Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Kantai Kessen

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  1. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    2:12Why Japan's decisive battle strategy needed a negotiated peaceChapter
  2. 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
  3. Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...
    50:17Kantai Kessen concludes Japan's attrition campaignNotable Point
  4. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    1:24:56The Java Sea is the wrong setting for Kantai KessenNotable Point
  5. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    30:07Small task groups within a centralized attrition strategyNotable Point
  6. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    41:25A proposed evolution from a raid to a fleet-disabling strikeChapter
  7. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:03:27Why Japan selected six carriers instead of its whole carrier forceChapter
  8. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:18:35How did feigned retreat fit Japanese naval doctrine?Q&A
  9. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:54:39How Pearl Harbor disrupted Japan's own attrition strategyNotable Point
  10. Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class
    45:29Origins of Kantai Kessen and Taikan Kyohō ShugiChapter
  11. Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...
    1:21:44Choosing the ground for decisive battle at TsushimaChapter
  12. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II
    1:21:43Hirohito’s marine biology and the limits of Kantai KessenQ&A
  13. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    1:43:56The German plan depended on defeating the Royal Navy in detailNotable Point
  14. What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108
    2:34:52How delay changes Japan's attrition doctrineChapter
  15. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    0:00Santa Cruz as a fight for the initiativeChapter
  16. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    51:16Design choices shaped the forces behind the totalsNotable Point
  17. IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class
    6:13Beyond a one-note decisive-battle doctrineNotable Point
  18. IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class
    7:47Why naval doctrine cannot be reduced to one sloganNotable Point
  19. Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!
    9:38Kantai Kessen and expected American behaviorQ&A
  20. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    1:27:20Reconnaissance counters Japan's interception-attrition planChapter
  21. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    1:54:45Kantai Kessen would not dictate a European naval warQ&A
  22. Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 1938
    37:08Attrition doctrine and Kantai KessenChapter
  23. Battle of Blackett Strait
    2:03:08American advances invert Japan's attrition planNotable Point
  24. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    25:39Avoiding Japan's decisive-battle trapChapter
  25. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    27:08Tsushima and the cost of an unsupported fleet deploymentNotable Point
  26. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:34:17Carriers already serve the decisive-battle strategyQ&A
  27. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    12:49Japanese doctrine beyond the decisive battleChapter
  28. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    26:11American persistence undermines the decisive-battle premiseNotable Point
  29. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    51:37Pearl Harbor may have overachieved its purposeNotable Point
  30. If not Pearl Harbour?
    20:20Japanese doctrine was a planning system, not one battle sloganNotable Point
  31. If not Pearl Harbour?
    22:07Attrition before the decisive battleChapter
  32. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 2
    1:25:40British officers understood Japanese decisive-battle thinkingNotable Point
  33. Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?
    2:17:17Could invading Hawaii have forced Japan's decisive battle?Notable Point
  34. A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 7
    22:42Yamato as the baseline for a larger battle fleetChapter
  35. A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 7
    27:00An attrition fleet built to fight before it is lostNotable Point
  36. Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway
    0:51Why Midway was not Japan's fully concentrated decisive battleChapter
  37. Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?
    1:23:17Japanese attrition doctrine meets operating limitsChapter
  38. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    54:00Why Pacific battleships saw fewer fleet actionsQ&A
  39. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1942
    3:42Abandon the short-war assumption behind Kantai KessenChapter
  40. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1940
    7:57Synthetic fuel, railways, and submarines for JapanChapter
  41. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    20:45Kantai Kessen and its dangerous assumptionChapter
  42. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    1:14:00Why attrition, not a second Tsushima, is the likely outcomeChapter
  43. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    59:48Kantai Kessen meets British and American basesChapter
  44. The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound
    9:17Kantai Kessen and the danger of planning for a foolish enemyNotable Point
  45. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    9:17Kantai Kessen and the danger of assuming enemy cooperationNotable Point
  46. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    1:16:10The decisive-battle problem in Japan's Pacific strategyNotable Point
  47. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    3:38Operation Tan No. 2 and decisive-battle thinkingChapter
  48. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)
    30:24Tone class and reconnaissance-cruiser compromiseChapter
  49. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    1:43:50Tone class and the need to find the enemyChapter
  50. 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
  51. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    17:46Kantai Kessen begins with attritionChapter
  52. 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
  53. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    26:32Why Pearl Harbor was not the desired battlefieldChapter
  54. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    50:30A Hawaiian invasion would have changed the warQ&A
  55. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    56:42The Philippines were central to Japan’s expectationQ&A
  56. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    1:07:37Midway reversed the doctrine’s advantageQ&A
  57. 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
  58. The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol
    1:09:06Quiberon Bay and strategic decisivenessChapter
  59. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    0:35Pearl Harbor beyond one doctrineChapter
  60. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    6:03Mahan and the selling power of decisive battleNotable Point
  61. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    11:06Decisive battle, democracy, and negotiated peaceNotable Point
  62. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    17:33How Kantai Kessen was meant to workChapter
  63. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    26:36Attrition before the decisive battleChapter
  64. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    44:22Doctrine and unbalanced Japanese cruisersNotable Point
  65. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    1:18:56Taranto and the problem of damaging too muchNotable Point
  66. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    3:22:41Japanese doctrine beyond Kantai KessenNotable Point
  67. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    22:33Withdrawal offered a better use of Japan's remaining strengthNotable Point
  68. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    49:32Intelligence reveals the run, but victory means different thingsNotable Point
  69. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    1:23:30Tassafaronga was a tactical coup without strategic rescueChapter
  70. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    28:10Redirecting Japanese submarines toward fleet tankersQ&A
  71. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    0:55Japanese heavy cruisers as reconnaissance by forceChapter
  72. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    14:56Kantai Kessen and the cost of preserving strengthChapter
  73. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    17:38Kantai Kessen as a reverse risk-fleet strategyNotable Point
  74. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    21:45Midway and the contingency Japan did not planNotable Point
  75. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    23:59Three cruiser roles in the decisive-battle planChapter
  76. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    1:02:11Essential cruisers, distorted by doctrineChapter
  77. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    1:05:38The intelligence sequence behind Kantai KessenChapter
  78. Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?
    26:42Kessen doctrine as an answer to industrial limitsQ&A
  79. 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
  80. Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?
    40:31Cruisers caught between scouting and battle-line supportChapter
  81. 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
  82. Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?
    1:25:12Why Japanese planners still expected a fleet battleQ&A
  83. Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?
    1:53:04A reconnaissance cruiser needs aircraft, not another gun turretNotable Point
  84. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:20:38Pearl Harbor fell short of Japan's decisive-battle doctrineNotable Point
  85. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties
    21:23Concentrated fleet doctrine versus distributed warNotable Point
  86. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:20:37Ise and Hyuga were rebuilt for decisive-battle strike powerChapter
  87. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:46:50Intelligence and decisive-battle doctrine shaped MidwayQ&A
  88. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    1:01:54Japan began a naval war without its support systemQ&A
  89. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    1:54:25Why the force balance never reached Kantai Kessen parityChapter
  90. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    3:01:19The fundamental flaw in Kantai KessenChapter
  91. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    1:27:55Why Kantai Kessen could not solve Japan's industrial mismatchNotable Point
  92. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:43:47China Station knowledge of Japanese decisive-battle doctrineNotable Point
  93. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:50:56Countering Japanese night torpedo doctrineQ&A