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- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live59:28Japan's limits on expanding steel productionNotable Point
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- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:23How aerial torpedoes were adapted for shallow harboursNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:38Why Britain and Japan pursued night fighting for different reasonsNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:13A Chinese submarine success could redirect Japanese ASW researchQ&A
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- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:36Kido Butai waits for the US relief forceQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:48Delaying Midway gives the Essex program time to matureQ&A
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- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live30:19Divided command and contradictory signals from JapanChapter
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live31:37Japanese attrition doctrine and the cost of holding islandsNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live1:11:06If the Japanese force had been sunk at Savo IslandQ&A
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live1:23:47What Midway changed at seaQ&A
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live1:26:06If Japan had attacked the Savo Island transportsQ&A
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- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:34:52Limits of closer German-Japanese naval cooperationQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:46:46Converting a Kongo-class hull into an aircraft carrierQ&A
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- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:04:13The Japanese carrier lessons Aquila neededQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:03:00If Japan had attacked the Soviet Union in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:41Perfect communications would not erase Japan's resource deficitQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 222:29Mitsumasa Yonai's wartime political powerQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:40:56Japan without Singapore's oil reservesQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:13Why doubling Type 93 torpedo range would not guarantee hitsQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:13A 1960s Japanese fleet trying to invade Australia in 1942Q&A
- What would need to change for HMAS Australia & HMS New Zealand to be retained under Washington?40:49A separate Kongo allowance could fund more NagatosNotable Point
- What would need to change for HMAS Australia & HMS New Zealand to be retained under Washington?56:51New battleships could give Japan a treaty successNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:10:45Japan's shipbuilding industry follows its historical growth pathQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:13:52Japan without the wartime seizure of QingdaoQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:55:41Japan's Eight-Eight Fleet and the reconnaissance carrierChapter
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:22:14Why later Japanese rebuilds cannot describe the 1910s fleetQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:19:05The next battlecruisers in Japan's Eight-Eight planQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:19:45How U-boats weakened Japan's postwar economyQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:32:31How hindsight changes the reputation of Japan's 1914 naval scandalQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:35:16Which 1920 navy is best prepared for the future?Q&A
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- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...6:17Zigzagging complicates long-range Japanese torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:56Buoyancy, topweight, and structural strengthNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:48Why the IJN called the Kongos fast battleshipsQ&A
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- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:09:21Free French Indochina removes Japan's easy staging areaChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:26:09A full Eastern Fleet could replace isolated Force ZQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:30:39An early Allied command gives Singapore a fleet instead of Force ZNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:37:24A stronger opposition does not easily restore Japanese civilian controlQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:41:57A Singapore fleet could reinforce the Philippines and fight at nightQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:43:56France planned to join its Far East force to the Royal NavyQ&A
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- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:28Reworking Ibuki after a carrier conversionQ&A
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- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:18Japan after an early Chinese surrender in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:58Japanese warship candidates for an Azur Lane eventQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:05Fen Yang after Japanese disarmamentQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:16Building Number 13 battlecruisers instead of YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:03Building the 1938 raider-hunting group by navyQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:00A successful League of Blood assassination campaignQ&A
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- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:56A Japanese cavity magnetron before the Pacific WarQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:29Why more Japanese heavy AA guns would not solve air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:52The obstacles to an Imperial German conquest of JapanQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:08What a second Nagato modernization would prioritizeQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:50Minelaying submarines at San Bernardino StraitQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:39Smaller Japanese battleships could strengthen the whole fleetQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)48:48Japan could shift fleet scouting onto small carriersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:06:34Britain and Japan would lead light-carrier adoptionNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:22:45Small carriers could widen Japan's shipyard baseNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:45:32What light carrier would Japan standardize?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:49:59How would Japan crew many more carrier air groups?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:51:38Would light carriers widen Japan's opening offensive?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:26A cautious estimate for Nagato's barbette widthQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:19How to refine the Yugumo-class destroyerQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:15:35Akizuki and Fletcher destroyers: design and numbersQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:38How navies would exploit an ice-loading treaty allowanceQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:15Why Japan could not simply swap carrier conversion hullsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:23What a completed Ibuki could still doQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:54Japan's need for a mass small-escort programNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:49Why Japan struggled to reach the fast-battleship thresholdQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:33:18A carrier-backed Force Z could contest the South China SeaChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:50:11A combined British-American carrier battle changes the Pacific warChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:23:35Japanese doctrine required attrition before decisive battleQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:29:35Britain and the United States cannot leave the other to defeat Japan aloneQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:54Could Prince of Wales have survived Force Z?Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:46The land-based naval bombers that attacked Force ZNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:33Why Japan could not add another major operation before MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:40If the US Navy captured HiryuQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:35Ibuki's old guns do not solve a new cruiser's weight problemQ&A
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- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII15:09Why exercises against America differed from preparations to fight JapanChapter
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:34Habakkuk would help Britain more than a super-battleship helped JapanQ&A
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!9:15Standardized ratings and the service identity carried by rank titlesNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!11:27Imperial Japanese ranks as an officer-development ladderChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!16:09Personal mentoring in Imperial Japanese officer developmentNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!17:31Elite Japanese training could not supply the depth of total warNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!19:21The 1942 Japanese NCO rank reformChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!23:20Generalist Japanese officers commanded enlisted specialistsChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!47:19Rank patterns reveal foreign influence and status politicsNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!1:03:54Why similar rank words need cultural contextNotable Point
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- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:13Japanese carrier development without the Washington splitQ&A
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- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...41:17Japanese cruiser scouts find targets without exposing carriersChapter
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...43:53Japan seeks a decisive battle that can secure a negotiated peaceNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...45:17Japan's attrition plan outruns its industrial baseNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...47:06Tone-class layout puts air search ahead of balanced gunneryNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...48:33Allied base-building breaks Japan's attrition timetableNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...50:17Kantai Kessen concludes Japan's attrition campaignNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...52:09Reliable aircraft and elite crews underpin Japanese scoutingNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun35:54Shell defects and shared technology in the naval arms raceNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...23:21Fuso belongs to the 1912 dreadnought generationQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics32:22Could Kido Butai chase the US Fleet toward the Philippines?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics51:21Why Russia's single rail line limited a longer war with JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:23A royal marriage preserves Anglo-Japanese tiesQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:50A more radical Imperial Japanese NavyQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:08Britain destroys Russia's Second Pacific SquadronQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?52:59Global reactions to an imperial battlecruiser networkNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:10:29Dominion Lions and the Pacific gun raceChapter
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:22:08Finding a joint account of the Kusaka cousinsQ&A
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:14:14Japan's island perimeter and the limits of a short-war planNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?2:06:05If Britain joins an expanded Russo-Japanese WarQ&A
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit48:37Mines, deck guns, and Japanese patrols in the submarine warChapter
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:45Pearl Harbor's known readiness cultureQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:40An explosive freighter attack on Pearl HarborQ&A
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...0:55Pearl Harbor planning and American carrier exercisesChapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...8:18How early did Japan consider a carrier strike on Pearl Harbor?Chapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...10:23The treaty ratio turns insecurity into planning pressureNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...14:05Genda's recollections and the limits of planning testimonyChapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...16:14Kuroshima's small forces and raiding attritionNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...17:12Carrier command and the use of specialist staffNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...18:39Onishi's opposition and Yamamoto's resignation threatNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...31:27Pearl Harbor and Japan's short-war strategyChapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...59:53From attrition raid to off-balance strategyNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...1:18:52Bias, war weariness, and American complacencyNotable Point
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- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:55A better Allied disposition at Savo IslandQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:15Why navies avoid liquid-oxygen torpedo propellantsQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:53Nagato appears in Japan before the Russo-Japanese WarQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:04Was Nagato built in Japan?Q&A
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- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:17:49Which ships would Japan replace after a hypothetical 1929 war?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:21:12A 1929 submarine war forces Japan to learn ASW earlyNotable Point
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- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon43:39Industrial depth decides who can replace a lost fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:32:32Japan most needed a Black Swan-style escort leaderQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:49:04Alternate histories must explain how their fleets appearNotable Point
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- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:10:52Would British fuel supplies keep Japan away from the Dutch East Indies?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:30:34What Béarn copies would do to Japan's carrier offensiveQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:29:02Why swapping Axis fleets cripples Italy and JapanQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:37:43Why multiplying each alliance's best navy still favors the AlliesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:43:28What prewar 40 mm Bofors adoption gives JapanQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:00:03The long memory behind Japanese fear of AmericaQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:13:08How building holidays weakened Japanese confidenceNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:42:34A Washington treaty without a building holidayQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust52:18If Japan destroyed the German East Asia Squadron at TsingtaoQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust59:07Why Imperial Japanese warships did not need an HMS-style prefixQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:03:04Why more Japanese carriers would not solve the air-group shortageQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:09:05How a stable republican China could disrupt naval arms limitsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:14:57Why foreknowledge would not make Yamamoto betray JapanQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:16:26What fleet a stable early republican China might buildQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:29:14What submarines could give Nationalist China before war with JapanQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:01:17How a stronger China could redraw Pacific naval alignmentsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:24:09Replacing Japan's heavy cruisers with Omaha-class shipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:12:25How advance warning could turn Pearl Harbor into a carrier ambushQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:18:38Why ten nuclear weapons would buy Japan only a temporary peaceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust8:06:50Reading the rise of Imperial Japanese naval air powerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:28:46How a major Siamese fleet changes the war for Southeast AsiaQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:48:09Why modern radar alone would not let Japan win the Pacific WarQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:56:08A limited future-warhead counterfactual for Japan in 1941Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:15:55How navies defined the destroyer leader differentlyQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:56:12Why a CIC did not make the U.S. Navy expert at night fightingQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress10:58:28Why Operation Kita was not a Pacific Channel DashQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:50Could Japan have built the Number 13 battleship design?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:49Why an Eight-Eight Fleet needs slack for maintenanceNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:31:19If every Japanese capital ship became a Number 13Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:46:42If Stalin received a French-scale fleet in 1938Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida4:48:31The Royal Navy's shift toward task groupsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:55:03How nuclear capital ships in 1938 would alter Japanese strategyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:17:14If the full British Eastern Fleet concentrated at SingaporeQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:37:09Japan with Habakkuk plans and the problem of recognizing an air raidQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:37:24Building the Japanese entry in a treaty-cruiser game challengeNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:42:24Could full-load claims conceal an overweight treaty cruiser?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:34:50A Japanese fleet of twelve-inch large cruisersQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:52:03Better air defense at Cape Matapan and in the PacificNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:06:16Why a Japanese destroyer gun had to work beyond night battlesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:06:59How misleading trials could weaken Japanese air defenseNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:07:36Gun performance, barrel wear, and distance from home industryNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:34:40Japanese air defense, surviving carriers, and the length of the Pacific WarNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:48:23How strong is the case for Japan's 100 mm gun?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II3:41:56If Japan received 1960s technology in 1937Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II8:01:05Why Yubari appeals as a smaller cruiser to operateQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I46:15Why USS Isabel missed the Japanese invasion fleetQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I53:00How the Tsukuba and Ibuki armored cruisers comparedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:07:48Why a dense Type 96 battery still left a light cruiser exposedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:16:00What Yamato would need for a Rhine River operationQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:22:15Why a 2,500-ton light cruiser is effectively a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:28:47Why pilot quality could not restore Japanese carrier parityQ&A
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!3:16Sixteen carriers planned, only three completedChapter
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!24:32Why fleets need quality, quantity, and balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:15Omura Bay's wartime naval roleQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:20Amagi survives the earthquake as a battlecruiserQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?8:23American, Japanese, and Italian cruiser submarinesChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?43:50France builds around Surcouf while Japan reaches toward the I-400Chapter
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:48How Morioka remembers Admiral Mitsumasa YonaiQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:42What Japan could build instead of the Yamato classQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:28:22Etajima presents naval memory from Japan's own perspectiveNotable Point
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?18:44How the revised treaty restarts capital-ship buildingChapter
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?1:05:21Japan's three new fast battleshipsChapter
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?1:07:32Battlecruisers threaten cruisers more than battle linesNotable Point
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?1:18:40Continuous building drives reciprocal modernizationNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan0:49Mikawa's leadership and moral contradictionChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan3:41How repeated success distorted Japanese judgmentNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan7:43Early service builds Mikawa's torpedo expertiseChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan9:12Treaty diplomacy marks Mikawa for senior commandChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan10:59Japanese ranks reveal Mikawa's accelerated career trackNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan14:31Staff and sea commands prepare Mikawa for independenceChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan15:59Mikawa as Pearl Harbor's backup commanderNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan27:42Mikawa calls the Solomons an attritional black holeChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan30:17The Akikaze massacre and unresolved command responsibilityChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan45:25Naval officers serve as national representativesNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan49:52What if Japan limited or abandoned the Solomons defense?Notable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:41A 45,000-ton Washington treaty limitQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:18If the Yonai government survives into 1941Q&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:58Choosing Mutsu as a Japanese warship to ownQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:35Reading Mikasa through the Six-Six Fleet's decisionsQ&A
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?40:36A plausible division of the High Seas FleetNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:00:38An intact fleet breaks the historical 5:5:3 ratioChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:09:20German humiliation and fears of Japanese design fusionNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:13:39Carrier programs grow before a delayed treatyNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?0:00Leyte Gulf as a Japanese operational gambleChapter
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?25:52Destroyer culture rewarded attacks against stronger shipsNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:05:24A night ambush could destroy Center ForceNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:09:28An early Japanese capital-ship collapseChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut46:23Three 500,000-ton super-ships appear in JapanQ&A
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?0:00From the Six-Six Fleet Plan to the Maya classChapter
