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- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:28Sound Dues and the Russian shadow fleet's financial trailQ&A
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- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:55A navy for an independent Seventeen ProvincesQ&A
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- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...45:15Global trade made early naval presence cheaper than crisis responseNotable Point
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- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?32:18British maritime power depends on more than treaty parityChapter
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- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?14:04Self-government makes Hawaii a discreet trade hubNotable Point
- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?14:57Protection arrives before merchant opposition hardensNotable Point
- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?19:44British support expands Hawaiian seapower and coaling tradeNotable Point
- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?20:52A modest base deters interference and creates its own tradeChapter
- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?23:08American trade and merchant pressure on Hawaiian royal policyNotable Point
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- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:25Why bulk commerce travels by seaQ&A
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- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:39:02Maritime dependence sets the need for a professional navyQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:39A stronger China and European expansion in AsiaQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:37Why colonial control differed across Asia and AfricaQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:59The navy of a victorious White RussiaQ&A
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- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)32:42British neutrality as Japanese leverageNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:08HMS Beagle without cartography missionsQ&A
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- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:25Why statutory fleet minimums cannot guarantee usable shipsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:11Britain's economic security and its short and long sea routesNotable Point
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- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:33:06Longer-range merchant ships, oil, and payment in dollarsNotable Point
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- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:04:50How far an archaic Greek rowing vessel could travel inlandQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:07:27Why ancient merchants avoided large slave rowing crewsNotable Point
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- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…17:55Trade disruption threatens China's employment bargainNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…20:16A Taiwan conflict would dwarf the Suez blockageNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:12Venezuelan oil tankers after a change of governmentQ&A
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- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!6:24Mercantilism and the trade routes behind empireNotable Point
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- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:17:45Weather and geography limit which foreign warship designs fitNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:08:21Cyclic's assessment of the consequences of losing Pacific primacyQ&A
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- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?41:12Trade economics reshape imperial naval coordinationNotable Point
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- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII1:41Walter Hose preserved the naval serviceChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII3:19British sea power and Canada's trade-defence problemNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII55:07Wartime readiness served a lasting trade needChapter
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- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)8:25Shipping insurance could force long detours around a Taiwan warNotable Point
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- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?3:25Portugal trades to survive beside SpainChapter
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?6:10Population limits favor ports and factoriesChapter
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?9:07A trading empire disciplined by profitabilityNotable Point
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- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?23:36Dutch fortifications and unofficial trade around TaiwanNotable Point
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?28:50Sweden also tested an overseas trading empireNotable Point
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?33:32Resource scarcity drove Scandinavian raiding and settlementNotable Point
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- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold7:01The treasure fleet as a strategic dilemmaNotable Point
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold17:18From moving goods to maritime empireNotable Point
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- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)1:27:31A costly victory redirects English tradeChapter
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- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:15:12How sloops and cruisers created an escalation ladderQ&A
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- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:08:35St Michael's Mount as an imagined 1618 trading baseNotable Point
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- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...23:23Why sea control has to be continually enforcedNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...27:17Trade, access, and Britain's geographic advantageNotable Point
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- Isolationist America: What should Australia, Britain & Canada do if it happens in the next 5 years?13:33Rerouting Canada's trade and energy infrastructureChapter
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- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)2:34:11Catherine II pursues trade, alliances and armed neutralityNotable Point
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- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?3:16Geography decided whether attrition strategy could workNotable Point
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- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style4:43Venice's merchant-officer model and its leadership riskNotable Point
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- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth41:18States underwrote new energy infrastructureNotable Point
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- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 537:18America's World War I shipbuilding surge and postwar retreatChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 538:23Oil endurance challenged Britain's coaling networkNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 541:14Crew costs weakened America's postwar merchant expansionNotable Point
