Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Historical Interpretation

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    10:26Short history guides and testing the full argumentNotable Point
  2. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:08:57Historical judgement and human complexityNotable Point
  3. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:12:24Genghis Khan's reputation and siege terrorNotable Point
  4. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:31:57Naval history beyond familiar narrativesNotable Point
  5. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:34:00Historical responses to fast and numerous threatsNotable Point
  6. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:07:20Why an isolated quotation can misrepresent someone's viewsNotable Point
  7. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    6:46Churchill's energy, persistence and judgmentChapter
  8. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    13:31Reading Alanbrooke's criticism of ChurchillNotable Point
  9. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    55:51Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: a classification change without a proven orderNotable Point
  10. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:15:10British chivalry and the use of overwhelming forceQ&A
  11. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:18:01How fair is the claim that most Churchill ideas were unworkable?Q&A
  12. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:21:06Reading Churchill's own books criticallyQ&A
  13. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    2:24:27How to read Churchill's praise of MussoliniNotable Point
  14. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    2:33:02Churchill's use of an existing Iron Curtain phraseChapter
  15. Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    28:14Human-seeding stories are not evidence of real originsQ&A
  16. Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:10:28Historical precedent and World of Warships supershipsQ&A
  17. Myth vs Reality: does it matter for learning History?
    2:19Myth as a gateway to historical realityChapter
  18. why do historians seem to become nutty professors so easily?
    0:00Why historians seek unusual practical experiencesQ&A
  19. why do historians seem to become nutty professors so easily?
    0:39What building work reveals about shipyards and dry docksChapter
  20. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    0:00Why Michael Clapp's career mattersChapter
  21. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    43:30Building a naval biography from personal evidenceQ&A
  22. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:23:55How redactions distorted the Sir Galahad inquiry recordNotable Point
  23. Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy
    7:44Why Churchill remained Britain's strongest wartime choiceNotable Point
  24. Battle of Actium(31BC); Last Gasp of the Roman Republic
    41:12Alternative explanations for the Actium breakoutNotable Point
  25. Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...
    0:00Why a historian may omit a seminal workQ&A
  26. Historian Why Historians include or don't include seminal works in their source lists...
    1:29How differences of perspective become book controversyNotable Point
  27. Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!
    21:30Symbolic display cannot replace usable naval powerNotable Point
  28. Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!
    44:46Why the 1592 turtle ships must predate the invasionNotable Point
  29. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    38:57Why Swedish naval history can be difficult to trace in EnglishNotable Point
  30. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    59:33Ulrika Eleonora secures the crown by surrendering absolute powerChapter
  31. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    1:40:53Anna's secret office raises a longer institutional questionNotable Point
  32. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    2:16:48Peter III proposes reforms without building supportChapter
  33. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)
    2:30:33Reading Catherine II's private papers as political self-presentationNotable Point
  34. How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership
    19:49Who won the naval treaties changes with hindsightNotable Point
  35. What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?
    27:33Sobel and Winters illustrate the manager-leader splitNotable Point
  36. Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras
    41:43Battle geometry complicates claims that Britain targeted AlgecirasNotable Point
  37. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:10:29An unfamiliar decision can still have a rationaleQ&A
  38. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    2:53:03Porter and Hillyar write opposite battle reportsChapter
  39. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    30:49Judging historical leaders in the role they facedNotable Point
  40. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:07:28Naval gains do not rehabilitate TillmanQ&A
  41. The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...
    1:30Why history resists simple heroes and villainsNotable Point
  42. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    1:48:57When giant weapons are status displaysNotable Point
  43. Operation Frankton: The Cockleshell Heroes
    0:01Why Frankton resists a simple screen treatmentNotable Point
  44. Operation Frankton: The Cockleshell Heroes
    1:15:25Resistance reputation shaped the survivors' escape storyNotable Point
  45. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    53:44Who escalated the Anglo-German gun race?Notable Point
  46. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    1:04:16Did Révolutionnaire strike her colours?Notable Point
  47. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    1:48:33A historian's caution about courage under fireNotable Point
  48. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 2
    41:38Reconstructing the sound of First World War aircraftNotable Point
  49. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    41:30When missionary mechanics conflict with colonial historyNotable Point
  50. The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)
    1:11:27Why lost technology does not prove a vanished advanced civilizationNotable Point
  51. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    16:42Chesma punishes an Ottoman fleet that confines itselfNotable Point
  52. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    22:08Richard Parker and the hidden organization of the Nore mutinyNotable Point
  53. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    1:30:30Why public history should widen historical debateNotable Point
  54. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    14:56The honor of a ruse depends on who tells the storyNotable Point
  55. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    39:56Accounts disagree over Black Bart's burialNotable Point
  56. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    43:57Did Black Bart's crew choose a last stand?Q&A
  57. French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)
    1:14:47How naval historians build and debate interpretationsNotable Point
  58. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    56:23The triarii and the fourth squadron's disputed conductNotable Point
  59. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    1:10:36Why Carthage's timetable failedNotable Point
  60. Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)
    1:56:42Kimmel watches the attack unfoldNotable Point
  61. Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)
    3:02:22Which film portrays Kimmel best?Q&A
  62. Some Sunday Naval Books
    10:54The Cold War as continuing great-power politicsNotable Point
  63. Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)
    1:28:04Did illness transform Beresford's character?Notable Point
  64. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/4
    14:41Why a hidden plot behind Rudolf Hess's flight is unnecessaryQ&A
  65. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/4
    38:13How reciprocal misperception turned decisions into escalationNotable Point
  66. A Book or Two to Review (27): The Tiger from Poznan
    14:34Combat testimony and the regimes behind the warNotable Point
  67. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    1:28:15What makes a museum historically responsible?Q&A
  68. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    1:46:28Why practical experience belongs in naval historyNotable Point
  69. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    35:28World War I trauma as one explanation for France in 1940Notable Point
  70. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 2
    2:31Reading Supermarine history through evidence and inferenceNotable Point
  71. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered
    9:44Judging Ho Chi Minh's leadership by effectivenessQ&A
  72. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:05:16Dieppe's raid label and its armoured forceNotable Point
  73. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 2
    3:55Luck, institutions, and the exceptionalism questionNotable Point
  74. Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p2 of 2
    21:02Pragmatic accommodation without a secret bargainNotable Point