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:44Why Japan's planned 28 light cruisers would have limited wartime valueQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:55Why Japanese naval wargaming needed to confront failureNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:42Choosing the Axis destroyer best suited to its theaterQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:22The unrealized promise of Japan's Type 5 127 mm gunQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:17British shallow-water torpedo technique at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:25Azur Lane's G14 carrier and I-400 submarine referencesQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:31How the Caracciolo class could upset Washington treaty arithmeticQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:43:52If Japan chose Design 472 instead of KongōQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:47:22Would 12-inch Design 472 ships be replaced sooner?Q&A
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...26:46Three navies, three reasons for multi-carrier operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:05The firepower and vulnerability of Japanese Battleship Number 23Q&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:11What makes an enemy a peer threat at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:51A peer opponent's ability to take the fight backQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:14A pom-pom alternative to Japan's 25 mm gunQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:38The machinery cost of a 28-knot NagatoQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:07A Short Sunderland drives off Force Z's attackersQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:40Warspite and Somerville at Savo IslandQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:45Would the Japanese recognize Warspite before opening the battle?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:31Deterring Japan without revealing Britain's whole handQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:38One Allied submarine type for Germany and JapanQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:54:56Could proximity fuzes save Force Z?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:19:52Catapult Hurricanes defend Force ZQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:30:10Would another navy fire a Royal Navy captain?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:39:01An unscuttled High Seas Fleet and American treaty choicesQ&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?20:36Why ambitious dreadnought studies became conservative shipsNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?56:55Tsushima made battle-line cohesion the prewar lessonNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:03:12Fleet size shaped who could adopt fast battleshipsChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:37:39Japan's Eight-Eight fleet sought quality over numbersChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:38:39Would Japanese attrition work better against Britain than America?Q&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:54:32The Number 13 class could have forced a British answerChapter
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:18The mine that sank PetropavlovskQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:24Why a Japanese Coral Sea victory delays rather than decides the warQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:15Industrial capacity does not remove Japan's resource problemQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:55American carriers in a Wake Island relief battleQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:14A Kirov-derived missile ship against the wartime Japanese NavyQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...18:42How Imperial Japanese Navy ranks encoded seniorityChapter
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...25:38Why Japan changed sailor ranks during wartimeNotable Point
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...34:04How Japanese specialisms lengthened every lower-deck rankNotable Point
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...1:48:41Which rank systems caused the most concern?Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:08Why Yumi was unlikely as a Japanese warship nameQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:45Could Russia have won the Russo-Japanese War?Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:14Capital ships shift from battle lines to wars of maneuverNotable Point
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:44Why navies handle capital-city ship names carefullyQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22:36Could Ise and Hyuga become useful anti-aircraft battleships?Q&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:11:00Tone-class scouts in Japan's attrition doctrineChapter
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:17:29Why Allied operational pauses frustrated Japan's attrition planNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:28:08Why Britain and Japan both prized reliable naval aircraftNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:30:33The older command model behind Japan's dispersed scouting groupsNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:35:57A less specialized nine-gun alternative to the Tone classNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:31:30Did Japanese cruisers operate the Rufe floatplane fighter?Q&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:51:02Could armed seaplane tenders count as aviation cruisers?Q&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:56:19Japanese cruiser scouts at Midway and Leyte GulfQ&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability3:00:16Why Ise and Hyuga did not solve cruiser-aviation problemsQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:26Japanese options if the Pacific Fleet stayed on the US West CoastQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:03Diesel endurance and the 1930s power-density problemQ&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?58:24Japan and Italy face a new battleship speed floorChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…10:31World War I precedents for attacking fleets from the airNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…17:10Why carrier navies converged on attacks against ships in harbourChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…19:03The Washington treaty pushed Japan toward an offensive solutionNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…23:48How routine staff work could conceal Pearl Harbor preparationsChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…27:16Genda's recollection dates attack discussions to 1934Notable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…28:05Operational concepts and procurement shaped each otherNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…30:07Small task groups within a centralized attrition strategyNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…33:33Yamamoto's responsibility and the work of his staffNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…35:14How did Japan control its carrier task groups?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…36:13Kusaka's air plan and the fleet's separate movement planNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…38:51Onishi became an opponent after studying the attackNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…39:53Pearl Harbor and Taranto were naval-air operationsNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…41:25A proposed evolution from a raid to a fleet-disabling strikeChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…56:04American rearmament closed Japan's remaining strategic windowNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:02:27Was Nagumo too cautious to command Kido Butai?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:17:20Did Japan consider skip bombing?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:18:35How did feigned retreat fit Japanese naval doctrine?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:20:05What if the Pacific Fleet had remained at San Diego?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:52:29Multi-carrier operations emerged from common technical pressuresNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:08:02What if Japan joined the Allies and the Soviet Union joined the Axis?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:17:30How divided were Japan's army and navy over war?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:21:16What if Hawaii had remained independent?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:02How many improved Takao Kai cruisers Japan might orderQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:12Admiral Hara inside Japan's centralized command systemQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:34What Japan's large armored cruisers were forQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:43:00Finish the Ikoma carriers before redesigning themQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:18Isuzu as a fast Japanese light cruiser and minelayerQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:40Why battleships developed pagoda mastsQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:54Would an earlier Pacific war favor Japan?Q&A
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō3:48How Japanese mentoring shaped Nagumo's apprenticeshipChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō9:00What Japanese rank language reveals about naval cultureNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō18:44The Fleet Faction's treaty security dilemmaNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō29:03Why Nagumo's prewar career is difficult to reconstructNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō32:40When defense institutions began driving Japanese policyNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō36:24A doctrinal schism between staff and fleetChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō38:26Yonai's possible role as an informal imperial counsellorNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?14:26IJN rank inflation and the problem of apprentice admiralsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?31:42A Japanese-held Midway could become a decisive-battle trapNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?37:49Japanese signals intelligence and the exceptional failure at MidwayQ&A
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?42:09Why not build the maximal fast battleship?Notable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?56:24Strategic restraint behind the finished classChapter
- 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
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:35Pearl Harbor and Japan's unfinished victoryChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...18:50Operation C exposed the limits of Japanese supportNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...20:07Japanese intelligence geography and pressure to actChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...27:31Japanese planning denied the Americans agencyNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...44:38Midway as bait after the island's captureNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:28:18Reading Japanese planning documents as public positionsNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:35:43Aircraft replacement shortfalls weakened Japan before MidwayNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:42:26Strategic desperation encouraged intelligence target fixationNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:03Why Japanese carriers prioritized refueling speed over safetyQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:40If Yamato had reached OkinawaQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:43Why Axis submarines could not readily share weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:51How early US minelaying submarines could reshape the Pacific openingQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:31What weapons Britain would choose for Japanese destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:30Why the Imperial Japanese Navy is the least attractive wartime postingQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:16The 16-inch shells adapted into Pearl Harbor bombsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:49Why equal post-Jutland fleets would fail at WashingtonQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:56:56What if Dutch submarines caught Japan's carrier force?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...29:39Was a third strike wave planned for Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...34:17How to read Fuchida's Pearl Harbor accountNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:45What a Japanese naval pilot-recovery system could preserveQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:37How Japan might assess Renown and RepulseQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:43Could Japan seek a decisive battle against the reinforced Eastern Fleet?Q&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:10Japan and the Allies race to assemble their forcesQ&A
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction48:37Royal Navy procurement faced several qualitative rivalsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned32:44Japan's Six-Six Fleet and local sea controlChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:09:13How Japanese leadership turned strategy into readinessChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:12:05The leaders who sustained Japan's Six-Six Fleet planNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:17:30How Japanese bases and political support sustained operationsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:51:31Japan's decisive-battle lesson and its dangersChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:54:37War Plan Orange anticipated Japan's battle trapNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:58:25How the Eight-Eight Fleet balanced capital-ship typesNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:18:17Tsushima revealed Japan as a first-rate naval powerNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:01Putting the Type 91 aerial torpedo's size in human scaleQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:58:21Building a sustainable Japanese fleet without naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:57What if every Axis torpedo became an early Mark 14?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:51If the United States built ten 8-inch-gun submarinesQ&A
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List8:28How to use Tameichi Hara's destroyer memoirNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List10:45Tameichi Hara from Java Sea to GuadalcanalChapter
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List12:04Hara and Shigure survive repeated Pacific battlesChapter
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List13:03Hara warns Hirohito that Japan's technology gap has lost the warNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List13:40Hara survives Yahagi and Japan's final suicide missionsChapter
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:31:03Comparative naval aviation became a Royal Navy thesisQ&A
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?3:16Geography decided whether attrition strategy could workNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:37An all-submarine Germany shifts Royal Navy power eastQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:14British submarine patrols and a Japanese surprise attackNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:12HMS Regulus shadows Hiryū during a Japanese fleet exerciseNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:28How France and Japan viewed the Dingyuan classQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:21When a Dingyuan port visit strengthened Japanese hostilityNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:43Why a secret Kii-class battleship would collapse treaty restraintQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:07Why Germany could not send its surface fleet to JapanQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:51Could Nagato, Yamato, and Kongō become museums today?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:51:42Who would control a privately completed Tosa?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:54:16Australia's Amphion-class cruiser choiceQ&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership23:47Japan's 7:10 ratio as a deterrent strategyChapter
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership26:08Japan's coerced opening shapes treaty insecurityNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership1:04:22Equal submarine tonnage masks unequal global missionsNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership1:06:57Wakatsuki wins Japan's practical 7:10 gainsChapter
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?48:36Did planning for Japan shape Dido and Atlanta?Q&A
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?3:12:33What if Halsey's Third Fleet had stayed near Samar?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:55How eighteen Japanese pre-dreadnoughts change Tsushima and HawaiiQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:15How Japan approached Pearl Harbor without being detectedQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?1:04:51Japan captured more islands than its logistics could fortifyNotable Point
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?1:11:20Tarawa connected island fortification to Japanese attrition doctrineChapter
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:56The newspaper report that exposed shallow Japanese depth chargesQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:10How the United States would answer World of Warships SatsumaQ&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty48:48Japan uses treaty limits to support economic recoveryChapter
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:03:25Wakatsuki uses the treaty to buy time for JapanChapter
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:11:19Why the treaty bought Japan timeQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:31Why Shimakaze's torpedo-heavy role was already fadingNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:24Why Pearl Harbor target priorities did not require a fixed third-wave scriptNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:52:10Why late-war Japanese aircrew limits cannot be projected back to 1941Notable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?9:54The fuel tanks Japan left intactChapter
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?39:09Why Japanese submarines might not stop the sortieNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?50:48How First World War frustrations shaped fleet doctrineNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:31:47Japan's limited counterpart to Allied motor torpedo boatsQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:53:53How early 2,000-horsepower engines would shape carriersQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?36:37Where a modern battleship might be strategically viableChapter
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?33:07Foreign navies react to an interwar carrier programNotable Point
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?1:04:45Soviet carriers strengthen Japan's treaty exitChapter
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...11:26Lost records and Japan's Type 6 torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...33:45Would earlier Japanese H6 radar change the Pacific War?Q&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:14:10Why Japan adopted the B6N JillQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:39:28Japan's long-range flying boats in the ASW roleQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:10:04Why naval colleges produce political officersQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:35:31If Halsey had stayed near the Leyte landingsQ&A
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:25Itō Sukeyuki and the leadership behind the Six-Six FleetChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class7:38Itō's command record and ten years atop the Naval General StaffChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class12:50How Japanese naval patronage turned policy into a fleet planChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class18:35Yamamoto Gonnohyōe as reformer, minister, and crisis prime ministerChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class21:00Why Japanese naval power cannot be read from formal titles aloneNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class23:16Saigō Jūdō carried naval reform into politics and the armyChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class29:02A balanced fleet means balance against national needsChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class48:04The Anglo-Japanese Alliance as a strategic force multiplierNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class56:22Torpedo investment reveals continuity in Japanese naval doctrineNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:07:06Why twelve 90-percent ships may beat ten perfect onesNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:16:18Hayabusa boats mark Japan's shift toward domestic naval constructionNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:23:02Deterrence worked because foreign powers knew the fleet's strengthChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:27:30The Six-Six Fleet as coastal siege warfare at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:19How many non-treaty heavy cruisers Japan could buildQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:28Guadalcanal and Japan's threat to Australasian shippingQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...44:25Could a reinforced Royal Navy contest Japan in the Far East?Q&A
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:25:02War plans against Japan drive carrier survivabilityNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z1:09:07Operation C could become a major Allied-Japanese carrier battleChapter
- An Indomitable Force Z1:14:09British night strikes and American daylight attacks could complement each otherNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z1:17:08Bomber losses and logistics create compounding Japanese problemsNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z1:18:48Japan's early advantage was an integrated full-spectrum forceNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z1:20:18A smaller Allied carrier force could still hurt Operation CNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z1:22:42Operation C could not simply be rushed forwardNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:26How Japan might treat a 15,500-ton cruiser limitQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:37I-200 fleet submarines versus I-400 strike boatsQ&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?6:47Why cruiser deterrence left Britain's battle-fleet strength uncertainNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?13:36How cruiser withdrawals weakened Britain's Far East deterrentNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?54:37Why the historical Japanese strike overwhelmed Force ZChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?1:32:38Why Indomitable probably saves Force Z from the air attackChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:11:43Would Japan attack carrier-equipped Force Z without fighter cover?Q&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:13:59How soon would Japan lose without Dutch East Indies oil?Q&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:17:48Would the ships recover downed pilots from either side?Q&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:18:00Would oil denial keep Yamato in home waters?Q&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:23:58Could Japan rush a smaller carrier force south?Notable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:27:20Would Japan arm its bombers differently against a carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:18Steering Japan toward a better Pacific War outcomeQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:36A better-prepared Japanese air arm at the Philippine SeaNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:25How the Yamato program would reshape Allied constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:43Why new Japanese aircraft designs depended on transport and industryNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:14How synthetic fuel changes Japan's road to warQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:54:51An uncertain I-500 successor to the I-400Q&A
- Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?21:17Japan's navy as the foundation of great-power securityChapter
- Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?1:01:02Japan and France could use the cap to catch upChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?2:03Global trade routes met an infrastructure bottleneckChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?25:39Trade protection was an insurance argumentChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?35:37Distant trade routes needed a mobile patrol backstopNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?57:38Early merchant losses had cumulative strategic costsNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command56:09Dorsetshire's loss redirects Agar to GreenwichNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command58:58Eric Brind demonstrates controlled naval diplomacy at TsingtaoChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:03:00Credible naval signaling depends on ships remaining in theaterNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:03:55Birmingham's gunlaying makes deterrence personalNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:06:00HMS Liverpool repeats Britain's East Asian signaling patternNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:19The U.S. 1.1-inch gun versus Japan's 25 mm anti-aircraft gunQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:11Why Japanese carriers relied on cruiser scoutsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:40:18A faster New Mexico class triggers a battleship speed raceQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!17:22Could a Japanese fleet operate in the South Atlantic?Q&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:33:10How a surviving Force Z could change Allied concentrationQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:55Why Japanese damage control lagged in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:37Japan's decisive-battle gamble against larger powersQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:53:48Italy, Japan, and the United States answer Britain's leapChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...0:00Why Tōgō became Japan's NelsonChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...11:00A naval apprenticeship in the Boshin WarChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...13:18Why a veteran officer became a cadet againNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...15:48From veteran officer to cadet and student in BritainChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...24:29When naval competition still included shared ideasNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...27:48Why warship action is difficult to disavowNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...31:31Landing sailors during the Imo IncidentChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...34:05Why Tōgō's first command is difficult to dateNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...35:12Why translated sources need cultural contextNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...46:08Naniwa, the Kowshing incident, and Tōgō's hard edgeChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...51:22Reconnaissance before the Battle of the Yalu RiverChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:04:58The Beiyang Fleet's defeat at the Yalu RiverChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:08:27Teaching officers and organizing the Standing FleetChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:17:09Personal networks behind Japanese combined commandNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:28:34Building infrastructure after TsushimaNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:31:32Tōgō as elder statesman and cruiser advocateChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:35:29The operational culture Tōgō left JapanChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:38:46Symbolic heroes versus the people who shape naval cultureNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II13:03If the United States joined Japan against RussiaQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II20:48Comparing Second World War damage controlQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:14:08How Yamato competed with Shokaku for Japanese resourcesQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:20:40Why aircraft carriers were not unproven before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:21:43Hirohito’s marine biology and the limits of Kantai KessenQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:26:17Why battleships briefly carried depth-charge throwersQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:28:17The missing escorts in Japan's Circle One programmeQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:31:20Vickers salesmanship and the international 14-inch gunNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:47:54Aircrew recovery as a measure of naval staying powerQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise43:50What if Mikawa attacked the Savo Island transports?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise56:58Could Hiryū have escaped Midway?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:31:39What Zuikaku needed to reach MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:34:46What would make Japan abandon the Type 93 Long Lance?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:58:53A 10:10:7 Washington Treaty fleet ratioQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:28:13What would happen to Shinano after a Japanese surrender?Q&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership56:22Why a Tachibana-class escort could not safely chase much more speedQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:03:48Why two Type IIB submarines would not transform China's war with JapanQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:36:39How fast Nelsons could destabilize the interwar treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:39:05A modern-sized Chinese fleet on the eve of war with JapanQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:01:09How giant Hokkaido oil reserves could redirect Imperial JapanQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:14:43The limited surface-combat value of Tenryu and TatsutaQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:46:13Why scuttling IJN Natori required gunfireQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership4:15:24How a Shilka-style system changes 1930s Japanese air defenseQ&A
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?59:46Fast Nelsons would outmaneuver Japanese and American battle linesChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:30:04A diesel battleship depended on solving the gearboxQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:55:42Destroyer standardization cannot ignore Japanese shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:38:21Cherry trees refers to Japanese ships cut down by WashingtonQ&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:36:10American and Japanese navies confront a faster battle lineChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:59:19Japan could replace Fuso and Ise while retaining KongoNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:04:48Why a construction holiday disadvantaged JapanNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:34:30The arms race reshapes late-1930s fleetsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:49:36Were Britain and the United States already naval partners?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:58:53Japan's 10:7 demand changes the treaty fleet balanceNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:05:48The Indian Ocean brought three Axis submarine services togetherNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 353:19Island chains need a fleet behind their fortificationsNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:39:09Why keeping the Yamato class secret weakened its deterrent valueQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:46:42What Japan gains by designing treaty ships around stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?13:02Why Japan did not prioritize more convoy escortsQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?59:36Why studying Long Lance plans was not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:25:27If the Mark 14 torpedo worked from the startQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:39:54When Japan would need a 20-inch YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:33:19Japanese carrier development without a Pacific WarQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:34:03Could Ryujo work below 10,000 tons?Q&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...36:12Why Mikasa outclasses HocheQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...38:10The expected cruiser losses behind Japan's six-six fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:42:12Osprey fleet studies on Japan and the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:31:27Why Taiho's hangar size did not guarantee a full air groupQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:16:40When US and Japanese sailors met before the Pacific WarQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...5:09:06What Japan could do without attacking Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...5:13:17Why two capital ships offered a limited deterrent against JapanNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings37:44USS Sealion's radar pursuit and the sinking of KongōChapter
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:07:42The Gilbert Islands response costs Japan six submarinesNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:08:20I-175 exploits a screen gap to destroy Liscome BayChapter
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:22:39The torpedoes Nagato avoided destroy UrakazeNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:24:18Shinano's course choices keep Archerfish in contactChapter
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:35:15Japan's secrecy obscures Shinano's lossNotable Point
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...12:18Training, maintenance, and institutional memoryNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:25:50Was Japan a technological peer of the United States in 1941?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:27:50How peacetime exchange helped Japan become a naval peerNotable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:15:53Why an Asama-class cruiser overwhelms HocheQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:22:49Japanese cruiser capacity depended on yard investmentQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:35:08Eleven Ganguts could reverse TsushimaQ&A
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...10:16Japanese radar and night-flying limitations in 1941Notable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo1:15:19How reconstruction moved Kongō toward a fast battleshipChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo1:25:38Sealion's radar approach against KongōChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:49:23Wildcat formations and the limits of the Thach WeaveNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:20:49Could a small free Korean navy survive the Pacific War?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:08:49Essay: the secret Amagi intelligence fileChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:25:01How US and Japanese participation at Jutland might reshape night fightingQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:58:06Admiral Togo as prime minister after the First World WarQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:02:01What if Japan adopted British carrier training?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:35:47Why Taranto did not create the Pearl Harbor planQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:21:55Why one warship could hold hundreds of viewpointsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:25:15Soryu's D4Y aircraft and the loss of learning opportunities at MidwayQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:25:30KGVs for Germany and Lions for Japan in a delayed warQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/411:51Cunningham, Lee, or Mikawa in a night actionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/428:44Japan joining the Central Powers could bring America in soonerQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/439:23A carrier victory would not solve Japan's Midway invasion problemsNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/452:41Future Japanese battleships turn Tsushima into annihilationQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/459:30What 1936 foreknowledge would change in British Pacific defenseQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:22:21Why a rogue wave has no fixed damage thresholdQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:02:31When treaty battleship ratios outrun national economiesQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:08:44Japanese anti-submarine shells for five-inch gunsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:32:32A Japanese light-cruiser successor would resemble ŌyodoQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:38:51What Japan might build instead of YamatoQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/43:09:38Concentrating a Japanese super-battleship battery amidshipsChapter
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:00:51Could Japan fit ten 14-inch guns on a 25,000-ton battleship?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:11:03Testing a 1914 Japanese ten-gun battleshipChapter
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:04:18Eight Dutch dreadnoughts would reshape treaties and Far Eastern defenseQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:08:17Japanese battleships and the doctrine behind their sizeNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:34:25A battlecruiser Incomparable fighting Kido ButaiQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:15:52Japan's ratio in an enlarged treaty counterfactualQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:33:23How a converted Incomparable would be judged after a carrier battleQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/431:52An Allied Japan would preserve mixed carrier and capital-ship fleetsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:48:34Why an early naval-treaty collapse would not hand the Axis parityQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:12:28If Rozhestvensky's fleet reached Vladivostok intactQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:29:31What Japan's Eight-Eight fleet plan actually soughtQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:34:50Early I-400 operations would pull American escorts homeQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:05:51Why no major navy should build only battlecruisersQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:40:16The Aleutian carriers give Japan another chance at MidwayQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:56:56Domestic oil would give Japan time, not solve its warQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:31:31The Amagi essay preserved the Great Kanto earthquake as a real constraintNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:55:55Why Japan did not follow Pearl Harbor with an invasionQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:05:26Destroying Kido Butai opens Japan's defensive perimeterQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:23:10An alerted battle should still be decided by carriersQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:35:30Japan could still recall the midget-submarine attackQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:36:28How indirect imperial action could remove TojoChapter
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax21:52Why removing one IJN faction would not produce a unified navyQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax28:13What IJA-IJN cooperation could and could not changeQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax31:04What Yonai's leadership reveals about Nagumo's reputationQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:31:08An uncrewed dream fleet first becomes a logistics crisisQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:35:36A Japan outside the Pacific War redirects Allied and Soviet strategyQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:47:42Ozawa would face Nagumo's same Pearl Harbor constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:58:29Why Japan would verify a report of 12-inch American destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax5:15:43Equal fuel quality does not equalize naval logisticsQ&A
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?4:17Genro and the machinery of informal imperial adviceChapter
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?16:20Why Mitsumasa Yonai could act as an imperial adviserNotable Point
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?50:16Yonai's protected status and personal networkNotable Point
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?53:28Yonai's naval moderation and economic prioritiesChapter
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?1:29:13Why the navy could be decisive in a civil warNotable Point
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?1:39:44Why an early rebellion could favor YonaiNotable Point
- So what happens in the Pacific if Italy stays neutral for WWII?1:04:12British and American forces trap the Kido ButaiChapter
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:13:51A Japanese jet fighter against the F6F HellcatQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:23:28Japanese pilot attrition and American tactical learningNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:08:40Why Japan wanted a seventy-percent treaty ratioQ&A
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 10857:27Nagano's oil warning and direct access to the emperorNotable Point
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1081:09:43How the armed services could bring down a Japanese cabinetNotable Point
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1081:13:31Yonai's naval offices and role in the counterfactualChapter
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1081:53:22Could Yonai stop the Indochina deployment in four days?Notable Point
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1082:25:47Japanese radar and the cost of service rivalryNotable Point
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1082:34:52How delay changes Japan's attrition doctrineChapter
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1082:47:08Civil war could remake Japan's Cold War alignmentChapter
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1082:53:43A delayed Pacific war gives Japan time to rearmChapter
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1083:08:44Naval and industrial networks inside Konoe's cabinetNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...37:05Why Japanese aviation technology should not be dismissedQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:07:45Could a British force defeat Japan at Surigao Strait?Q&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:42:31Japan might buy the Philippines instead of invading themQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:54:42The Allies sought Japanese technology after 1945, but found less intact materialQ&A
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!19:17Early theorists shape the language of later doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:09:29Why a 16-inch Kongō rebuild would be a radical compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:36:10How an oversized Japanese cruiser fleet could distort treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:55:47A Japanese defeat in China could deepen Army-Navy conflictQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:43:03A 20-inch Tillman II would destroy the treaty pauseQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.19:13Japan joining Spain in the Spanish-American WarQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.57:31A 10:10:7:4:4 Washington treaty ratioQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:49:32Fast Nagatos and the Washington TreatyQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....18:56Why Admiral Yonai refused a naval carNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:33:06Guadalcanal as luck, communications, and attritionQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!20:34How larger treaty-free carriers would reshape air groupsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!29:05Japan's aviation training system under early rival expansionQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!33:59Why Japan saw the United States as a strategic threatNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!37:18How reconnaissance protected Japan's decisive-battle planQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!39:23Why Japan struggled once the United States seized the initiativeQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!41:25The Anglo-American coalition and Japan's resource problemNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!42:26Midway and Coral Sea as attempts to reset decisive battleNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin57:54Using Second World War carrier lessons with careChapter
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:10:30Yamato and Musashi in the Guadalcanal night battlesQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:42:29If Japan took Spain's Pacific empire instead of the United StatesQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:22:13Japan joins Britain and France against Germany and the Soviet UnionQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:26:49Who watched Royal Navy carrier anti-piracy exercisesQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:17:50Higher treaty limits would not resolve the naval balance problemQ&A
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier46:23Treaty submarine parity and confidence in ASDICNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:31:59Why Japan discarded captured Russian warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:34:08Could Imperial Japanese service rivalry have produced civil war?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:36:08Night carrier doctrine and an earlier Pearl Harbor strikeQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!29:57Why Britain did not rebuild its early aircraft carriers like JapanQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!33:28Japanese submarine raids on the US West Coast would harden American retaliationQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:18:43A sudden 1939 capital-ship windfall would trigger a British building panicQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:40:14More Japanese carriers would still require more trained aviatorsQ&A
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier54:14Britain's Far East logistics plan meets a changing threatNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:06:22Trade routes define strategic enduranceNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:09:33Japan's expansion outpaces its ability to sustain itChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:11:35Japan's resource options impose different transport risksNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!5:18Three naval powers, three strategic problemsNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!56:57How imperial defence policy became a recurring planning instrumentNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!59:27When deterrent capability became strategic surpriseNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!22:02Japan's Kaga-derived post-Washington battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:35:18If Japan's 25 mm antiaircraft gun worked like the OerlikonQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!2:48:49Would a merely improved Hellcat still beat the Zero?Q&A
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!31:20Interwar threat assumptions behind carrier planningNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!38:53USS Copahee and the strategic value of aircraft ferryingNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!53:09British carrier doctrine for persistent air threats and night battleNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:45:3718-inch guns and a Washington Treaty counterfactualChapter
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:13:46Why smaller fast battleships do not solve Japan's problemQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:20:26The most useful Axis naval technology exchangesQ&A
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers1:26:18Tsingtao echoes Fisher's response to TsushimaNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!27:53Why Japan was the Royal Navy's hardest planning caseNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...51:44If Force Z survived, it could anchor an Allied carrier forceQ&A
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:21:07Battleship-scale carrier allowances would favour the Royal NavyQ&A
- Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,41:40Range existed, but trained crews may not haveNotable Point