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- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:15:23What would really stop a Suez Canal from being builtQ&A
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- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:28:58Why Varyag's station at Chemulpo does not look like baitQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:23:18A Roman ship canal through SuezQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:26:20When a Roman Suez canal would threaten PersiaQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...4:03:12Suez without American intervention creates too many second-order effectsQ&A
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?5:01Kiel begins as a coastal-trade canalNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?7:41A missing Panama shifts trade away from the Pacific coastNotable Point
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- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?16:23Panama's strategic value outweighs US coastal tradeNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?18:23Small steamers feed the major trading hubsNotable Point
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- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?25:07Cape-route trade elevates South African portsNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?26:19A blocked Suez reveals systemic trade riskNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?33:29Kiel's economic gain is Baltic accessChapter
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?53:00Panama's trade loss reinforces US railwaysNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:32:50Without Goeben, Ottoman neutrality could keep Russia suppliedChapter
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin1:27:42Globalization has a long maritime historyNotable Point
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- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!51:37Britain's Napoleonic limited war targeted trade and incomeNotable Point
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- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:54Ukraine's maritime campaign beyond ship lossesNotable Point
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- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!30:06Silver carrying rewarded Royal Navy captains and crewsNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!48:32Porter's slogans collided with naval power and Valparaiso's tradeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:23:13A slogan war failed to change loyalties in ValparaisoNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:13:38Porter's commerce-raiding claims exceeded the strategic cost imposedNotable Point
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- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:01:11Cruisers serve trade, scouting, and steady employmentQ&A
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign50:57The merchant marine as a naval and economic foundationNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:09:34A mobile phone explains why maritime trade mattersQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!39:40Why Britain retained a large navy after 1945Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:25:20Britain's interest in canals paid for by othersQ&A
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1012:00Debt, Admiralty courts, and convoys sustain Royal Navy powerNotable Point
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1024:47Commercial growth does not automatically create naval credibilityNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?25:07The best-timed naval visit is continuous presenceChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:44:24Escort mass production demonstrated industrial intentChapter
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?27:11Invisible deterrence loses budget argumentsChapter
- Osmaniye: KSS1 S5 Comment Response4:44Trade-route bypass and the Ottoman naval dilemmaChapter
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett24:32Energy change still leaves trade routes to protectNotable Point
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett37:23Trade density explains the value of Gibraltar and other chokepointsChapter
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:18:00Book starting points for Spanish treasure fleetsQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:42:41Australia's dispersed population and dependence on alliesNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?50:14Who pays to police the global commons?Notable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)24:10Merchant power behind the Navigation ActsChapter
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)33:03Ship money and trust in the king's spendingNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)39:14A rejected Anglo-Dutch union and unequal free tradeNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)40:25Civil War coalitions crossed class linesNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)46:47How did Charles I interfere with the wool trade?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)52:18Why cargo-origin rules disrupted multi-stop tradeNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:28:00Dutch treaty leverage before the Glorious RevolutionNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:33:17Could Dutch cargo origins be verified?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:34:13Did the Navigation Acts benefit ports such as King's Lynn?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:01:54Did customs officers have more search power than police?Q&A
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail30:30Why Caribbean trade outweighed the Thirteen ColoniesNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail59:26Why financial power encouraged global naval policingNotable Point
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 88:23Battlecruisers for global trade pressureChapter
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 813:42How battlecruisers could turn trade defence into a conundrumNotable Point
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response12:31Spice trade and the Ottoman-Venetian conflictQ&A
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response13:23Oceanic voyages followed existing trade networksNotable Point
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response14:41Atlantic ships and direct long-distance tradeNotable Point
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response16:08Direct shipping reshaped port hierarchiesNotable Point
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response16:55Ottoman revenue loss and Venetian misdiagnosisNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole9:48Britain's maritime economy supplied naval strengthNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses50:37A more maritime NATO instead of an Army-of-the-Rhine focusNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response19:24Sea-lane security, Lloyd's, and British naval capacityNotable Point
- Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 20231:31:25Naval rivals, ports, and control of a trade routeNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 202321:28Phoenician commerce framed as Carthaginian propagandaNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:10:02Waterborne trade and the vulnerability of coastal shippingChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:15:03Trading colonies and strategic naval stationsChapter
