Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Institutional Memory

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  1. Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...
    0:47Rebuilding a navy after losing its experienced peopleChapter
  2. Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...
    27:26Why advanced boilers needed accumulated manufacturing experienceNotable Point
  3. Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...
    45:48Assessing the destroyer that the yard actually builtNotable Point
  4. Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...
    51:07Why central control failed to guarantee shipyard standardsNotable Point
  5. What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?
    35:27Standard hulls and Germany's lost shipbuilding skillsChapter
  6. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    49:07Building destroyers before the postwar budget contractionNotable Point
  7. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    56:05Shipyard closure and the loss of institutional memoryNotable Point
  8. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:59:55Continuous shipbuilding and Germany's loss of design experienceQ&A
  9. What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)
    15:23CVA-01 deck studies and Invincible's single islandNotable Point
  10. What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)
    1:08:49Why was Invincible's fuel management so elaborate?Q&A
  11. What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)
    1:36:42Deck-edge lifts compete with North Sea experienceNotable Point
  12. Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)
    2:08:52Capital-ship design knowledge that never reached the paperworkQ&A
  13. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    1:17:58A slower U-boat expansion risks losing its training cadreNotable Point
  14. Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?
    33:13Long ship lives connect generations of crewsNotable Point
  15. Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...
    31:03Harwich memory becomes an institutional systemNotable Point
  16. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    0:55Institutional memory favors balanced naval forcesChapter
  17. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    22:32Military technologies usually mature by evolution rather than surpriseNotable Point
  18. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:39:29Why a long-term plan must survive its author's departureNotable Point
  19. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    57:56Shipyard knowledge depends on people staying connectedNotable Point
  20. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    1:28:41Consultants and institutional memory in ship designChapter
  21. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    1:30:14Personal accounts of impractical engineering changesNotable Point
  22. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:03:34Why officers need naval history and public communicationChapter
  23. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:31:01The book's lesson: leaders take years to makeQ&A
  24. Why Historians are useful for Military & Naval Training?
    0:00History as institutional memory for officersChapter
  25. Nelson: A Very British God of War...
    1:48Admiral Henderson and the cost of missing successionNotable Point
  26. Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean
    58:58The institutional cost of treating leaders as indispensableNotable Point
  27. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    51:14Why the Royal Navy invested in night shadowingNotable Point
  28. École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy
    2:55Why naval staff rides are harder than battlefield tours ashoreNotable Point
  29. École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy
    3:10Three ways navies preserve institutional memoryNotable Point
  30. École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy
    7:44The Jeune École and France's recovery of naval memoryNotable Point
  31. École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy
    18:21Induction traditions and the making of officer identityNotable Point
  32. The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory
    50:53Suffren provides the counterpoint to France's naval nadirNotable Point
  33. The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory
    1:40:28Command depth keeps damaged British ships in actionNotable Point
  34. Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?
    11:31Shipyards and lost expertise constrained Plan ZChapter
  35. The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose
    15:47How France lost naval expertise before the coalition warsNotable Point
  36. The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose
    19:02Why revolutionary Trees of Liberty kept dyingNotable Point
  37. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:40:45What a Japanese naval pilot-recovery system could preserveQ&A
  38. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    1:27:08Which First World War leaders shaped the next navies?Notable Point
  39. Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership
    1:35Why the Royal Navy centralized officer educationChapter
  40. Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership
    27:33Naval college libraries and changing knowledge prioritiesNotable Point
  41. Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership
    40:43Centralized memory and the modern naval academyChapter
  42. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    2:03:27Why Ark Royal's air group was ready for BismarckNotable Point
  43. How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...
    16:03Missions, sea control, and institutional continuityNotable Point
  44. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    19:11Laughton builds the sources needed for serious naval historyNotable Point
  45. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    23:24HMS Conqueror marks Laughton's value to the wartime NavyNotable Point
  46. Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...