- Ilyushin DB-3 & Il-4: Great Patriotic War Soviet Torpedo Bombers - Key Aircraft Series 2,44:17Vladivostok opens a 1939 minelaying counterfactualNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right9:30Japanese design ambition and the limits of stabilityNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:34:04Wasp and the logic of a large submarine torpedo salvoNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:45:28Santa Cruz and Japan's costly aircrew lossesNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:53:56Santa Cruz and the time needed to launch a carrier strikeNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:07:07Foreign responses to Admiral-class carriersQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:50:20Documentary proof and historical inferenceQ&A
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:50The 5.5-inch naval gun as a path not takenNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?46:16Could British neutrality shape a US-Japan war?Q&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote18:42A European war delayed to 1942Q&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote29:53Who benefits when the Second World War is delayedQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote47:00More reliable torpedoes at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:35:35America joins the Franco-Russian sideQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:27:11Who underestimated Japanese capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:30:46The British route toward Japan from the westQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:43:04Why Royal Navy manpower differed from Japan'sQ&A
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 342:55Canals and infrastructure impose different carrier-design limitsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:19:494.7-inch cruisers at GuadalcanalQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:16:27The dubious appeal of a 10-inch treaty cruiser gunQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:28:11Why the US and Japan wanted large carriersQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:32:44Implacable versus Akagi in a night surface actionQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends9:48Why the IJN planned around implausible steel forecastsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:11:33Lion-class guns and maximum practicable rangeQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:56:46Testing a 6:6:4:2:2 capital-ship ratioQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:54:34Why larger heavy cruisers would affect US and Japanese light cruisers differentlyQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:56:42An Allied Japan reshapes the early Cold WarQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:48:00A B-17 crashing into a Japanese carrier at MidwayQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:30:52Q&A: Did the Imperial Japanese Navy use HIJMS?Q&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:36:35Q&A: Using a ship prefix to distinguish Mikasa from a personQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins28:20How Mediterranean combat might reshape the A6M ZeroQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:12:04What ending Japanese Army-Navy duplication could changeQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:30:31How range determines a useful torpedo broadsideQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:35:57What public knowledge of Yamato could triggerNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:38:53Shell splash dyes versus colored muzzle flashesQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed29:34Could Japan supply Germany with 41 cm guns?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:45:26How to assess Yamato's armour qualityQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:48:31IJN factionalism and weak operational supportQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:48Why interwar navies built different kinds of carriersChapter
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier5:19Why carrier reputations followed wartime opportunityNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built30:49Why Japanese radar inventions did not become fleet-wide capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:15:24Carrier armor layouts are calculated risksQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:37:24Why a Japanese 40 mm gun has no fixed development timelineQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:40:45Why better Japanese anti-aircraft guns do not yield a simple Midway resultQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:15:08Why Japan could not simply match a larger Australian fleetQ&A
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 834:01German catapult experience was not a unique advantageNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:05:53How defeating von Spee could elevate Japan's wartime naval roleQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:01:33When Japanese battleships demanded a distinct British answerQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:39:12What rivets reveal about naval construction standardsNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?5:01:36Could Japan turn the Type 91 pom-pom into an effective AA gun?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:25:19Why did Japan standardize around the Type 96 25 mm gun?Q&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions34:44How wreck surveys overturn torpedo-explosion storiesQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:42:20Why delaying the European war to 1948 favors an experienced BritainQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:18:10What a Long Lance and Mark 14 swap reveals about doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:55:33What continuous cruiser building preserves and constrainsQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 644:49Small battleship studies as a political exerciseNotable Point
- So you want to be a youtube Historian?18:28Hunting for Sato Tetsutaro's naval thoughtNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London57:06Parity with Japan unlocks a six-power bargainChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:03:50Would opposition in Japan prevent acceptance of Soviet parity?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:25:10A Soviet Pacific fleet could add a naval front to the 1939 fightingNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:12:16Three treaty battleships become stepping stones to YamatoChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:19:31Would Japan revive Russo-Japanese War names for its new battleships?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:38:02How would the Netherlands respond to larger Japanese battleships?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London3:10:22The wider war may begin in the Soviet-Japanese Far EastNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 528:58Italy at the center of a qualitative dreadnought raceNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait32:58Solomons geography and logistics point toward RabaulChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait48:52Japanese withdrawal exposes pilot, industrial, and convoy-defense shortagesChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait57:19Did Japan's army and navy deliberately use incompatible parts?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait59:47Second Fleet organizes Japan's Solomons strike powerChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:12:10Japanese interservice rivalry duplicated capabilities and obstructed coordinationNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:24:14Guadalcanal's evacuation shifted Japanese strength northChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:03:08American advances invert Japan's attrition planNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:07:30Ad hoc destroyer pairings eroded Japan's prewar night-fighting systemChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:11:03Destroyer supply runs reveal Japan's logistics trapChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:49:12Were Japanese supply destroyers stripped of weapons?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:05:32Why did Japan favor torpedoes before gunfire at night?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:07:48Bombardment damage mattered less than irreplaceable destroyer lossesNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:11:12Japan's defensive perimeter created a resource-security Catch-22Notable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:15:09Blackett Strait signals a shift in control of the nightNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:19:54Was U.S. Navy night fighting inherently inferior?Q&A
- The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War8:20How exercises carried World War I biases forwardChapter
- The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War38:48Naval aviation over TsingtaoChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books15:26Why Yubari's test-bed design stayed conservativeQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:50Phantom warships in wartime intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:17:12Who benefits from larger treaty destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:29:53Furutaka under a 9.2-inch cruiser treatyQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:32:43Why cruiser missions matter more than a 10-inch gun ruleQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:47:31Tenryu and Kuma in postwar cruiser planningQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:55:14A treaty loophole for improved Hermes-type carriersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:00:03Why the Washington Treaty cut the Sendai program shortQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:01:38Why Japan needed the Katori training cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:04:10An 8,000-ton Japanese dual-purpose cruiser proposalQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:26:08Would Tsushima happen without the Russian signal?Q&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:33:41If Germany bought Ryujo for carrier experienceQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:35:59Mikasa in a comparison of preserved warshipsQ&A
- Navys in the Embassy Bar after the Washington Treaty(1922)4:53Five treaty navies meet after WashingtonChapter
- Navys in the Embassy Bar after the Washington Treaty(1922)7:31Japan's treaty ratio meets army rivalryNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered17:03Why invading Australia would overwhelm Japanese logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered47:19What early Japanese jets demand from wartime carriersQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:07:10Japan joins the Allies and follows Taranto at dawnQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:14:14How an Allied Japan changes the Atlantic warQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:08:14Would a Japanese Taranto attack change Pearl Harbor readiness?Q&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!37:10One force-design improvement for each major World War II navyQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!45:10Japan could replace oxygen torpedoes without changing the Pacific War aloneQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:20:55An 18-inch treaty standard could push Japan toward 20- or 22-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:03:58Why removing torpedoes from US cruisers was defensibleQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:07:07Tillman's racism could distort the Japanese treaty ratio in opposite directionsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:44:14Japan could not seize southern resources without hitting Allied interestsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:54:30American isolationism did not exclude defending the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!4:05:30A 9.2-inch Exeter would face stronger Japanese treaty cruisers tooQ&A
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty3:20Two different prewar naval arms racesChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:05:45Japan and Italy gain room to buildChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:13:00Extra treaty tonnage changes carrier developmentChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:26:09A higher Allied baseline pressures Yamato and the AxisChapter
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 325:22Why Japan framed British prewar amphibious planningNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:15:03Adding Russia breaks the Washington treaty hierarchyChapter
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:21:39Could Russia replace Japan in a naval treaty?Q&A
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:52:24How would a resurgent Russian navy change Japanese politics?Q&A
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:12:33What would Stalin demand at a London naval conference?Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered13:49Could British G3 and N3 studies have influenced Japanese battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered18:43Why Japanese battleships developed pagoda mastsNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered19:03How Allied Japan might deter Italy in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered41:16The operational cost of Japan's specialized warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered58:30A sixteen-gun Japanese alternative to YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:27:36Moving the Great Kanto earthquake to 1941Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:25:40When Japan would recognize a larger County-class threatQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:12:39Would larger County cruisers require a Japanese battlecruiser response?Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:20:53Carrier parity under a different Washington treatyQ&A
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:22:50Three navies built different carrier task-force modelsChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:30:14Japan trades older hulls for Tosa or AmagiChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:04:16Japan must choose between battleships and carrier conversionsChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:08:26Japan's carrier loophole competes with major constructionQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:19:38Extra tonnage amplifies national cruiser doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:31:51More treaty construction does not guarantee a larger YamatoQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:34:17Carriers already serve the decisive-battle strategyQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...3:04:51Soviet participation breaks the treaty ratio systemQ&A
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began38:20Japan's Wakamiya and the Tsingtao air strikesChapter
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began50:22Buying aircraft is not building a capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!7:25Why Soviet participation could destabilize the London Naval TreatyNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!18:12A Soryu-derived German carrier and the British responseQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!40:41How early US night-carrier doctrine could reshape the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:00:23What preserving Yamato could reveal about Japanese armorQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19422:05:42Why navies built battleships and carriers togetherNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19423:35:48Minimal physical damage, major strategic disruptionChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development25:39Operational geography shapes British naval fightersNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development33:14Flycatcher agility becomes peacetime naval signallingNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:16:52Japan as a British supplier in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:18:18How a destroyed Kriegsmarine changes Japan's war choiceQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:45:37Gangut and Colossus dreadnoughts at TsushimaQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:49:04Why a stronger Dutch navy still avoids war with JapanQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:16:40If Japan takes the Philippines before the Russo-Japanese WarQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:48:05Britain and America rearm when Japan leaves the treatiesQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships6:30Ise and Hyuga as compromised battle-carriersChapter
- Twelve Odd Ships12:34Japanese recruiting lagged behind new warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered20:52Japanese naval officer selection and force planningQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered25:41If Japan joined the Allies in June 1940Q&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered31:23If Japan retained the 40 mm pom-pomQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered45:56An Allied Japanese carrier fleet against ItalyQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered48:49What navies would do with a 15,000-ton cruiser limitQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:34:50How four Ryūjō-class carriers could change treaty categoriesQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:18:30How wartime helicopters could pressure US submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:23:00The cruiser race hidden inside the Washington treatyQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:30:56Why engineering talent is a force multiplierNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:04:36The helicopter race spreads beyond Britain and AmericaChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time8:35A 1930 war favors the Royal Navy's aviation leadQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time15:48Japanese night carrier doctrine changes opening-strike optionsQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time25:58Chinese replacement orders would probably follow Japan toward British yardsQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time27:42British intelligence saw Yamato but misjudged her gun caliberQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time52:17An Eastern Fleet victory erases the Pacific carrier-war sequenceQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:24:01A four-book path from fleet overview to command biographyChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:29:25Cloud over Pearl Harbor hinders attackers and defenders differentlyQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:33:09A royal marriage could keep Japan aligned with Britain in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:58:01Japan misread an attritional enemy through a decisive-battle traditionQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:12:32An Allied Japan makes Pearl Harbor strategically incoherentQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:19:33A directory maps Imperial Japanese Navy commands and captainsChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:27:00Kaigun connects Japanese strategy, tactics, and technologyChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:27:40Kaigun traces the Zero and Kate as an integrated carrier-air systemChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:32:42A careerist officer system could not keep pace with Japanese fleet expansionChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:47:40Without Washington, the naval race settles into recurring small batchesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:54:53Mark Stille's Pacific War volume as an accessible fleet guideChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:56:24Japanese light cruisers evolved from scouts into destroyer leadersChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time4:17:23Why Midway's bombardment ships followed the carriersQ&A
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?53:41Alpha strikes versus continuous carrier operationsChapter
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?55:09Night carrier operations required money and research depthNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:00:01Hermes balances structure, hangar space, and experimental serviceChapter
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:15:14Treaties divert national carrier design pathsNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō16:31Why 10,000 tons also became the cruiser ceilingNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō18:30Why cruiser and carrier roles conflictedChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō22:06Kongō modernization points toward carrier task groupsNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō29:02Fleet exercises had already exposed the hybrid's problemNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō36:37Ryūjō's treaty-driven design and stability problemsChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō39:10Ryūjō's practical 1942 air groupChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō40:54Japan's choice between stronger strikes and more flight decksNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō43:47Ryūjō's Henderson Field strike drains its air groupChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō46:58Enterprise finds Ryūjō and Saratoga sinks herChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō49:42Why small carriers were pushed into fleet-carrier workNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō51:04A 1924 flight-deck-cruiser counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books5:57How faster N3 and G3 designs change treaty bargainingQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books7:54Why Japan built torpedo cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:26:16Japan joins Germany in September 1939Q&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:32:31Japan's captured Russian ships after 1905Q&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:36:38The Royal Navy and the Sino-Japanese Incident, 1937-41Chapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:20:34The Washington treaty allowed new carriers as well as conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:27:06Why US and Japanese fleets differed from the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:41:40How many 1941 Admiral-class heavy cruisers Britain might buildQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:50:38The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air ServiceChapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:04:12Who benefits from a 15,000-ton, 9.2-inch cruiser limitQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:08:29What forty County-class cruisers do to treaty fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:15:13The naval race if World War I never beginsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:49:41How one navy leaving the treaty system affects everyoneQ&A
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers21:54The prewar naval technology race beyond GermanyNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers38:50Carrier and aircraft design reveal doctrineNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers40:30Wakamiya at Tsingtao and the Cuxhaven RaidChapter
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s29:17Why rival navies might struggle to copy Britain's leadChapter
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:37:35A wider Pacific technology gap complicates Japanese strategyNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence47:05HMS Folkestone adds local knowledge at TientsinChapter
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!27:59A no-treaty Japanese battlefleet would keep expandingQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!28:32Triple turrets could improve Mikasa but an aft-heavy layout remains awkwardQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!42:04Yamato could plausibly carry twelve 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:32:55A fully alert Pearl Harbor could still suffer from badly distributed defensesQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:34:12A 9.2-inch treaty limit would pull rival cruisers toward the British calibreQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:41:23Forty County-class cruisers would inflate the whole treaty tonnage ladderQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:28:53Rival navies face different barriers to matching BritainChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19283:09:14Why the British turbine lead creates a Japanese nightmareQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:20:41HMS Folkestone at the Singtao incidentChapter
- Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 238:27Japanese naval aviation followed the Cuckoo from the beginningNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 617:29Planning against strong Japanese ASWNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 113:19Observers shaped Royal Navy aviation doctrineChapter
