Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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International Relations

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  1. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:32:59HMS Amethyst and the political choice to contain a naval incidentQ&A
  2. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:39:30Realpolitik, historical apologies and the interests of statesNotable Point
  3. The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)
    50:37Frigate procurement and the confidence behind deterrenceChapter
  4. Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:26:54Why domestic political messages can complicate diplomacyNotable Point
  5. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:19:02A British regime-change attempt after the Falklands WarQ&A
  6. Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:30:54Roosevelt instead of Truman at PotsdamQ&A
  7. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    29:14Reciprocal trust in alliance diplomacyNotable Point
  8. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:29:38Why diplomatic models need human psychologyNotable Point
  9. The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More
    1:24:05German fleet building reshapes international alignmentsChapter
  10. The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More
    1:28:13Arbitration treaties qualify an alliance commitmentNotable Point
  11. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:04:10The European assumption behind predictions of lasting peaceNotable Point
  12. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    1:18:01Economic strength and the limits of imposed peaceNotable Point
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:36:00A proposed mediation approach based on confidence and compromiseQ&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:37:31Confidence and collective restraint in a diplomatic analogyNotable Point
  15. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:43:25Fear as an interpretation of state aggressionNotable Point
  16. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    3:43:28Why moving a treaty meeting from Monday to Wednesday matteredNotable Point
  17. Procuring for Peace First Draft
    9:55Presence combines intelligence, information, and visibilityNotable Point
  18. Procuring for Peace First Draft
    13:55Collective security depends on national participationNotable Point
  19. Procuring for Peace First Draft
    24:30Deterrent messages must be clear and credibleNotable Point
  20. Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...
    8:28Isolation makes states easier to manipulateNotable Point
  21. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:04:02Why existential threats create unlikely coalitionsQ&A
  22. Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.
    12:57Why public opinion complicates conflict managementNotable Point
  23. École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy
    34:10The modern six-semester officer courseChapter
  24. The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!
    12:27Diplomatic language must survive multiple audiencesNotable Point
  25. Procurement for Peace: Second Draft(Part 1)
    3:35Procuring military capability for peaceChapter
  26. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    2:31:52Routes into postgraduate naval historyQ&A
  27. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:57:18Modern Canada in 1935 confronts the limits of avoiding warQ&A
  28. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:00:02World police, imperial umpire, and alliance burden sharingNotable Point
  29. Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat
    43:14The post-Cold War budget paradigm turns against specialistsNotable Point
  30. Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?
    3:18:44A truly isolationist America changes the prewar treaty systemNotable Point
  31. Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...
    24:01How planners should treat a state's declared intentionsNotable Point
  32. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:08When summit diplomacy exposes personal rivalryNotable Point
  33. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    53:46Why the end-of-history idea survived the 1990sQ&A
  34. The Monroe Doctrine: The Myth, The Legend, The Rhetoric, The Reality!
    1:06:46The Lodge Corollary extended exclusion to foreign companiesNotable Point
  35. Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 108
    35:10Japanese fatalism shapes the decisionChapter
  36. The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 7
    3:27Why the 1900s offer a closer strategic analogyNotable Point
  37. What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!
    1:21:03A 1914 peace with different consequencesChapter
  38. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:40:13The end-of-history claim repeats interwar hubrisNotable Point
  39. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:49:36Long-lived carriers return to a multipolar worldChapter
  40. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:47:37Treaty limits need credible enforcementNotable Point
  41. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    52:24Grand strategy and the value of restraintChapter
  42. Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:50:28British drug regulation and the limits of American soft powerNotable Point
  43. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    22:21How a habitable mirror planet could accelerate spaceflightQ&A
  44. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    3:07Imperial and Soviet Russia have different maritime outlooksNotable Point
  45. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    34:36The postwar powers divide into rival blocsChapter
  46. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    40:31Russia changes the League of Nations from the startChapter
  47. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    54:04Why the counterfactual stops in the 1920sNotable Point
  48. Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty
    1:32:09Could stronger treaty fleets improve diplomacy?Notable Point
  49. HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 8
    5:21Power depends on national self-perceptionNotable Point
  50. Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat
    53:38Why naval treaty tonnage was hard to enforceQ&A
  51. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 11
    1:48:32Maintaining minor allies after achieving naval superiorityNotable Point
  52. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:01:56How one fast battleship could trigger several foreign responsesNotable Point
  53. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    3:00:22Why one-country explanations fail historical causationQ&A
  54. HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 9
    4:21Conventional deterrence as conflict managementNotable Point
  55. HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 9
    6:24Using naval history to reason about deterrenceNotable Point
  56. HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 9
    9:11Nelson as an embodiment of distant imperial powerNotable Point
  57. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
    0:22National strength beyond military appearanceChapter
  58. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must
    7:45Friends, favours, and international strengthNotable Point
  59. From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos
    32:03Why BRICS is described as a talking shopQ&A
  60. What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...
    0:11Reading a treaty through its delegatesChapter
  61. What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...
    27:46Treaty limits and the problem of enforcementNotable Point
  62. What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...
    1:20:03Japanese diplomacy and trans-Pacific miscommunicationNotable Point
  63. Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?