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent0:29Why a continental power still needs a navyChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 8(March 2023)32:41Using fleets for army transport and commerce raidingNotable Point
- Navigation: From Coastal Tracking to Satelite Navigation15:46Prehistoric crossings reveal learned sea routesChapter
- HDMS Danmark: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 213:21Straits tolls and the strategic logic of KielNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)11:42A blockade exposes a brittle trade networkNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)29:12Merchant income and the warships needed to protect itNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)2:32:49When commerce raiding fixes a battle fleet in placeNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)3:52:37Questioning refusals of profitable trade agreementsNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword21:01Treasure fleets as diplomatic powerQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)43:13Attacking Spanish trade while expanding British commerceChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)46:15Ceylon as a base on the spice routeNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)46:47Turning North American fur production into a trade monopolyNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:30:43Specialising Boston and New York's port infrastructureNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:32:34Targeting Mexico for trade access and another shipyardNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)2:40:19Opening war by intercepting Spanish commerceChapter
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/217:19British shipping replaces Spanish commercial powerNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:13:57The Admiral class was designed for the next commerce warChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:33:18The overlooked submarine war in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:16:17How piracy endangered English trade with the Mughal EmpireChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:16:17How William III's accession weakened the East India Company's positionNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:19:23How domestic politics narrowed English strategy before 1701Notable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:21:33How Louis XIV provoked another coalition over the Spanish successionNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:23:00Why French silver convoys needed large escort squadronsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)42:57Trade routes as the foundation of fleet expansionNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)1:48:45Newfoundland, Liverpool, and the North Atlantic trade networkNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)2:46:02Breaking a blockade to restore the British economyChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)13:33Trade stations and maritime revenueNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)1:27:49Blockade coverage and trade resilienceQ&A
- Blockade!!7:43Distant blockade against global supply chainsNotable Point
- Blockade!!14:00Why Napoleon's Continental System could not police the seaNotable Point
- Blockade!!20:07Three ways blockade runners evade interceptionNotable Point
- Blockade!!48:38A blockaded fleet drains its own naval baseNotable Point
- Ship Design21:25Uluburun wreck and outrigger buoyancyChapter
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia34:17Lady Penrhyn, civilian logistics, and return tradeChapter
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia55:11Charlotte: missing mate, convict memory, and later naval serviceChapter
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?9:59Why German planning keeps the Netherlands neutralNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers9:35Armoured corvettes and Russia's cruiser problemChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction1:52Why Venice's trade empire matteredChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction2:57Oceanic exploration as a search for Asian trade routesNotable Point
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction25:22Venetian trade, Byzantium, and Ottoman revenueNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:54:24Did Gorshkov's economic arguments imply a commerce-war strategy?Notable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars18:58Phoenician trade routes grew into support citiesChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars25:15Portuguese expansion followed the price of trade routesChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars31:27British maritime reach accumulated around support stationsChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.56:36Portuguese routes and the economics of direct tradeChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:01:04When colonial commerce becomes naval coercionNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:23:43South America and British informal empireNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-657:44Baltic occupation, new bases, and the Soviet sea-access problemChapter
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:25:11Why merchant crews were paid off and rehired in portQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)33:56Japan chooses commerce control over independent raidingChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers3:21Why the Royal Navy treated Sverdlov as an ocean-raider threatChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:26:40A raider could damage the global economy without sinking every merchant shipChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History14:50Swally exposes Portuguese complacency in IndiaNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 6424:20Swally turns a small naval action into commercial accessChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations54:13Aircraft ferrying and trade protection share one hullChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p10:17Industrial change reshapes the cruiserChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p12:07Global trade predates the industrial cruiserNotable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:36:03Singapore connected Indian and Australian maritime industryNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare50:18The China Fleet carries immense value with one brig for escortChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:46:07Why global war would rapidly disrupt merchant shippingQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)14:50Endurance and commerce warfare define the cruiserNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)57:30Balanced bargaining and visible Japanese constructionChapter
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)10:11Britain cannot choose between its sword and shieldNotable Point
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy18:30Why survey ships matter to trade and naval operationsChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy35:25Undersea cables turn microseconds into financial advantageNotable Point