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...21:57A Japanese night bombardment of Pearl Harbor trades surprise for delayQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...25:35Early Philippine independence would not remove the Japanese threatQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...30:34Without the Great Kanto earthquake, Amagi replaces Kaga as a carrierQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:05:26Axis battleship gunnery failures had different national causesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:13:57Japan might repeat Hosho while America moves beyond LangleyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:27:13Heavily armed British ships force every rival to answerQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:35:59Prewar naval mistakes in carriers, destroyers, intelligence, and strategyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:57:07More submarines could strengthen Japan's defence perimeterQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:07:40Battery production constrained Japan's submarine forceQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:11:54Minelaying submarines could carry Japan's war to the American coastQ&A
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike11:16The Falklands comparison and Japan's blue-water reachNotable Point
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike12:49Japanese doctrine beyond the decisive battleChapter
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike20:13Ambush, attrition, and the political trapChapter
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike1:15:32How to test alternative surprise attacksNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: A Dangerous Destroyer to Behold - KSS3 S1 Comment Response7:45Tribal-class destroyers in a Guadalcanal night actionQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 218:59Far East planning for a dangerous southern advanceNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 225:23Command culture from Tsushima to task forcesChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?6:19The planning paradox behind Pearl HarborChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?9:19Why Panama suggested sabotage rather than a carrier strikeQ&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?18:09How seriously did Japan rate the American carriers?Q&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?20:20Japanese doctrine was a planning system, not one battle sloganNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?22:07Attrition before the decisive battleChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?29:59A timely declaration would trade surprise for a stronger lureNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?45:05Could Japan damage dams near San Francisco?Q&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:37:17Declare war, then waitChapter
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response29:06Japan's stronger hand in a Versailles naval settlementQ&A
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response37:32Super-battleships pull destroyers toward Daring sizeNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out23:35Akagi's possible peacetime longevityQ&A
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response17:29The Long Lance was designed to threaten any capital shipQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response41:59What Germany could learn from foreign carrier operationsQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:34:37Why Taranto and Pearl Harbor needed different fighter plansQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy13:25Where the modernized Kongo class fitsNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy42:46Why Japan's coastal logistics magnified blockade pressureNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:07:17Kongo modernization traded coal security for oil performanceNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:58:10Would a Kongo make a better carrier conversion than Kaga?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:03:07Previous victories shaped Japan's expectation of negotiated peaceNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War29:48Why Russia's paper strength could not reach the battleNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War34:59Japan assembled a layered order of battleChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War59:25Cruiser depth made Japan's battle line more than four shipsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:02:21Mikasa embodied Japan's range and material advantagesNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:07:59The six-six fleet made armored cruisers force multipliersNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:25:53Japan built, bought, and reassigned ships to useful rolesChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:30:17Japan gave legacy ships bounded supporting rolesNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War2:16:05Tsushima became Japan's model decisive battleChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships53:56Why a British carrier lead might not trigger an immediate raceQ&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?25:59Why a common-hull fleet is more plausible for JapanNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?31:45A Japanese-inspired German fleet carrierChapter
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett7:24Britain's changing threats in the 1930sNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 84:42Japan's British-built Six-Six FleetChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 810:48Deterrence through a costly Six-Six Fleet fightNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 824:16Foreign powers misread Japan's battleship programNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 844:41Matching the Great White Fleet in Japanese watersNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:35:48Why no A-140 design solves Japan's yard limitsQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:37:52Japan needed shipbuilding infrastructure before a larger fleetQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?17:09Putting combat lessons into practiceNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:11:27The Japanese scratch force and its command burdenChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:15:28Why the Japanese formation really was a scratch forceQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:18:29Matsuji Ijuin's connections and command recordNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:23:48Sentaro Omori's command background and reliefNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:34:16Why Japanese ships collided in complex battlesQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:37:13Factional alignments inside the Japanese commandQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:38:33How to use Combined Fleet as a historical sourceQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:39:53Japan's radar problem was production as well as inventionQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:15:13Uncontrolled aggression destroys HatsukazeNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:21:22Why Japanese destroyer squadrons had light-cruiser leadersNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:22:33Kantai Kessen began with an attrition problemNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:27:27A tipping point in Japanese fleet cohesionQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:39:08Were surface ships using hydrophones in this battle?Q&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:41:37Captain Hara's role at Empress Augusta BayQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)0:40Empress Augusta Bay and the officers who shaped the postwar navyChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)35:48The Japanese formation mixed ships and command layersChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)40:00Omori's retreat reflected the balance of force at nightNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)42:11Omori later directed the Kaiten special-attack programNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)43:02Aggression became dangerous when it outran formation controlNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)1:08:48An uncontrolled attack unraveled Japan's torpedo formationNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...26:00Russian capital ships for a Black Sea risk fleetChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...28:27What completed Borodinos might have changedNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:03:43Japan's Eight-Eight fleet meets yard capacityChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:11:37How institutions shaped British, American, and Japanese ship plansNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:31:03Yamato and the ultimate-weapon trapNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty11:23The 5:5:3 ratio and America’s fifteen-ship battle lineNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty22:14Carrier limits, ratios, and the conversion exceptionNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:22:57Japan keeps the Kongōs and gains new capital-ship optionsChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:33:41Why uninterrupted shipbuilding changes later warship designNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:34:40How continuous orders accelerate guns and capital-ship designNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:39:56Why Kaga replaced Amagi after the earthquakeQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:44:12How new capital ships reshape Japanese cruisers and destroyersQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:44:32Why Japan keeps the Kongōs instead of converting themQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:48:56Treaty pressure and Japan's top-heavy destroyersQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:31:57A 28-knot treaty world makes America's battle line obsoleteNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:57:15Larger carriers reshape the interwar fleetChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:02:50A light-carrier category creates new American and Japanese branchesNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:08:35A less insecure Japan may stay in the treaty systemNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:10:28How overwhelming deterrence can create insecurityNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:15:49Taranto, Japan, and a radically different Second World WarChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:20:54Japan's treaty stake opens an Anglo-Japanese pathNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:31:55Japan may still pursue torpedo destroyers as an offsetQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:35:15Why an Anglo-Japanese alliance could draw America into the warQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:40:23China remains the hardest contradiction in an Anglo-Japanese allianceQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:43:19A different post-war balance after Anglo-Japanese victoryQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series31:36Japan's treaty choice would not solve its structureQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series40:58World War II priorities varied by navyQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:44:05A surviving Russian Empire at the Washington conferenceQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7:37Why institutions shape the technology a navy can useNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs59:17Japan's torpedo-boat line met the Pacific badlyChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:02:38Japanese torpedo salvos versus British close-range night fightingNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:06:47The Type 51 and Japan's mass-production problemNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:17:27Shin'yō suicide boats and strategic desperationNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:11:17Japan's pursuit of destroyer-killing torpedo boatsChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:16:46Japan's Type 14 and Type 38 motor torpedo boatsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:20:57Why Japan's Type 51 was not a German SchnellbootNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:26:52Good-enough boats versus borrowed perfectionNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:34:28Shinyo boats and the defence of Japan's home islandsChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre2:22:43Why so many G-5s remained in the Soviet Pacific FleetNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:19:38How a larger treaty limit would reshape YamatoQ&A
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian2:34How destroyers grew into cruiser and aviation rolesNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian19:44Why secrecy weakened Yamato's deterrent valueNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!56:19Who first turned battleship shells into armour-piercing bombsQ&A
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII45:04SS British Chivalry and the boundary between sinking a ship and a war crimeChapter
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:06:28Tjisalak: armed resistance, massacre, and care for survivorsChapter
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:16:08SS Behar's distress call and the captivity of survivorsChapter
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:22:14SS Behar: killing orders, officer resistance, and postwar trialsChapter
- Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 611:45Battle-line support shaped German large cruisersChapter
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 323:12The cost of a heavily armed German battlecruiserChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built2:56:11Treaty ratios for an unaligned Pacific naval powerQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 433:00Japanese capital ships and Russian strategic memoryQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!51:18If civilian politicians retained control in JapanQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:41:45What Japan could replace after the Kantō earthquakeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:46:42Why U.S. and Japanese 18-inch gun tests led to different answersQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:37:04Why minelaying submarines could outperform aircraft-carrying boatsQ&A
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 422:15Ignoring useful foreign naval solutionsNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 449:19The Royal Navy's three-theatre nightmareNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:13:07Completed Admirals could transform the Washington settlementNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:19:44Japan could afford a fixed ten-to-seven capital-ship ratioQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:34:16Japanese radar parity in Pacific night battlesQ&A
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?31:06Why 30, 19, and 17 were not equivalent cutsNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?3:06:07Hara Takashi and an interrupted civilian-control precedentNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?3:12:57Japan's naval minister, diplomats, and political advisersChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:59:24What a Japanese victory at Attu would provokeQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:16:22Could Japanese surface ships reach the Americans in gun range?Q&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:04:52A 1939-40 Pacific war before the Kido Butai maturedQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:11:06Why the Kido Butai did not bring every carrier to Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:35:40How aircraft range expresses carrier doctrineQ&A
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock37:03Battlecruisers as a risky second lineChapter
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:00:30Kongō class for the Pacific and battle lineChapter
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:36:42Battlecruiser squadrons and Japan's 8-8 planNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:48:08Why each navy wanted a different battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:58:41Japanese planning did not expect a long shipping warQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:00:42A US battle line at Samar would win, but not without lossesQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:18:46Japan needed concentration rather than dispersionQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:57:43Guadalcanal exposed command failures as well as technical gapsNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:07:30Why Japan's elite naval pilots were hard to replaceNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!1:03:09Why Japan made limited use of commerce raidingQ&A
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway0:51Why Midway was not Japan's fully concentrated decisive battleChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway4:43American war planning refused Japan's expected Pacific chargeNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway19:18Carrier commonality and Japan's constrained alternativesChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway31:10Japan's carrier force had too few escortsChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway37:51Fragmented operations weakened Japan's usable forceNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway40:52Command pressure made strategic restraint difficultNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway53:07Japan needed cheaper escorts alongside elite destroyersNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway56:39Yamato and the opportunity cost of naval megaprojectsNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:01:24Class labels can conceal standardised destroyer familiesNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:07:15Force balance mattered more than raw Midway totalsChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:11:35More ships could dilute attacks on Japan's carriersNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses38:17How Soviet naval ambition could fuel an international arms raceChapter
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?6:41Japanese treaty acceptance and the Nagato classQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat27:49Yorktown with the Asiatic FleetQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat48:19When experimental carriers force treaty definitions to changeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:35:55If Japan concentrated on the Philippines instead of Pearl HarborQ&A
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:40:04Yamato's protection and secondary batteryNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:48:17Night fighting, range, and revealing gun flashesNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...3:06:47When major warships were captured in combatQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 210:12Corbett's contemporary study of the Russo-Japanese WarNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 21:31:02Why darkness complicated Japanese carrier strikesNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine45:25Fubuki firepower versus stabilityNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine51:51Mogami's gun upgrade did not rebalance the cruiserChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine55:19Ryujo's second hangar overwhelmed a light hullChapter
- Saint Names for G3s & N3s10:09Japanese warship names and domestic mythologyNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 50:29Why Japan wanted large cruisersChapter
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 511:11Amagi's place in the Eight-Eight FleetChapter
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 515:06Why Kaga replaced Amagi in the carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 521:21The Eight-Eight Fleet as qualitative deterrenceChapter
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 523:42If naval limitation waited until 1930Notable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 529:08Industrial networks behind Japanese capital-ship plansNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...56:39Italy and Japan drew on Britain's maritime industrial networkNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:22:42Fubuki's firepower needed a broader hullChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:31:37Should Japan have built larger fleet destroyers before the London Treaty?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:34:54Mogami was prepared for bigger guns but not better protectionChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:39:27Did Mogami's damage-control officer deserve praise?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:44:53Could Mogami have been built to accept more armour?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:48:37Ryujo's second hangar undermined a viable light carrierChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:54:17What could six simpler Ryujo-class carriers have changed?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:22:36Carrier designs reflected strike and sustained-operation doctrinesNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:11:06When did Britain learn that Japan was building Yamato?Q&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:53:56After Palau: rebuilding air groups and preparing for the MarianasNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:56:41Why the U.S. and Japan retained armored cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:14:59Midway's withdrawal and the losses after the carrier battleChapter
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:16:38Midway timing in Sea Battles in Close-UpChapter
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:12:20Where to find the most interesting unbuilt cruisersQ&A
- Battle of Hakodate, The Boshin War & the Origin Story of Tōgō Heihachirō21:41An Imperial Navy before it became nationalChapter
- Battle of Hakodate, The Boshin War & the Origin Story of Tōgō Heihachirō41:13Togo's apprenticeship aboard Kasuga MaruNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate, The Boshin War & the Origin Story of Tōgō Heihachirō47:40Satsuma and Choshu loyalties shape the armed forcesNotable Point
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 412:22Scouting, information denial, and Japanese rivalsChapter
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)12:52Why Hakodate mattered beyond HokkaidoChapter
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)1:13:12Did Japan's services inherit British and French alignments?Q&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)1:27:28An imperial navy assembled from domain fleetsNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)1:38:19From Confederate Stonewall to imperial KotetsuChapter
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)2:29:08Fleet imbalance and the Hokkaido landingsChapter
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)2:37:46Togo's route from Satsuma gunner to imperial admiralNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 326:36A K3 counterfactual: treaty limits and rival responsesNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 328:50Yamato-level firepower, not Yamato-level protectionNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...56:31How Japan might answer a 10-inch American cruiserNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:11:31Volume of fire versus protection in a cruiser duelNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:38:52Why costly Japanese destroyer resistance could distort the attrition pictureNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:43:47Why an outranged battleship force may need to close earlyNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:04:24Why equal-cost fleet comparisons can misleadQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus23:01Japan, the Great White Fleet, and the PhilippinesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus25:55What better Japanese army-navy cooperation changesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus50:05How a larger French fleet rewrites treaty arithmeticQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:21:00A Washington treaty category for scout carriersChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:49:33Could Japan present Soryu as a scout carrier?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:51:39Why foreign carrier responses cannot be predicted in detailQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:57:08A higher carrier ceiling gives foreign navies different choicesNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:11:48Scout carriers push Japanese cruisers toward fighting powerQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:13:12Japan's scout-carrier allowance favours a size tradeoffNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:27:32Foreign navies need not use their carrier allowances alikeNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword42:45Interwar research into autoloading capital-ship gunsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:33:50How Nimitz could unravel Japan's opening offensiveNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:42:45Targeting forces to strengthen Japan's peace partyNotable Point