    7:40Reading treaty priorities from the delegatesChapter
  64. Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?
    36:00Would Theodore Roosevelt have joined the League?Q&A
  65. Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?
    3:20:01When diplomatic meaning is lost in translationQ&A
  66. Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent
    34:06Mahan's later works and strategic dialogue with CorbettNotable Point
  67. Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts
    40:18When tension becomes warNotable Point
  68. What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response
    46:54Medieval and modern alliances did not impose the same obligationsNotable Point
  69. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    55:51International-relations models cannot remove cultural contextNotable Point
  70. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    59:02Why a secret weapon cannot deterQ&A
  71. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    1:04:24Why the United States is described as divided, not decliningQ&A
  72. Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations
    1:31:07When an ally provides diplomatic cover for restraintQ&A
  73. Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 10
    37:15Grafton, Guatemalan debt, and gunboat diplomacyNotable Point
  74. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 2
    40:18A coronation fleet review as naval diplomacyQ&A
  75. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    2:02Using an equitable treaty as an analytical baselineChapter
  76. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    40:01Why treaty replacement rules use year-end datesQ&A
  77. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    1:40:41A disciplined counterfactual method for treaties and shipsChapter
  78. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    1:49:15The Congress of Vienna as a benchmark for equitable peaceNotable Point
  79. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    1:50:42Hans Island and the limits of a 'perfect' treatyQ&A
  80. Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)
    2:47:03How domestic pressure can undermine alliance strategyChapter
  81. Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions
    1:04:21Why a modern Washington naval treaty needs many partiesQ&A
  82. The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    1:08:09Deterrence works by checking fear and greedChapter
  83. Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events
    57:09Did foreign powers exploit the American Civil War?Q&A
  84. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    41:41Postwar shock and the treaty-timing dilemmaNotable Point
  85. Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships
    9:43Why intergalactic politics still produces realpolitikNotable Point
  86. If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion
    1:04:26Postwar anti-war politics behind naval limitationChapter
  87. If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion
    1:09:14The danger of unenforceable naval limitsNotable Point
  88. The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol
    13:03World war, global war, and total warNotable Point
  89. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    2:18:06Q&A: who emerged stronger from the war?Q&A
  90. Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books
    29:38Moral and economic motives in British abolitionQ&A
  91. Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books
    36:44Cultural morality and recurring human taboosQ&A
  92. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    1:09:18Why democratic peace theory needs historical contextNotable Point
  93. Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore
    2:32:39Naval treaties relied on mutual restraintQ&A
  94. A Book or Two to Review (23): Rome's Great Eastern War
    10:12Why apparently minor interests can trigger warNotable Point
  95. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:12:09Why does sabotage not automatically trigger war?Q&A
  96. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:16:15A viewer links the Czech depot response to proof and escalationNotable Point
  97. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    20:40Why arms-control promises were difficult to trustNotable Point
  98. Bruships 36: International Relations
    34:51Nuclear deterrence and Pakistan's security outlookChapter
  99. Bruships 36: International Relations
    40:42How domestic experience shapes foreign policyNotable Point
  100. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:34:32Where history meets international-relations theoryQ&A
  101. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:37:54What international-relations theory meansQ&A
  102. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:38:10ReOrient as a factual rebalancing of economic historyNotable Point
  103. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:43:22The limits of treating international relations as a gameNotable Point
  104. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:48:09The zero-sum assumption in international relationsNotable Point
  105. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:50:11Thatcher's defense of Suharto's economic recordChapter
  106. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:52:41Thatcher's criticism of IMF conditions in IndonesiaChapter
  107. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:54:38Indonesian unity, shipping routes and separatismChapter
  108. The Great White Fleet
    45:51Why German expansion concerned powers beyond EuropeNotable Point
  109. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...
    31:57Multipolar instability increases the value of presenceChapter
  110. Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy
    17:14From bipolar Cold War order to a more complex presence missionNotable Point
  111. Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy
    29:42Cruiser diplomacy between routine presence and a battle fleetChapter
  112. Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"
    1:50:44How ideology can deepen a warNotable Point
  113. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    1:59:19Nation-states beneath supranational politicsQ&A
  114. Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:32:38Reading state behaviour through national interestsNotable Point
  115. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    20:37Soviet entry changes the coalition's politicsNotable Point
  116. Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    36:23Historical parallels for a tense political climateQ&A
  117. An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.
    1:31:47Public opinion constrains intervention choicesNotable Point
  118. 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…
    11:16Realism and the cost of learning too lateChapter
  119. 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…
    34:19Armed forces and diplomacy need different skillsNotable Point
  120. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:05:27Why states hesitate to support Taiwan more openlyNotable Point
  121. Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-1921
    30:33Japan's racial equality proposal and the search for respectChapter