipsNotable Point
  18. Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!
    2:35:04Victory Star Destroyers as historical cruiser analoguesQ&A
  19. 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
  20. HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 9
    6:24Using naval history to reason about deterrenceNotable Point
  21. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    1:33:47World War II demanded a broader analogy than World War INotable Point
  22. Slava Class: Comment Response
    17:28A cruiser analogy for Kara and SlavaQ&A
  23. Slava Class: Comment Response
    37:58Fallback designs beyond warships: HST, B-32, and Kitty HawkNotable Point
  24. Slava Class: Comment Response
    39:25Why a larger Kirov backup was impracticalQ&A
  25. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)
    3:45:55Using Agincourt to explain collapsing assault wavesNotable Point
  26. Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 4
    16:24Why fleets need unglamorous second-class cruisersChapter
  27. Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 4
    19:19The safety-car analogy for judging supporting warshipsNotable Point
  28. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    0:01Using naval history to read the Galaxy classChapter
  29. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    12:54The peaceful exploration label and wartime conversionChapter
  30. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    15:36Naval culture shapes Starfleet's peaceful self-imageNotable Point
  31. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    21:05Modularity explains the long development cycleNotable Point
  32. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    23:39A cruiser can still be a capital shipChapter
  33. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    1:10:19Danish frigates and the LCS clarify Galaxy modularityNotable Point
  34. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    8:41The Finnish War inside Napoleon's European systemChapter
  35. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    15:22Ship quality does not erase numerical and missile threatsNotable Point
  36. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    17:53Sveaborg exposed the limits of a fleet frozen into harbourChapter
  37. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    21:11Russia used winter, information, and Finnish disillusionmentChapter
  38. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    35:57Gotland showed why Baltic islands needed real garrisonsNotable Point
  39. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    50:41Defeat remade Sweden while victory encouraged Russian overconfidenceNotable Point
  40. Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol
    17:56Why Venice in 1797 was a poor analogy for Ukraine in 2022Notable Point
  41. Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    0:02Why destroyer flotillas needed scout cruisersChapter
  42. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties
    4:25Trafalgar's battle-line image versus Jutland's manoeuvreNotable Point
  43. Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 2
    28:08Why Burnett could not press the German withdrawalNotable Point
  44. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 1781
    0:39Dogger Bank in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch WarNotable Point
  45. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    4:15Paper wealth versus usable powerNotable Point
  46. When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video
    57:34Artificial islands as conquest by civil engineeringNotable Point