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- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?54:41Testing the Jeune École against guns and destroyer screensNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?0:00Why France bought destroyers from JapanChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?9:15Why defence planning needs an insurance policyNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?31:42Why did France order only 12 Japanese destroyers?Notable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...0:24Torpedo boat destroyers as fleet screensChapter
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:44:47France's six-year race to recover from Jeune Ecole disruptionChapter
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:18:09How Jeune Ecole disputes weakened French shell testingQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:54:46Hybrid Navy doctrine could be integrated flotilla warfare or a Jeune École gambleQ&A
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered24:02From Jeune Ecole shortcuts to flotilla defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:23French capital ships without the Jeune Ecole detourQ&A
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet48:48A balanced fleet rejects small-ship-only doctrineNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI11:02Claymore and Branlebas expose Jeune Ecole legacyChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI16:11Flotilla defence still requires a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI20:29Infrastructure limits procurement doctrineNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI49:43The M89 fleet destroyer remains unrealizedNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI53:24Larger destroyers compete with the need for more hullsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:58USVs, the Jeune École, and rapid-firing defencesQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:14Why fibre-optic drone control becomes harder at seaQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:24Did the Jeune École win by forcing defensive spending?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:40:24Why did the Jeune Ecole fail as guerrilla warfare at sea?Q&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:14The Whitehead torpedo tests the balanced-fleet ideaNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development7:28Aube's battleship pause leaves France the restart problemNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....38:51An armored two-decker fleet could be too costly for many rivalsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart7:03Jeune Ecole U.S. Navy recovery problemQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart7:16The capital-ship expertise lost under Jeune EcoleNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart8:41How a weak U.S. battle fleet changes the Pacific balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart10:30Battlecruisers as the high end of Jeune Ecole doctrineNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI33:57Naval arms races and the German army's budget ceilingNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:40Courbet turret loading and France's delayed dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:31A French fleet built against Jeune École ideasQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:07When French hotel-style battleships might have workedQ&A
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...13:11Why destroyers began displacing torpedo boatsChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)31:34Warrior and the limits of technological deterrenceNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?37:01Why Royal Navy destroyers grew beyond the S138sNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202616:09The Jeune École made torpedo boats a fleet strategyChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:02:58How can leaders avoid the Jeune École's confirmation bias?Q&A
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers11:46Jeune Ecole torpedo strategy meets the distant blockadeChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers20:06Jeune Ecole moved from explosive shells to fast torpedo boatsNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers41:40Did Jeune Ecole influence other navies' strategies?Q&A
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...21:21French cruisers carry a global mission on treaty displacementChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?6:41Why torpedo boats produced the destroyerChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:05:44Threat diversity restarts the small-craft arms cycleChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:03:19Missile navies repeat part of the Jeune École patternQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:04:16Will uncrewed craft create a new Jeune École?Q&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)3:06:41Drone threats and the gun defences actually fittedQ&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:13:04How would other European navies respond?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress9:32:10Torpedo-boat doctrine and unreliable enginesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:28:26French pre-dreadnoughts without the Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:04:55How Jeune École theory distorted French fleet developmentQ&A
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships28:44Shipbuilding knowledge, infrastructure, and fleet massNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:59The nineteenth century's largest naval missed opportunitiesQ&A
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy7:44The Jeune École and France's recovery of naval memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:47:26Why changing Jeune École takes more than one personQ&A
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:45:58Gorshkov's small ships did not make his fleet Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:12Which admirals deserved latrine duty instead of command?Q&A
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned32:44Japan's Six-Six Fleet and local sea controlChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?3:16Geography decided whether attrition strategy could workNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership37:26The Jeune École legacy compounds French policy instabilityNotable Point
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina27:56Why Saint-Bon rejected a small-ship strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:23The Jeune École detour and France's dreadnought lagNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...11:48The Jeune École's torpedo objection to battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:31:19Keeping French battleship construction continuousQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:12:51A French battle fleet without Jeune École disruptionQ&A
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...59:42The Jeune École and the growth of small combatantsChapter
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:49The Marceau class and France's return to capital-ship constructionNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...23:11Why France could not jump straight to dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?0:00Jeune École as a warning against one-technology fleetsChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?4:18France's strategic dilemma and the appeal of small shipsChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?7:24Shared weapons undercut the small-ship advantageNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?11:26Why Red Sea disruption does not vindicate the Jeune ÉcoleNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?13:17Torpedo boats, submarines, and global imperial commitmentsChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?20:07A theory that assumes an obliging enemyChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?26:25Hoche enters a disrupted construction systemChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?59:11The 1886-87 pause and a widening British production gapChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:06:35Factional leadership turns procurement into a political contestChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:17:20Doctrine becomes destructive when treated as an absoluteNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:20:39A viable Jeune École still needs a battle fleetNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:23:48Theodore Ropp and the continuing debate over the Jeune ÉcoleNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:26:46What happens when both navies choose flotilla defence?Notable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:27:55Why the French battlehotels rose skywardChapter
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:54:06The new Jeune École and claims for drone warfareQ&A
