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- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:48Building a battleship from stockpiled componentsQ&A
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?37:37Logistics begins with industry and infrastructureChapter
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?39:19Machine tools must come before new factoriesChapter
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?44:24Industrial resilience depends on secure sea lanesChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one37:23Shipbuilding capacity needed preparation before wartime demandNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:24:48Continuous orders preserve a base for industrial expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live48:16American steel output racing shipyard expansionQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live50:42Portland steel expansion and its environmental costsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live59:28Japan's limits on expanding steel productionNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:48Delaying Midway gives the Essex program time to matureQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:59:57Risks of military ownership in industrial enterprisesQ&A
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?19:37Japan's rapid wartime destroyer constructionChapter
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:14A Lucrehulk could give Skynet an interstellar industrial baseQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:19Why the Mosquito drew on furniture and piano makersQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:39Why outside metalwork cannot fill a shipyard's order bookQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:09Why a modern Liberty ship mobilization would be difficultQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:36Converting fishing trawlers for a modern warQ&A
- Bruships9:36Henry Kaiser, Liberty ships, and workforce benefitsNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:22:33Production-security plans help sustain unique French calibersQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:22Sizing missile stockpiles for a sustained campaignQ&A
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII11:24Percy Nelles confronted industrial readinessChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII15:16Shipyard investment offered Depression-era employmentNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates13:45How continuous frigate orders sustain the supply chainNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)27:10The Sten traded refinement for wartime productionChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)34:27Keeping simple weapons in reserve productionNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)43:16Simms linked military orders to a larger civilian car marketNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:05:01Emergency weapon production also needs ammunitionNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:07:02Industrial abundance delayed America's bare-bones gunNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:32How American shipbuilding could recover from a lost 1941 fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon23:15Why a restored Kidō Butai still loses the production warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:37:01Why American entry in 1915 would not instantly end World War IQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:16:41Essex as a first-rate carrier designed for mass productionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:26:09Why SG radar reached US cruisers unevenly in 1942Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:26:50Timberborn production chains illustrate radar-mobilization delaysNotable Point
- 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 Trust1:50:41The British Empire's wider industrial contributionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:18:00Disagreement over munitions shortages and reserve production capacityNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:32:40Why winning Guadalcanal would not solve Japan's problemQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:06:41Can modern civilian shipyards switch to warship production?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:33:33Sixteen battlecruisers and the infrastructure to build battleshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:42:39Canada's wartime naval industry and its prewar starting pointQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:45:52Why prewar preparation shaped destroyer outputNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II3:30:42The impossible logistics behind Operation Sea LionQ&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 II6:45:47Why captured European fleets would strain the KriegsmarineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:48:29Why keeping production batches together can ease maintenanceNotable Point
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy53:38Merchant construction can keep naval shipyards aliveNotable Point
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy55:01Peacetime production sets the wartime expansion baselineNotable Point
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy58:36Industrial decisions shape wars decades laterNotable Point
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?17:24The US Navy's precarious position before MidwayChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...19:27American merchant shipbuilding becomes a national megaprojectNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...57:22Liberty ships form a global-war transport systemChapter
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:40Nordic fleet repairs and Britain's missile production reserveNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why12:10Why the Royal Navy fielded so many 4-inch gunsChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:44:21Why wartime shipbuilding made destroyers the mass threatNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit35:47Shipbuilding remains a strategic function after war beginsNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:44Secret Number 13-class battleships and Japanese readinessQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:02New explosives factories take time to support a Crete bombing campaignQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:03Holding Narvik could redirect Swedish iron ore into Allied steelNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:35:43Aircraft replacement shortfalls weakened Japan before MidwayNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership11:55America's First World War mobilization offers a warningNotable Point
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:29What the 1920s Royal Navy should stockpile for the next warQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...14:13Why mass rocket artillery did not emerge in World War IQ&A
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?54:58A negotiated answer to Churchill's construction pausesChapter
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:14Could Ford repeat its Eagle boat shipbuilding project?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:57How much could the Galactic Empire mobilise for total war?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:48Defending Earth before Space Battleship Yamato's warQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:31Keeping UNCF industry alive in concealed asteroid basesNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:16The postwar order after a successful UNCF defenceQ&A