    1:30:07How audience shapes the lessons in an official reportNotable Point
  47. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:09:03Why the First Sea Lord lacked a formal staffNotable Point
  48. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    1:20:34Could a new First Sea Lord replace the inherited staff?Q&A
  49. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    3:22What counts as naval culture?Q&A
  50. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    9:15When unwritten naval knowledge disappearsNotable Point
  51. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    55:13Institutional memory at the first clash of warNotable Point
  52. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    1:04:20Building common naval culture in a fragmented ageQ&A
  53. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    1:07:29The Royal Navy documented technique but left culture implicitChapter
  54. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    1:15:15Battle summaries as the Royal Navy's first draft of historyNotable Point
  55. Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4
    1:18:21Why a contemporary error can remain valuable evidenceNotable Point
  56. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    12:18Training, maintenance, and institutional memoryNotable Point
  57. Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS
    20:44How the Fleet Air Arm spread hard-won experienceNotable Point
  58. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    24:39Shipbuilding knowledge that manuals do not preserveNotable Point
  59. Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!
    32:18Officer losses and French naval effectivenessNotable Point
  60. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    12:01Aircrew losses were a strategic lossNotable Point
  61. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    1:37:07The aircrew cost that made victory hollowChapter
  62. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    28:33Damage-control practice preserves institutional memoryNotable Point
  63. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    11:18The Keppel-Palliser affair and Royal Navy political cautionQ&A
  64. Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier
    0:42Institutional memory and the submarine ambush ethosChapter
  65. Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier
    3:19How Tribal destroyers and the SAS built operational identitiesNotable Point
  66. Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier
    25:20Torpedo testing as a practical advantageNotable Point
  67. Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier
    30:43Karlsruhe's flooded generators and the scuttling decisionNotable Point
  68. HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 2
    2:29:21War memory and the initiative in the 1930sNotable Point
  69. The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem
    25:33The Falklands amphibious force needs ships, craft, and helicoptersChapter
  70. Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation
    38:35Postwar personnel losses break German carrier continuityNotable Point
  71. The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 6
    50:31Design studies build institutional memory before the King George V classChapter
  72. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    1:52:20Plans alone could not restore German heavy-gun productionQ&A
  73. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 2
    1:45:00Counter-flooding caution was mistaken for prohibitionNotable Point
  74. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    3:03:07Previous victories shaped Japan's expectation of negotiated peaceNotable Point
  75. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    3:35:23How treaty-era construction preserved British armor expertiseNotable Point
  76. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    54:20First World War veterans carried authority into the next warNotable Point
  77. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    1:12:38Victory preserved more First World War leaders on the Allied sideNotable Point
  78. Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough
    5:11Recurring ship roles reward institutional memoryNotable Point
  79. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    4:12The shipbuilding base Germany had lostNotable Point
  80. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    34:28High-pressure boilers turn engineering into craftNotable Point
  81. Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...
    25:06Why Soviet naval NCOs matteredQ&A
  82. Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    31:31Institutional memory set the Royal Navy's prioritiesNotable Point
  83. Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)
    51:47The Terror removed an experienced French admiralNotable Point
  84. Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?