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings45:54Quick-firing guns undercut the Jeune École's cheap-warship promiseNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:20:49Why Italy built so many torpedo-cruiser classesQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:50:01Why the Balaney torpedo boats symbolize French naval declineQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:58:00A French capital-ship program without the Jeune École turnQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!52:46French colonial ironclads carried armored presence overseasNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!3:02:36French naval strength in 1870 before the Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:11:12The Jeune Ecole's torpedo strategy meets quick-firing gunsNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons7:40Early seaplanes as an answer to capital-ship limitsNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:08:57Innovation creates a logistics burdenNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:30:17Japan gave legacy ships bounded supporting rolesNotable Point
- Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory2:28Prussian victories still relied on British sea powerNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole1:36Jeune École as an offset strategyChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole3:45Why submarines still depend on shore supportNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole6:28Explosive shells meet the ironcladChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole16:09Postwar introspection reaches French procurementChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole18:05Torpedoes promise a cheap decisive weaponChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole22:39A cheap weapon still demands research and purposeNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole29:41Lissa fails to validate a pure Jeune École fleetNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole41:21A technical method is not a complete strategyChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole43:25Possible successors to the surface torpedo boatNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:03:38Reading and translating Castex's naval theoryChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:20French innovation versus carrier weaknessChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers10:09Cruising role and Jeune Ecole offset strategyNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response5:08Why continued Sverdlov construction suggests a practical naval purposeNotable Point
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)12:15Jeune École strategy and the armored-cruiser shiftNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)2:33Descartes, first principles, and Jeune Ecole's one-sided logicChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)21:38France's 1890 fleet plan pursues numerical superiorityChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)50:12Jeune Ecole fails France's peacetime presence testChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)53:04Fisher makes Jeune Ecole ideas useful inside a wider fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road41:44Gannet and Forbin reveal different ideas of the imperial cruiserQ&A
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 56:10William White and professional naval constructionChapter
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 30:13Why torpedo-boat flotillas needed a cruiser leaderChapter
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 33:53Charmes built commerce-raider survival around guns and speedNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 36:32Aube's ministry produced specifications in less than a dayNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 329:22The Jeune École neglected the fleet enablers its strategy requiredNotable Point
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p96:48How the Conseil des travaux shaped French warshipsChapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p936:53Sfax's legacy in French protected-cruiser designNotable Point
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p938:16Sfax versus Leander and the flaw in Jeune École commerce warChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War20:59Why French yards could outpace USS Maine's constructionNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19394:52Why France had little room to recover by 1939Chapter
- Offset Strategies One to Four0:46How offset strategy differs from the Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less1:25Was the Jeune Ecole an early offset doctrine?Chapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less2:55Explosive shells reset rather than end the naval raceChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less12:06Commerce warfare fills the gap after fleet attackChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less17:24Why Jeune Ecole was doctrine rather than strategyNotable Point
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less20:04Three failures of wonder-weapon thinkingChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less24:10Jeune Ecole ideas influence the wider design debateNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:55:56Cruiser tonnage might have bought battleships or torpedo swarmsNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)0:45Why French cruiser policy pulled in three directionsChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)18:23Could carriers have bridged France's doctrinal schism?Notable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)22:54Naval chiefs faced a revived Jeune EcoleChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)55:18Emile Bertin and the missed carrier logic of Jeune EcoleNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:16:34Elegant ships from an inconsistent naval systemChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)6:00Why the Jeune École still shaped French cruisersChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)12:05Why cruisers remained economic-warfare weaponsChapter
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:08:40The aircraft carrier as a missed Jeune École opportunityNotable Point
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:53:40Could destroyer packs overwhelm French cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:19:08Why early French dreadnoughts lagged their rivalsQ&A
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)15:03Jeune École: torpedo boats as a substitute for a fleetChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine33:29Jeune École treated torpedo flotillas as a deterrentChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine39:35Modern weapons do not prove Jeune École correctQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine43:26Fisher made flotilla defence support the battle fleetQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine50:09Austria-Hungary backed flotilla defence with dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:14:52Q&A: Could Russia make a Jeune École fleet work?Q&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:27:28The 1914 fleet was strongest below the capital-ship levelChapter
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru16:22How the Royal Navy could answer a Jeune École fleetQ&A
- The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol41:04Jeune École as a theory for fighting a world warNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)25:40Jeune École strategy and the battlecruiser France did not buildQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)1:05:38The intelligence sequence behind Kantai KessenChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?38:42Kantai Kessen was not simply Mahan plus the Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI0:54The Dupuy de Lôme-class steam-submarine experimentNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 5/11 Building a Navy7:34Doctrine did not produce a balanced French fleetChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 2/11 1890s Battleships7:14Jeune École ideas with battleship hedgingNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class8:12Jeune École, flotilla defence, and larger successorsChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean2:13Jeune École repackages an old promiseChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean4:18The armoured cruiser as a commerce raiderChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean6:34Why technology is not a strategyNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean28:38French victory over China did not prove the doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI12:47Jeune École and the commerce-raider promiseChapter
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:28:18Did Japanese torpedo doctrine preserve Jeune Ecole ideas?Q&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:40:43Torpedo boats and destroyer originsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A31:07Why French pre-dreadnoughts pursued unusual solutionsQ&A