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him16:44Why wartime warship programs arrive lateNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:09Combining British and American industrial advantagesQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:37Japan's decisive-battle gamble against larger powersQ&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:38:55Why Germany kept building eleven-inch naval gunsNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:32:01How institutions and infrastructure decided the battleChapter
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit2:35:14Exports, imports, and mobilization compete for Swedish industryQ&A
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes11:40Sixty corvettes mobilized yards across AustraliaNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes30:02A robust design kept widely built ships operationally consistentNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...27:21The 1932 estimate for emergency sixteen-inch mountingsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...16:23Radar innovation before and during the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:43:42Why wartime carrier expansion must begin before the warQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:15:47How Napoleonic shipbuilders could contribute in 1936Q&A
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin5:49Why rearmament depends on national capacityNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin57:54Using Second World War carrier lessons with careChapter
- HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 247:30Civilian industry before military conversionNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier12:08Why civilian industry sustains the arms raceNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built38:58The factory network behind British naval ammunitionQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:17:39Why wartime fleets stop chasing maximum ship sizeQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle13:39Fleet expansion also served British industrial recoveryNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle42:15Japanese limits meet American industrial massChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:23:17Routine bombardments reveal changing campaign momentumChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London16:04Shipyard employment softens Labour resistance to naval spendingNotable Point
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...52:26Parasite craft distribute risk away from the fleetNotable Point
- Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History13:15American entry begins correcting a top-heavy fleetNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19424:16:00Would all 24 Essex-class carriers still be built?Q&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:44:24Escort mass production demonstrated industrial intentChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:04:13Could steady interwar sloop building have changed World War II?Q&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:12:08Eight sloops a year could reshape the early U-boat warChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:17:40How sustained sloop building could aid destroyersQ&A
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 714:47The Ten Year Rule and the Royal Navy's 1942 submarine plansNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 719:48War-emergency orders and Britain's 1942 risk planningNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 71:23:24Why S-class mass production mattered in wartimeChapter
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike26:11American persistence undermines the decisive-battle premiseNotable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 213:24Twenty-four sloops from a distributed shipbuilding baseNotable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response11:23Flower-class output depended on slipways and fitting-out capacityQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:27:00Standardization trades perfection for productionNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies1:02:37Air-to-air missiles make trained pilots a strategic targetChapter
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?1:00:00What limited wartime shipyard expansion?Q&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:55:45A wartime construction pause delayed Britain's new capital shipsNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses47:24The industrial pressure behind the postwar building paceNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)1:00:30Panama Canal control and American industrial mobilisationQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:20:56Castex on national defence councilsChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 5(March 2023)58:01Using quiet turns to finance the next campaignsChapter
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.2:48:06Earlier shell reform could face less competition for explosivesNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century52:15How coastal convoy geography and shipbuilding shaped the submarine contestNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:48:05The research and industrial foundations behind nuclear submarinesChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:57:08Shipyards need administrative memory to regenerate fleetsNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:57:42Wartime shipbuilding widens the carrier gapChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:13:09How long would Japan hold out?Q&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:29:14Would Pacific mobilization weaken a later convoy war?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:39:56Short-war budgets leave shortages when fighting continuesNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:56:16Why the Royal Navy retained proven boilersQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:21:45Mass production makes escort carriers the dominant US typeChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:52:52When Japan could have switched to 40 mm AAQ&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?25:30How would French ammunition be resupplied?Q&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
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194129:10The Alaska class and finite American industryNotable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments23:24Why a Southern Hemisphere industrial bloc needed an earlier startQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193926:41Rearmament versus First World War debt repaymentNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193932:24Turning British aircraft engines into mass productionNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193949:53Removing radar, turbine, and gun-production bottlenecksNotable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.56:47Why British ASW construction still arrived lateQ&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)20:53A cruiser order could preserve a small yard for mobilizationNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions43:44Why shipyards limit fleet expansion before training doesQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:27:29Missile stock depth in a long naval warQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:01:21War accelerates implementation more than inventionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:25:30Britain shifted wartime construction rather than stopping itQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:18:28The limits of America's industrial lead timeQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)3:13Interventionist economics underpins the treaty counterfactualChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)8:21A Commonwealth escort industrial baseNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)9:39Small-craft flotillas expand local defense and industryNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)20:44Peacetime orders sustain yards and turbine skillsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)49:14Limits drove building while unlimited needs languishedNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)39:26Naval construction as recovery and industrial preparationChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)15:43Akagi's reconstruction and Japan's industrial limitsNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)49:07A starship replicator instead of a mothball fleetNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century18:54Wolf 359 prompts a Galaxy production surgeNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:18:53Distributed shipyards obscure Starfleet's true hull capacityNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion20:29Why surface raiding needs numbersNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion23:41The steady drumbeat of naval ordersChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion37:27Treaty-induced neglect and wartime rearmamentChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?54:56How long would synthetic-fuel plants take to build?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:44:25Industrial timetables, Hitler's gambles, and the early warNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?56:14What Pearl Harbor was supposed to buyChapter
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?59:05Damaging Pearl Harbor versus stopping mobilizationNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:14:34Operational damage and the missed repair facilitiesNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:18:56Taranto and the problem of damaging too muchNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol1:17:34New Orleans survives catastrophic damage and returns to warNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:26:39Why Blackburn was well placed to win naval aircraft workQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea9:44Rearmament needed yards, workers, and timeNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI14:58When emergency shipbuilding success becomes a peacetime excuseNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)29:22Why ten secret Montanas would trigger a naval raceQ&A
- Battle of Bull Run: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p1/712:22Union resources compound with timeNotable Point
- Battle of Bull Run: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p1/721:37The case for delaying Confederate secessionNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:23:11Wartime production must balance quality and quantityNotable Point
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live38:00Was the B-29 really a wartime invention?Q&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live42:38Why U.S. wartime development had room to runQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live44:50Was the Manhattan Project a wartime invention?Q&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:27:55Why Kantai Kessen could not solve Japan's industrial mismatchNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:01:10Could modern industry build battleship guns again?Notable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190823:29Foreign dreadnought orders preserve surge capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:35:29Why short-war assumptions hollow out the industrial baseQ&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History4:15Why infrastructure and merchant shipping belong in war historyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History8:43Total war pools public money and private productionNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History16:18Portland factories substitute wood and mass-produce landing craftChapter
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History18:44Worker ideas and retention sustain tank-lighter outputNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History25:33Private yards build most US naval tonnage with public investmentChapter
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History26:38Warship production depends on vast supplier networksNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History33:57Reliable prewar orders finance American industrial expansionChapter
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History34:57Canada builds the base for wartime expansion before the warNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:07:34Comparing national performance across two world warsQ&A
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi3:44:23Conflict Unending treats fleet war as an industrial contestChapter
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi3:54:35War for the Empire shows a defeated fleet adaptingTranscript Excerpt
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?9:59Removing prices turns Allied economies into one war machineChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?19:31Production cost replaces purchase priceChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA37:34Allied orders accelerate American industrial mobilizationChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease2:29Why rearmament must begin years before a predicted warChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease6:01How wartime demand freezes available designs into productionChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease14:39Infrastructure is the hidden lead time behind rearmamentChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease17:35Armour-steel capacity cannot be switched back on overnightChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease19:09Annual M1 Abrams orders preserve an industrial optionNotable Point
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...14:01How Lend-Lease joined British technology to American scaleChapter
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...1:31:50Cash-and-carry exhausted Britain's dollarsChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class27:52Industrial capacity let Britain turn surplus guns into monitorsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)30:22War stocks versus just-in-time efficiencyChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)33:44Dockyard slack enabled Falklands mobilisationNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay2:17:54Technology leadership before mass productionQ&A
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:43:31Perth endurance and the limits of mobilization ordersNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 43:20A Pacific war as an early rearmament triggerNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 410:40Aircraft production without an immediate bombing threatNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 429:05American preparedness and British commerce raidingQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 410:12How a Pacific-first war changes British procurementNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:11:58The opening years of war are fought with the prewar fleetNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?6:35Naval guns as long-lead mobilization itemsNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war36:33How quickly wartime attack boats could be builtQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:06:16Why modern Royal Navy patrol ships are lightly armedQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:16:47Keeping small-boat designs alive after the warQ&A