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:38:06Which used more preemptive strikes: Britain or Japan?Q&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'39:53Yamato and the cost of concentrating an industrial effortQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:36:06Japanese I-class submarines in their own periodQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:08:48Global logistics worked against Britain's 24.5-inch torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:32:48Sending Yorktown east might have concentrated Japanese escortsQ&A
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI26:55Torpedo failures reveal testing inertia across naviesNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:20:20Planned fleet numbers matter more than a one-on-one duelNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:14:55Reconstructing Yamato for the comparisonChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:27:08Supplying Midway and using its patrol radiusQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:49:30A Japanese-style balance for a risk fleetQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:03:07Japan's naval aircrew rotation failureQ&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:20:48Did Japanese designers believe Queen Elizabeth made 25 knots?Q&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII38:29The flag-identification claim after the Panay attackNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:05:58Scorpion, Dragonfly, and Grasshopper lost off SingaporeNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response32:07Could the Imperial Japanese Navy reach the Caribbean?Q&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:38:14Unlimited British warship production against Italy and JapanQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:37:38How Yamato, Musashi, and Nagato were namedNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:47:34The wars that might replace World War IIQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response1:06:37Wargaming only helps when leaders accept unwelcome resultsNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?8:24How interservice competition sustained naval aviationNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:03:34Joffre and continuous air operationsChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:17:10An early Joffre and twin-engine carrier aircraftNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine20:42Hirohito's approval left Yamamoto responsible for Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine35:07Scharnhorst offered a better model than prestige copyingQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine49:08Short-war assumptions undercut pre-1914 naval arms controlQ&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect44:16The Anglo-Japanese alliance trapped von SpeeChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:28:49Patey's multinational search began after CoronelNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:00:31Why G3 and N3 responses could not begin immediatelyQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:21:12A British alternative at the Washington Naval ConferenceQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:26:13Could the Anglo-Japanese Alliance survive after World War I?Q&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:26:17Japanese radar ideas outpaced industrial productionQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193926:15Outside the Washington treaty systemNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:55:48What Oberon-class submarines could do at Singapore in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:45:29Which navies gave crews the harshest accommodation?Q&A
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships8:20Hood, G3, and N3 as a global deterrent systemNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships28:53Why 16-inch prestige defeated the faster F3Chapter
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)31:14Melampus combines royal command training with naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response1:03:29Reserve crews and the pursuit of von SpeeNotable Point
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?10:28Hosho and Hermes prove that carrier roles matterChapter
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?44:37Akagi's multiple decks could not keep pace with aircraft growthChapter
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?49:02Ranger and Ryujo pushed light construction too farChapter
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?1:08:26Hiryu's port-side island created avoidable flight hazardsNotable Point
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 6531:15Why did Hōshō survive the Pacific War?Q&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:57:39Akagi and Kaga multiplied flying decks instead of capacityChapter
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 652:32:28Hiryū mirrored the island but not the machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War12:41If Pearl Harbor failed, the US battle fleet still faces a trapQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War29:15Royal Navy aircraft procurement favored sustained operationsQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War38:52Carrier design follows geography and expected battle tempoNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War59:02Japanese raiders need distant sea lanes to wage economic warQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:42:52Why dive-bombers could not simply target carrier liftsQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video24:05How revealing Yamato could have prolonged the battleship ageQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:17:37Yamato as both battle-line weapon and deterrentQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:25:07How the Royal Navy might fight YamatoQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:30:08Why Kurita's withdrawal at Samar deserves qualified criticismQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War19:04Could Yamato have changed Midway?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:03:59Why Japan could welcome two British G3sQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:11:38An independent Japanese air force and interservice conflictQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:08:11British intelligence misses Yamato and the Long LanceChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:09:32Confirmation bias and phantom Japanese battlecruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:10:32The industrial opportunity cost of YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:12:14Royal Navy submarines scouting inside Japanese watersChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:30:50War Memorandum Eastern as preparation strategyChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:33:33Protecting trade during the ninety-day fleet delayChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History56:00Yamato could not deter an enemy kept ignorant of itNotable Point
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video8:24A French battle fleet in the Indian OceanQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video21:28Reinforcing Malaya and deterring JapanQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video36:16Calibrating criticism of warship designsNotable Point
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video54:09Three British carriers waiting in the Indian OceanQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video58:42Rearming French capital ships and delaying JapanQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video1:05:58Evacuating French forces could split the global warQ&A
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers48:20Phoenix escapes Pearl Harbor and guards the route to AustraliaChapter
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:10:16St. Louis fights out of Pearl HarborChapter
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:21:15Radar contact sets the Battle of Kula Gulf in motionChapter
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:27:20Three Long Lances sink Helena at Kula GulfChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations14:39What treaty clause could have enabled escort carriers?Q&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations16:40Why carrier doctrine differed between naviesQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations21:21How carrier doctrine travels between theatersQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:46:50Taiyo and Japan's escort-carrier shortageNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:26:25Escort carriers meet battleships off SamarChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:29:20Why empty aircraft still mattered at SamarChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:38:28Correcting myths about Japanese fire controlNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:44:26What if the Taffy groups had prepared for ships?Q&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:49:29Why Japan's 25 mm AA gun underperformedQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:52:52When Japan could have switched to 40 mm AAQ&A
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France1:08:10French Indochina blocks Japan's historical buildupChapter
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France1:12:06A stronger Indian Ocean fleet reshapes Japan's target choiceNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?1:38:26An Allied fleet reaches the Indian Ocean earlyChapter
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?1:45:54Could submarines in Indochina threaten Japan?Q&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:18:22An earlier European victory reshapes the Far EastChapter
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:28:01Did Britain underestimate Japan?Q&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:36:36Why the United States still joins a Far Eastern warChapter
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:45:14Churchill did not rule out war with JapanNotable Point
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace29:34Kuznetsov's navy plans Project 68 against JapanChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:36Yamato and the industrial cost of prestige battleshipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 37:57Testing Izumo's all-forward battleship layoutQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 340:18A B-17 kamikaze strike during MidwayQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 341:29Odd and even numbers in IJN submarine typesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 350:59British submarines and Japan's inadequate escort fleetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:46:00Why the IJN built dedicated training shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 32:16:35The navies and Commonwealth fleet that operated battlecruisersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 33:04:42Why a 500-ship IJN escort program was unrealisticQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4239:22How fighters could have disrupted the attack on Force ZQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:50:12How Dutch battlecruisers could complicate Japanese planningQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 216:52A practical Japanese alternative to YamatoQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 230:34Building and employing the I-400 submarinesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 245:14Why Japanese submarines lacked an Atlantic-style trade targetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:12:45A carrier designed for medium bombers before World War IIQ&A
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p75:18Tsukushi foreshadows Esmeralda's Chile-to-Japan transferNotable Point
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p715:24Japanese rearmament turns Esmeralda into IzumiNotable Point
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p719:22The Esmeralda Affair and the transfer through EcuadorChapter
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p722:09Izumi shifts from fleet exercises to wartime scoutingChapter
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p725:28Izumi survives Tsushima and escorts the Sakhalin invasionChapter
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers1:08:07The northern cruiser force is surprised off Savo IslandChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:44:13A second Japanese Indian Ocean raid instead of MidwayQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:45:27Could Japan seize the East Indies without Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:49:50A Pacific war without a European warQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:54:53Japan's best 1937 series-production choiceQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:57:26The worst Axis errors belonged to governments, not uniquely foolish naviesQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:07:36What Dutch and Swedish planners could teach larger Axis naviesQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments6:26How a carrier might have changed Force ZQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments28:45Decisive battle was only one part of Japanese planningQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments32:17Japan's elite pilot standards shrank its replacement poolQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments51:55Why America was not yet outbuilding Japan in 1940-41Q&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments52:41Why experimental guided weapons were not fleet-readyQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments1:00:15Why Japan needed an earlier mass escort programQ&A
- Town Class (1911): Chathams37:09The Battle of Cocos shapes Japanese views of AustraliaNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19420:52Japan could not match American ships or secure its fuelChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19422:58Preserve veteran Japanese aircrew for a longer warChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19423:42Abandon the short-war assumption behind Kantai KessenChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194215:19America was both a sleeping giant and a hollow treeNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19411:38Japan's countdown to an expected losing warChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19414:16Turn the Yamato class into public deterrenceNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19415:41A Japanese strategy of attrition and negotiated peaceChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19418:19Expand Kido Butai with rapid carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19418:51Rotate veteran Japanese pilots into trainingChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments37:18The Imperial Japanese Navy's active war in ChinaNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times24:47Why an export Nelson would alarm the United StatesQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times40:05A treaty-breaking American battleship restarts the arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:01:58Synthetic fuel as Japan's minimum naval operating baseNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:20:52Japan led the Axis in naval construction capacityQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:22:19Six Japanese carriers at the Coral SeaQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:30:23A slow Japanese Nelson becomes a home-islands battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:52:06Faster Standard Type battleships raise the fleet-speed benchmarkQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:40:28USS Wichita would strengthen and expose the Asiatic FleetQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19402:26Yamato construction and Japan's hidden industrial burdenChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19404:50A 1940 Japanese carrier and escort construction surgeChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19407:57Synthetic fuel, railways, and submarines for JapanChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193925:10Dutch technology without enough construction capacityChapter
- Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?10:26Why total cruiser tonnage constrained strategyNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19397:55Turning the Kagero design into an ASW escortNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19398:42Japan's long-war infrastructure problemChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193911:19The missing logistics behind the Southern Resource AreaChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193914:24Using the Yamato class as strategic disclosureChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193920:28The dockyard bottleneck behind Japanese capital shipsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193930:46Simplifying Graf Zeppelin with Japanese experienceChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19391:15Racial prejudice as a barrier to learning from Japanese carriersNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193941:44Using fortified islands to strain Japan's battle fleetNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre17:19Wooden guns mask converted Japanese battleshipsChapter
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack49:50Would Japan build more or smaller carriers?Q&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:34:36Kriegsmarine and Japanese naval morale in 1945Q&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)36:00France's Far East fleet as an allied force enablerChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)47:07Japan exposed France's Asian imperial flankChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)1:20:20Why France designed an allied navy for the Atlantic and Far EastChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)1:22:41How a French fleet would reach a coalition war against JapanChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)1:39:00Italian and Japanese pressure on French force planningChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)1:47:35How Japan's armed services could bring down a cabinetChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:54:11How would Algérie fare against Mogami?Q&A
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)58:37Houston and Perth's outnumbered night fight at Sunda StraitChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions57:43Why enemy technology should not be dismissedNotable Point
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)5:41What might Japan have planned after Yamato?Q&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?9:16Why Ibuki was not a battlecruiserQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 254:58If the Shokaku class had remained capital shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:51:09Why light carriers remain valuableQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:54:11Why Japan paired large cruisers with Yamato constructionQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels47:55Sending I-400 submarines to France in 1944Q&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)16:39Japanese security and the proposed seven-to-ten ratioQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)45:37Could removing Fuso's midships turrets produce 27 knots?Q&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:03:18Why the Pacific fortification clause disadvantaged JapanChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)30:35A 10:10:7:4:4 ratio intended to reassure JapanChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)1:13:17Security through visible, limited constructionChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)11:24Equal submarine tonnage meets unequal geographyNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)20:28One-, two-, and three-ocean navies under one limitNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)12:18Japan's missed escort opportunityNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)12:00The London Treaty's destroyer rulesChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)18:13Japanese destroyers and treaty incentivesNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)22:23The Washington cruiser loophole and industrial capacityNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)26:28Historical ceilings produced small destroyer fleetsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)29:34A 10:10:7:4:4 destroyer settlementChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)40:29Soviet participation changes Japan's strategic balanceNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)42:11Make the flotilla the treaty unitChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)19:26The London Treaty's unequal cruiser allowancesChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)25:12How prescriptive limits encouraged creative accountingChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)45:15Why Japan sought a seven-to-ten naval ratioChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)50:44A simpler 10:10:7:4:4 cruiser settlementChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)57:30Balanced bargaining and visible Japanese constructionChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)1:02:51Steady cruiser construction and national force coverageChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)28:37A 10:10:7:4:4 treaty ratioChapter
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)56:39Using treaty membership to support Weimar and JapanChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)15:52Japan's security case for a 7:10 fleet ratioChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)24:29Why undersized capital ships would become death trapsNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)32:32How one capital-ship category encouraged fast battleshipsNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)42:02Regional carrier ratios depend on fleet concentrationNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)46:17Pacific fortification limits and Japanese insecurityChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)59:34How a three-theatre Royal Navy constrains rival concentrationNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)0:19Why maximal treaty demands risked alienating JapanChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)8:21The 5:5:3 ratio stopped below capital shipsChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)26:15Why allowing Japanese fortification could aid containmentNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)27:34How tactical bargaining success can undermine strategyNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)35:39Geography made the Pacific freeze unequalNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)42:06Natori's dispersed seven-gun layoutNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)47:58Japanese light cruisers emphasized torpedo attackNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...19:31Why equal submarine limits would be hard to policeQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)56:22Japanese resistance to Soviet landings in the Kuril IslandsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:01:08Why Japanese logistics still constrain an advance on AustraliaQ&A
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)12:50Carrier ratios and Japan’s strategic positionNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)54:53Hōshō and Japan's early carrier advantageNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)1:01:39Lexington conversions and Japan's large-carrier optionNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)29:02ABDA placed Exeter against full-sized Japanese cruisersChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion0:48Treaty limits and the grey areaChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion13:47Prestige ships and industrial opportunity costNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:51:30Why the oil embargo did not make Japan back downQ&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:02:22Did Americans really think Japan was weak?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:40:30How treaty superiority encouraged complacencyNotable Point
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)19:57Japanese admirals understood the odds against themNotable Point