    46:04Fleet generation before French institutional attritionNotable Point
  85. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    1:53:39Crusader Kings and knowledge built across generationsNotable Point
  86. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    1:54:13Carrier gaps and institutional memoryNotable Point
  87. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    1:57:08Shipyards need administrative memory to regenerate fleetsNotable Point
  88. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    2:01:52Yes Minister, civil-service continuity and ministerial tenureNotable Point
  89. Ship Design
    3:05Rope accounts and missing practical knowledgeNotable Point
  90. Ship Design
    36:02Drafting, calculations, and a culture of challengeNotable Point
  91. Ship Design
    46:33What judging a ship by eye can revealNotable Point
  92. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    1:06:50Skilled people as strategic reservesQ&A
  93. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    1:16:06Ships, crews, and tradition on sail-era timescalesNotable Point
  94. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    12:27Bearn and lost carrier momentumNotable Point
  95. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    14:48World War I damage and French leadershipChapter
  96. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    29:27War losses beyond the casualty totalsNotable Point
  97. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    45:55Carrier doctrine needed critical massNotable Point
  98. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    2:21:07A fast French fleet without its air componentChapter
  99. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    1:54:13Warship knowledge disappears when institutions stop practicing itQ&A
  100. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    2:00:34Roman concrete and Crossrail show why technical skills need continuityNotable Point
  101. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    3:18:31Axis battleships were constrained by numbers, oilers, and lost expertiseQ&A
  102. Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-1939
    57:45The Great Purge destroyed military and naval expertiseChapter
  103. Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-1939
    1:05:33Five-month leadership cycles erased institutional memoryNotable Point
  104. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    37:00Sailor pay as a recurring readiness problemQ&A
  105. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    1:19:50Did Codrington think he was another Nelson?Q&A
  106. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    43:09Interwar economies and defense as industrial investmentNotable Point
  107. Battle of Arausio (105BC): Rome's Second Great Loss & the Reforms it Led to
    0:08Why Arausio matters beyond its casualty countChapter
  108. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)
    21:55Historians as imperfect institutional memoryNotable Point
  109. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    1:28:54The carrier experience lost before Ark Royal sankQ&A
  110. Offset Strategies One to Four
    4:04Why trained personnel cannot be replaced like equipmentNotable Point
  111. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    7:07Why losing five frigates matteredChapter
  112. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:01:53What was the French Navy good at?Q&A
  113. Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)
    4:08The Second Coalition and cumulative naval lossesChapter
  114. Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)
    56:50Prisoner exchanges and the war for naval experienceNotable Point
  115. Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)
    39:40Tassafaronga: experience and culture shape survivalNotable Point
  116. All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    4:16Reichsmarine design choices and institutional memoryChapter
  117. Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)
    1:46:22Parliamentary pressure and naval leadership instabilityChapter
  118. Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)
    2:43:55A five-year model for the First Sea LordQ&A
  119. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    1:22:14How senior ratings preserve a ship's institutional memoryQ&A
  120. Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary
    9:39How a navy rebuilds institutional memoryQ&A
  121. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    41:39Spanish quality and French officer attritionChapter
  122. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders
    1:18How blockade weakened French commandChapter
  123. Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders
    27:02Amiens and France's lost training opportunityNotable Point
  124. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    2:52:28Japan's wasted investment was trained peopleQ&A
  125. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    2:59:49A pilot can qualify in months; experience takes a systemQ&A
  126. Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)
    18:54Jimmy Thach and the training cycleNotable Point
  127. Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)
    1:24:41The survivors expose Japan's training trapNotable Point
  128. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    2:32:06Why no last-minute German decision could reverse D-DayQ&A
  129. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    2:10:54Mission command existed before navies named itQ&A
  130. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    29:34A capable French navy faced Britain's institutional memoryChapter
  131. The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!
    1:42:50France blamed De Grasse and lost his experienceNotable Point
  132. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 1781
    20:18Dogger Bank as a test of crews and commandNotable Point
  133. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 1781
    22:39Why naval institutions mattered in France and the NetherlandsNotable Point
  134. Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War
    13:42Rapid wartime expansion erodes institutional memoryNotable Point
  135. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    11:48Pilot rotation preserved air-defence expertiseNotable Point
  136. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:35:14Warship names across changes of governmentNotable Point
  137. BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 2
    36:14Malta's layered offensive and coordination problemChapter
  138. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    1:24:14Survey data as Royal Navy operational memoryNotable Point
  139. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    2:18:58Defense procurement needs ministerial continuityNotable Point
  140. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 3
    9:41Michael Clapp and the Falklands amphibious forceChapter
  141. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 3
    22:39Nathaniel Barnaby builds a naval-construction institutionChapter
  142. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 3
    24:48Why command opportunities preserve naval memoryNotable Point
  143. Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 3
    29:03How memoirs and theory carry naval knowledgeNotable Point
  144. An Introduction to Falklands Command
    11:05Why amphibious experience still needed institutionsChapter
  145. An Introduction to Falklands Command
    30:56Historical study partly offset thin amphibious exercisesNotable Point