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)28:04How might Japan ambush Allied forces north of the Philippines?Q&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)30:54Could Japan fight only to force a negotiated peace?Q&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:26:09What does a fleet designed to preserve peace look like?Q&A
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)0:09Why a 1939 war would not repeat 1941Chapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)5:19Yonai, Nagano, and the struggle over Japanese strategyChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)33:16Imperial Defence Policy divides naval and army rolesNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)34:01Why Singapore is not Japan's easy opening targetNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)41:15Nagano's fatalist case for fighting a stronger powerNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)42:42The Tsingtao crisis at gunpointChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:02:01The Philippines force Japan's strategic choiceChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:05:00What Japan's carrier force actually contained in February 1939Notable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:07:03Commerce raiding exposes Japan's escort shortfallNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:12:57Yonai's blunt assessment of an Anglo-American warNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?0:30Why a 1939 war would not follow the 1941 scriptChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?19:13Did Japan have an admiral like Beresford?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?21:45Fushimi, Yonai, and the factions behind Japanese doctrineChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?26:28Did Japan have a naval reformer like Fisher?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?26:43Were IJN leaders trained in Japan or overseas?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?33:16Could Japan afford the 10:10:7 treaty ratio?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?37:02Mitsumasa Yonai's case for infrastructure over prestige shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?42:03Yoshida made synthetic fuel a test of the Tripartite PactNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?53:45Yonai-era reform reshapes Japanese naval aviationNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:24:22Why not attack British and American trade first?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:26:02Two navies prepared for night fightingNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:45:36A no-win war and the paradox of Japanese riskNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:50:36Tsingtao: a confrontation at point-blank rangeChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:59:10Tsingtao's command breakdown made diplomacy dangerousNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:26:50Why the Philippines becomes Japan's immediate dilemmaNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:31:39The Kido Butai does not yet existChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:45:44Could Japan expand submarine construction in wartime?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:51:49Japan's conventional air power remains dangerousNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:55:20Why Japan backed down before 1941Notable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:20:52Would Japan accept an honourable peace?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:29:59Fast Allied raiders force Japan to spend fuelNotable Point
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound9:17Kantai Kessen and the danger of planning for a foolish enemyNotable Point
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound11:08Operation Tan's small-strike problemChapter
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound14:45C6N reconnaissance undone by serviceabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:16:10The decisive-battle problem in Japan's Pacific strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:53:51Armoured carriers against Japanese air attackQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:54:18A 1939 Anglo-Japanese war reshapes fleets and alliancesNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)3:38Operation Tan No. 2 and decisive-battle thinkingChapter
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)27:36Factionalism distorts Japanese naval commandNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)34:38Why Japan did not disperse warship constructionQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)35:51Japanese radar equipment delayed the supporting submarinesQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:08:25Disputed trials of Japanese twin-engine carrier aircraftQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:31:13Why Japan kept targeting carriers instead of logisticsQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:29:04Why Operation Tan No. 2 failedChapter
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion40:30National doctrine changes the value of all-forward gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:41:33Could revealing Yamato have delayed the Pacific War?Q&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:53:13How Japan could hunt Hood as a commerce raiderQ&A
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)3:35Why fewer British hulls might unlock treaty consentNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books29:54The dreadnought race was wider than Britain and GermanyNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books34:54An unconstrained capital-ship technology raceNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:24:25Why Japan could not replace experienced naval aviatorsQ&A
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)21:02Armstrong's global export shipbuildingNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions38:36Why Japan lacked an ideal destroyer gunQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:58:13A 1930s Chinese flotilla defence against JapanQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:37:58Japan's fleet lacked enough mobile repair capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:47:02Japanese and British contingency plans against the Panama CanalQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:41:59Nelson-class design and the Royal Navy's distributed fleet doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:54:35How naval treaties might have increased the risk of warQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)50:48How did the Sendai-to-Agano gap affect Japanese light forces?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)58:09Can cruiser combat capability be compared fairly?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:23:21Cruiser aircraft for sea controlChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:04:12What made the Brooklyn role distinctive?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:15:44Did six-inch gun performance vary by navy?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:27:20Did Axis cruisers fit their intended roles?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:31:20Why did the Alaska class take its final form?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:14:10A Pacific war beginning in 1938Q&A
- County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued12:32County cruisers in Far Eastern deterrenceChapter
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)31:50Why arms-control bargains needed political winsNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:27:35Why Japan persisted with shipboard anti-aircraft rocketsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:16:29A reference book for Imperial Japanese Navy officersQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:31:41Recognizing national stereotypes in naval historyQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)32:23Triple turrets and the prewar naval raceNotable Point
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises2:30:40When the Kongō class stopped being battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)9:48A battlecruiser category reshapes carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)22:50Japanese treaty parity could become a fiscal trapQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:20:50G3 and N3 construction would upset the Pacific balanceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:26:10Japanese inter-service cooperation as production powerQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...51:13How revealing Yamato in 1941 could have changed Allied planningQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:28:53How Admiral Cunningham might have pressed the Pearl Harbor attackQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:32:41How a Pearl Harbor third wave could have mined the channelQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:04:57Why attacking the US fleet at sea might have served Japan betterQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:50:07Why Tribal-class destroyers could be mistaken for cruisers off SamarQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...3:07:34Royal Navy and Japanese night-fighting doctrines at GuadalcanalQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)8:00A source guide to Imperial Japanese naval strategyNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)17:46Kantai Kessen begins with attritionChapter
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)23:13A decisive battle was not one fixed planNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)25:32Japan could not outbuild either maritime rivalNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)36:45Sanctions constrained Japanese munitions productionQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)40:00Midway had value beyond the Doolittle RaidQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)52:31An Indian Ocean fleet would be harder to surpriseQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:11:32Guadalcanal losses reveal the replacement imbalanceQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:18:51A reverse Pearl Harbor would hit Japan harderQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:34:12Peacetime doctrine shaped an awkward fleetQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:47:20Converted tankers limited Japanese strike-group scaleQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:11:06Repair capacity is broader than repair shipsQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:29:14Japanese planning could buy time, not victoryQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:32:11Force Z nearly reached vulnerable transportsQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:39:01Industrial organization shaped fleet outputNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:17:37Japan expected Britain to be distractedQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:25:11Yamato secrecy undercut deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov43:50Could Japan have hidden Kaga from treaty limits?Q&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov1:10:04How should Roosevelt's racial language be read?Q&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov3:22:41Japanese doctrine beyond Kantai KessenNotable Point
- Strategy & Stragists: An Introduction to Bruships 634:00Civilian and military strategy must connectChapter
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:30:12How Allied intelligence misread YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat2:35:17Why Japanese naval armour production remains obscureNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions19:09Shinano's real constraint: trained aircrewQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions27:21Self-sealing tanks would save pilots but require industryQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions27:39Codebreaking did not erase the larger Pacific War imbalanceQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions28:10Redirecting Japanese submarines toward fleet tankersQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:16:53Shinano as a repair ship still depends on the wider forceQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary24:02Japanese investigation at TarantoQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:20:34Taranto as a proof of concept, not a Pearl Harbor blueprintQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:38:00How much carrier knowledge Britain and Japan sharedQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:08:23Where Japan's B-65 super cruisers might fitQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:12:59Why removing aircraft still leaves the 1941 U.S. Pacific Fleet behindQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…43:52A modernised Commonwealth battlecruiser at Java SeaQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:13:55How earlier 18-inch battleships might alter YamatoQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:49:13Japanese planning for a Royal Navy tied down in EuropeNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:51:19Yamato and the infrastructure choice behind capital shipsNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:12:29What a later Washington Naval Treaty might have changedQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:38:26How HMS Tiger inspired the Kongo classQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?55:40Nakajima A2N and Japan's naval-aviation cultureChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:07:02Why inter-war air arms were not simply copying one anotherNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:17:52Royal Navy planning had to cover Japan, Italy, Germany, and the Soviet UnionQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:28:22Aichi D1A and Japan's dive-bomber investmentNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:48:25Mercantilism, industrial capacity, and Japan's convoy weaknessNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:49:58The A5M prototype's transitional gull wingNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:34:35Every major navy entered the war with a different readiness gapQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:35:41The B5M and Japan's search for a second production lineNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:57:31China confirmed Japanese air doctrine without testing it against a peerQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:06:08The Zero's performance came with an industrial limitChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:21:52How single-seat Zero fighters navigated long-range strikesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/48:08Yonai and Fushimi Hiroyasu as interwar naval mindsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/49:10Yonai's reputation and prewar policy recordChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/410:21Yonai from European neutrality to Japan's surrenderChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/412:02Yonai's warning against a wider warNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/413:12Yonai as a naval leader willing to resist pressureChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/426:31Shimada, political compliance, and the Tokyo trialQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/429:07Oikawa's view of Japan's strategic predicamentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/437:35Toyoda, Potsdam, and the emperor questionQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/440:51Ichi-Go and the cost of Japanese strategic disunityQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/428:18Why the Regia Marina was Britain's strategically awkward opponentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/432:30Nagano and Japan's recognized but unaddressed limitsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/434:03Why a limited China settlement was difficult to recognizeQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/435:15Why treaty limits looked like second-tier status to JapanNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/441:15Would Sakhalin oil have changed Japan's choice for war?Q&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.2:59:25Why American submarines strangled Japan more effectivelyQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)9:11Why Ibuki was called a battle cruiserQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)11:22One-, two-, and five-ocean fleet allowancesNotable Point
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)33:18Myoko-class cruisers in prewar Far East confrontationsNotable Point
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)34:20Myoko and treaty limits as fleet policyChapter
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)36:37Naval treaties and tolerated evasionNotable Point
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)57:19Japan's infrastructure limit and the fast scout-carrier alternativeChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?5:39The thin English-language record of Japan's wartime leadersNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?26:42Kessen doctrine as an answer to industrial limitsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?43:55Why commerce raiding was a poor cruiser alternativeQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?50:30Why Japan refitted captured Russian warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?50:52Even a decisive-battle victory could leave Japan strategically trappedQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:25:12Why Japanese planners still expected a fleet battleQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:50:21The industrial problem behind Japanese cruiser compromisesChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:55:26A proposed alternative: fast carriers for the scouting roleNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?3:07:28How treaty ratios linked British and Japanese cruiser numbersQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli3:25Burzagli as an observer at Port ArthurChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli28:37Comparing Italian, Japanese, and German fleet balanceChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai0:40Hirohito's trust in an anti-war admiralChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai3:50Technical judgement across a naval careerNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai6:41Warning against war while China remained a burdenChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai8:20A premiership opposed to the Tripartite PactChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai10:15The navy backs Yonai's wartime recallNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai15:18Why Yonai doubted war with Britain and AmericaNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai16:22Calling the February 26 uprising an insurrectionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai19:29From naval dissolution to postwar reconstructionChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai20:31A peace-seeking admiral and a contested legacyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda2:46Toyoda's war-crimes case and acquittalChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda4:08A long naval career and opposition to warChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda7:09Why Yonai brought Toyoda into the naval staffNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda9:08Diplomacy shaped by incompatible communicationChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa2:28Oikawa's early naval careerChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa5:15From naval education to fleet and aviation commandsChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa6:19Oikawa's efforts to avert war as Navy MinisterNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa7:47Why Toyoda replaced Oikawa in May 1945Notable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa8:59The case for appointing Oikawa earlierNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa11:23A capable choice from a depleted leadership poolNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa12:43Richard Fuller and the limits of Oikawa's English-language biographyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada0:02Why Shimada receives a harsh assessmentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada2:46Shimada's reputation inside the Imperial Japanese NavyChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada4:11Combining political and naval-staff authorityNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada6:06A conventional career without a distinctive legacyChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada8:16Intrigue, command, and Japan's naval reversesChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada9:21Tojo, Shimada, and failed wartime coordinationNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada11:05Concentrated command and Shimada's personal responsibilityNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?41:12How Japan's naval chief could bring down a governmentQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano0:18Nagano's career and wartime fall from favourChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano5:52How the naval staff could overpower cabinet ministersChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano7:50Why Japan's northern expansion strategy collapsedChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano9:56Nagano's support for southern expansionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano16:06The aircrew training bottleneckNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano16:42Nagano's performance under cultural constraintsChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano18:30Japan's material limits and staff coordinationChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu0:18Imperial status and naval influenceChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu3:13An unusually international naval educationChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu8:48Chief of the Naval General StaffNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu11:12The Fleet Faction and treaty withdrawalChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu13:32Appointments, merit, and personal loyaltyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu14:36Treaty withdrawal as an open warningChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu16:40A missed chance to build naval capacityNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu19:16Tankers, escort carriers, and synthetic fuelNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu26:36Extra carriers at Coral Sea and MidwayNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:27:54Why Japanese submarines found few commerce targetsQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties21:23Concentrated fleet doctrine versus distributed warNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties24:41How smaller navies magnify a narrow doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:11:12A Second World War tank boat for island campaignsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:25:02Political disasters in naval administrationQ&A
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean32:20The Giuseppe Garibaldi class on the export marketChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response33:21Japan's Singapore campaign without French IndochinaNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response47:23Japan combined night torpedoes with massed daytime air powerNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response54:20Why Anglo-Japanese tension competed with Atlantic planningNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response30:41The submarine war extended beyond Germany and AmericaNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:56:52A landing raid during the attack on Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:32:01Why the Royal Navy needed to prepare for three different opponentsNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:32:35What an Anglo-Japanese war in 1939 might have changedNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:36:35HMS Birmingham faces down Japan at TsingtaoQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:59:16British and Japanese reasons for night fightingNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol4:01Germany, Japan, and two different escort problemsNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/733:33Axis naval infrastructure sets different limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions53:36Tillman battleships made less sense for an industrial giantQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:20:07Naval treaty compliance was a spectrumQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:45:31A Nagato postcard could stand in for YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:14:13Somerville's missed opportunity during Operation CQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:18:01An armored British carrier could defeat a Japanese carrier with gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)34:22Kitakami and the limits of torpedo cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:33:54Formal French command did not guarantee coalition obedienceNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword40:52Why Nagato would have made a valuable Japanese museum shipQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191410:03Why 1914 was a global naval raceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191412:01Gun and turret advances came from beyond GermanyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191312:29Why the 1913 naval race was globalChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 123:13Identifying Operation Irregular's Japanese landing shipNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:34:04The Anglo-Japanese alliance linked security and naval technologyNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:45:31No major navy entered the Second World War fully readyQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers27:49Cruiser presence pressured Japan before 1941Chapter
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:32:37Why Japan could not simply bypass Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:47:58How navies can enable or obstruct a coupQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation3:26:16Kido Butai's elite strength lacked replacement depthQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation3:32:37Source-checking the converted-shell story at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation3:49:59The tension wire behind shallow-water torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation3:57:38Royal Navy multi-carrier doctrine before the Second World WarQ&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:28:14A cruiser fleet and a Prussian-style armyChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:07:39Pungdo, Kowshing, and the lost brigadeChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:27:24The Yalu convoy and fleet battleChapter
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:53:12Could Ersatz Monarch fight a Kongō?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland21:17HMCS Uganda with the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers21:41How many admirals were targeted in the February 26 coup?Q&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments1:22How a British victory over Russia might have shaped Japanese doctrineQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments2:19Could Yamato have fought the Pearl Harbor battle line?Q&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments10:15What Japan knew about the Russian squadronQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments11:12How readiness could have changed TsushimaQ&A
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 37:49Anti-piracy raids double as amphibious demonstrationsNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 39:16Shanghai violence and Japan's May 15 coup attemptChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 311:38The May 15 Incident removes a civilian check on militarismNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 320:49Charles Little links trade, submarines, and naval intelligenceChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 323:24Percy Noble brings equipment and fleet-command experience to ChinaNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History2:43:46Japan's C1 attack submarines and their midget-submarine fittingsChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History2:45:42C1 operations from Pearl Harbor to supply missions and lossesNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response9:24G3 conversions and a larger treaty carrier normNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response15:35Japan's carrier options after the Amagi lossQ&A
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32224:28Why Germany did not initially panic the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered35:58Japan's war timing and the inevitability of US interventionQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 35:40Ryujo and the cost of minimizing carrier displacementNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 311:29Soryu outgrows Japanese treaty arithmeticChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 323:30Hiryu diverges from her near-sister SoryuNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 324:16The 1930s solidify three national carrier pathsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers33:20Graf Zeppelin's uncertain role and institutional conflictChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 310:20Hosho and Eagle define different carrier scalesChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 324:09Courageous and Kaga show flight-deck layout choicesChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties34:39Ryūjō exploits the small-carrier treaty loopholeNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...4:04:39Axis naval flak and Japan's missing mid-range weaponQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s1:25:04How carrier air-group organization differed among naviesQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s1:29:10Why squadrons benefited from long-term carrier pairingsQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:43:00Courageous and Kaga expose the cost of bad exhaust routingChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:52:46Glorious and Ryujo show the scale of interwar carrier experimentsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:01:00Ark Royal and Hiryu as fast strike carriersChapter
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy14:52Carrier limits depended on Japanese acceptanceNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context22:36Britain watched a worldwide wave of naval expansionChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192049:45Shirakaze and the Minekaze destroyer balanceChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192059:37The Pacific range problem for Japanese destroyersQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:48:42Ro-13 and Japan's Kaichu submarine designChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:06:17Nagato: powerful, prestigious, and underusedChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:12:42Could coal ease Japan's wartime fuel shortage?Q&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:24:25Japan's army-navy rivalry as a strategic handicapNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:07:20Japanese officers could study Counties and Towns on stationQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:12:24Naval treaty ratios carried political and cultural costsNotable Point
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?3:00Pearl Harbor as a high-risk Japanese gambleChapter
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?25:17The oil embargo and failure to anticipate JapanChapter
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?35:05How costly was the raid to Japanese aircraft?Q&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?35:58Japanese code reading and consular intelligenceQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:25:37Japan's plan had no comfortable answer to an active defenseQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?2:08:01The long chain of Japanese luckNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:38:27Why Japan could not repeat Russia's 1905 voyage against BritainQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"11:48Pilot rotation preserved air-defence expertiseNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"58:06Similar aircraft shapes do not prove copyingNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond30:26Taranto becomes a lesson for Pacific naviesChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond33:38Torpedo debris reveals only part of the shallow-water methodNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond36:08Japan follows up while John Opie's warning stallsNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond42:51Why Taranto and Pearl Harbor resist simple comparisonChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond52:10A small carrier force produces a strategic resultChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 5 of 5: What ifs, Ships & Patreon Votes14:39Could warning have turned Pearl Harbor into an ambush?Notable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark25:03Why Pearl Harbor was not attacked at nightQ&A
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark1:41:22What Japanese investigators learned - and missedNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation13:33Why 1939 was too early for Pearl Harbor's air strikeQ&A
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/21:08:00Sea Slug, Type 3 shells, and unrotated projectilesNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:10:31Which heavy cruiser design would Japan standardise on?Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:59:13Why Japan pressed ahead at MidwayQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers42:27Perth's final action in Sunda StraitChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers49:57Why ABDA kept fighting after Singapore fellQ&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2210:14Article 20's national replacement exceptionsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2213:43Japan's treaty politics and controlled naval spendingNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2215:43Article 21 and a naval build-up outside the treatyChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2218:18The treaty held before late erosionNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2239:42Why aircraft carriers stayed outside the debateChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2242:04Diverging paths in carrier aviationNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:41:31Ise and Hyuga gained flight decks but not air groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:11:54Large navies preserved competing wartime ideasNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:31:54A mass attack still has to coordinate its arrivalNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:00:08Mogami's aircraft cruiser conversion as a scoutQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:11:05Keeping aerial torpedoes shallow at TarantoQ&A
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)13:30Swift exports spread Blackburn's torpedo-aircraft experienceNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)45:30A Blackburn design enters Japanese carrier aviationNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol2:22How the Anglo-Japanese Alliance workedChapter
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol14:50Tsushima's naval prestige and a political vetoChapter
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol29:12Japanese and Australian forces hem in von SpeeNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol1:06:31Japan's wider contribution to the warNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol1:07:43The combined siege of TsingtaoChapter
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol1:18:54Suwo from Port Arthur to TsingtaoNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol1:24:11Intelligence makes the colonial campaign quickNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:58:50A balanced introduction to the Imperial Japanese NavyChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:26The Japanese Navy's limited Atlantic reachQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:02Why radar alone could not fix Japanese carrier defenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:38:20Would Japan benefit if the Pacific Fleet were elsewhere?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:44:49Did Japan have a practical plan to invade Australia?Q&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...10:56The Tsingtao incident and SS Vincent de PaulChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...19:07The counterfactual torpedo strike that starts warChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...31:59HMS Folkestone: a small sloop on the China StationNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...47:19What bridge damage could do to a Japanese cruiserQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:08:04Japanese command culture was not mechanically rigidQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:17:20Why Kaga might not receive warning in timeQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:20:02Was Yamamoto sent to sea for protection?Q&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:33:13Industrial limits matter more than treaty limitsQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:51:53Japan lacks its 1941 staging system in early 1939Notable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:53:02The 1939 Allied capital-ship balanceNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:17:46Eight British capital ships for the Pacific fleetNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:26:37Japan's 1941 strength cannot be projected into 1939Notable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:34:32How the limited war could reach a fleet battleChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:43:47China Station knowledge of Japanese decisive-battle doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:50:56Countering Japanese night torpedo doctrineQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:13:00Securing government after a Japanese naval defeatQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:13:50The carrier inventory that actually existed in early 1939Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 415:37Defeat Japan, enforce a blockade, then redeployChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 427:59Japan seeks an early decisive battleNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...3:03An Axis turn against JapanChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 44:33The escalation from Tsingtao to a wider warNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 427:16Blockade after the decisive fleet actionNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 428:07Why Japan might still accept a disastrous battleNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 425:31Fragmented Japanese command complicates the responseNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 416:49Trade interdependence and prewar Japanese airpowerNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 428:12Cruisers, a light cruiser, and a sloopNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 447:21The historical escape under trained gunsChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 451:03The escort plan and Japan's army-navy divideChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 457:35A daylight pursuit and limited torpedo attackChapter
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean34:20Japan as the Royal Navy's fundable peer benchmarkNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4340:21Why British trade geography favored containing Japan in the PacificQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4352:42Why Japan's Type 96 anti-aircraft gun underperformedQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:07:23Why Japan did not license the Bofors remains uncertainQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:08:20Singapore's captured radar specialists became a Japanese intelligence targetQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:02:25Operation C begins with Japan's 1942 eastern offensiveChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:05:17Operation C's central purpose: cover Japanese troop movementsChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:11:30Japanese cruisers targeted the traffic India depended onChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:21:24I-30 and the potential value of Axis technology transferQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:31:08Could submarines and mines have restricted Japan before Operation C?Q&A
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy1:00:45A 1939 Tsingtao incident counterfactualNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)19:44H8K Emily's long-range gambleNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)22:21Rufe: the Zero's costly floatplane conversionNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)13:17The Rufe: forward basing at the cost of fighter performanceNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)14:36Kawanishi H8K Emily and Japan's extreme range requirementChapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)18:58Why the Rufe struggled in air combatNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:20:18Why multi-bearing torpedo salvos are harder to evadeNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?2:14:57Nagato compared with Renown and RepulseQ&A
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville29:32Eastern Fleet command after Operation CNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 323:27Japanese Midway games suppressed an unwelcome resultChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 326:35Midway planning neglected how to sustain the islandNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 327:41A Hawaii counterfactual asks how Japan could shape the US advanceNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A11:28Japanese naval aviation and Pacific War reading guideChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A13:09Two routes into the Zero and prewar Japanese aircraft designNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A19:17The Zero's design bargain and the Thach WeaveNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A26:18Japanese and British naval aces in paired readingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A30:57Operational maps for Coral Sea and Midway, plus an IJN overviewNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A46:53Why Japanese damage control produced uneven resultsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:25Why Japan could not solve its wartime production gapQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A51:37The ship-design cost of a Japanese 20-inch gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A55:37The promise and limits of Japan's submarine armQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:01:44Japan's strategic dependence on an Anglo-American partnerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:10:04China, commercial interests, and American Pacific powerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:25Why the Tone class put every main gun forwardQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:20:17A Japanese strategy of seizing Hawaii and blocking PanamaQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:27:40At-sea replenishment before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:29:37Why Allied surface raiders found little Japanese trade to interdictQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:31:21The stability cost of Japanese pagoda mastsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:33:21Why Japan kept its inadequate 25 mm antiaircraft gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:50:13Submarine quality control and command culture in the IJNQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:10:45Japan's Special Naval Landing ForcesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:24:43Long-range Japanese battleships without long-range sensingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:23Why Japan failed to build an effective convoy systemQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:52:05Why American formations adapted better in Pacific battlesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:54:57Why the recorded loss of I-52 feels hauntingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:00:55Britain or America alone against JapanQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:27Why Japanese surface raiders offered little value by 1944Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:07:02Dutch battlecruisers as part of an economic-war fleetNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:13:43Using Yamato-class resources for destroyers and convoy escortsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:14:27At Empress Augusta Bay, tactics mattered more than gun caliberQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:17:50Japan needed survivable carriers, not an American production raceNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:23:11Japan's limited use of motor torpedo and gun boatsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:23:35Why Tribal-class firepower worked better than oversized Axis destroyersQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy7:58How the Kongo class became fast battleshipsQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy37:54The strategic cost of Kongo's oil-fired speedNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:34:30Kongo versus Kaga as a carrier conversionQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:39:04Japan's expectation of battle followed by negotiationNotable Point
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers34:04How the Kongō class became fast battleshipsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A31:53The strategic cost of not invading HawaiiNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A35:00How Japan's service ministers could bring down governmentsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A50:25Comparing wartime underway replenishmentQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A27:14The Admiralty's logic for the Anglo-Japanese AllianceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:04:44Japanese warships must be judged against Japanese doctrineQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192924:19Carrier deck capacity turned fleet aviation into a timing problemChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192936:19Exercise MZ tested air attack in a balanced fleet problemChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie17:51The Royal Navy's three-phase Far East planChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie52:18Could Operation C have changed the postwar balance?Notable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:06:12Did other navies independently reach the armoured carrier?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A44:39Town-class commerce raiders should avoid Takao-class cruisersQ&A
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192112:26Port Arthur demonstrated Japan's value as an allyChapter
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192115:46Training and crossing the T at TsushimaChapter
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192132:18Why the Anglo-Japanese Alliance unraveled in 1921Chapter
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192132:41The Sempill Mission transferred knowledge and assessed JapanChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered22:13Why interwar naval intelligence sometimes declined to collect materialNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered58:59British shipyards built more than Japan's famous battleshipsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered59:21Why an Anglo-Japanese coalition alarmed US plannersQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)4:27Why interwar amphibious plans lacked landing shipsChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 113:28Was Gallipoli Japan's main amphibious lesson?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?19:36HMS Folkestone backs Birmingham at TsingtaoNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?50:50Why other navies filled the sloop niche differentlyNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video4:24A British flag becomes the whole case at TsingtaoChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video10:27Birmingham's gunpoint standoff risks a wider warNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video27:38HMS Liverpool stops Japan's prestige linerChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video34:17A cruiser success reveals Far Eastern weaknessNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video48:51Deterring Japan with the threat of blockadeChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video53:58A deterrent demonstration near JapanChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:04:23Japan's loss of face and strategic lessonChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:14:51Why several cruisers could matter more than two capital shipsNotable Point
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:16:33The bluff that worked and backfiredChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video48:26Japan and the United States watch Graf Spee's campaignNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)16:46Far East offensive cruising in Operation IrregularChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)33:20Tribals hunted Japanese movement ahead of a possible Singapore returnChapter