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN18:33Maritime chokepoints turn distant disruptions into national riskNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN39:12Australia's uranium paradox and trade exposureChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN48:21Canada's trade strength and Arctic security exposureChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN55:32New Zealand's large maritime obligationsChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:02:22Why British security extends along global trade routesChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:15:13Why defence plans must outlast today's intentionsNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:57:31Why cooperation does not mean a single Commonwealth fleetQ&A
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol21:27Rome's navy before its wartime expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:19:11Caribbean prizes versus Chinese pirate organizationQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:26:23Why pirates cultivated terrifying reputationsQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:43:13Why reluctant British imperial expansion kept growingNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:49:27Sea power made Britain's empire sustainableNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:24:06Open trade gives Britain financial enduranceNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:18:24A Pacific-first war could reshape the CommonwealthNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol29:34French Levant trade and Ionian strategyNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)37:27World War I's maritime lesson shaped global fleet rolesNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion41:43Sea control can remove the option to retreatNotable Point
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)30:41Sea control matters when it enables actionNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:23:26How wartime logistics exposed India's infrastructure weaknessNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)4:47The spice trade as a strategic systemChapter
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)39:50A commercial coalition against PortugalChapter
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)50:33Mercantilism and investment meet on the trade routeNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)25:40Human geography creates cruiser demandChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:40:18Why does Britain still need the cruising role?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:52:02Is the China-US naval buildup another Anglo-German race?Q&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:58:22How the blockade cut Germany out of global tradeQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...8:15Indian Ocean trade beyond the familiar empiresChapter
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...11:31Tin, sea routes, and Bronze Age exchangeNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...13:58Trade routes as a reason to go to seaNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...18:04Trade dependence, outsourced skills, and service-economy limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 63: Trailer0:00Corbett’s Drake books as lessons in national strategyChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:54:29Can the Belt and Road Initiative bypass sea power?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:55:28Why the surface raider is not obsoleteQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:21Commercial rivalry and a clash of strategic assumptionsChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)37:26Five admiralties, local interests, and convoy moneyChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:08:15Leghorn turns fleet dispersion into a Mediterranean defeatChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:20:01South Korea's case for a light carrierQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)23:53Colonial railways feeding maritime extractionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:19:42The Hanseatic League as a maritime deterrentQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:08:39Why Japanese submarines struggled to reach Allied tradeQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live3:11:37Could Japanese submarines slow American industry at sea?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:31:54Why could the Royal Navy not simply crush the American Revolution?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:45:48Why did governments create chartered monopolies?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.5:45Teak construction and specialized East India routesNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.8:54Could armament or crews explain a supposed port restriction?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.9:42European East India companies shared a recognizable merchant typeNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.11:06Why states granted East India monopoliesChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.25:24Cargo decks made East Indiamen convertible warshipsNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.42:25From the Dutch fluyt to larger East IndiamenNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.51:07Why can Arniston's voyages be followed in detail?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.55:06Lascar crews were concentrated on regional Asian routesNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:02:31Were East Indiamen's timbers as thick as a warship's?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:03:57Country ships filled the smaller regional tradeQ&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:09:53Blackwall frigates succeeded the classic East IndiamenChapter
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:35:06Steam arrived as the company's political role changedQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune12:29Convoy protection before prize chasingNotable Point
- Blockade37:52Trade dependence determines how quickly blockade bitesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191416:02British sea power beyond a German duelChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?6:40Why navies seek sea control in the first placeQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:50:15When a warship becomes a cargo carrierQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19076:27Declared purpose shapes naval threat perceptionNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190715:07Proximity and fleet range sharpen the British-German rivalryNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 19065:40Why Fisher followed one Dreadnought with three battlecruisersChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 19067:42Corbett, commerce war, and Britain's coaling networkChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 190613:03Why British battlecruisers threatened rival commerceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 190614:53Trade dependence behind the South American dreadnought raceChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval22:46High returns balanced the exceptional risk of medieval shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval52:38English wool and French wine illustrate triangular tradeNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval1:20:36Middle Eastern trade routes offer an economic interpretation of the CrusadesChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval2:13:50Maritime trade carried ideas as well as goodsChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval2:23:34How Asian knowledge reached Europe, and the literacy objectionNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval3:15:43Coastal raiding turned the Channel into a war zoneNotable Point
- Four Random Books 32: Medieval6:23Acre, Venice, and the maritime foundations of crusader powerChapter
- Four Random Books 32: Medieval9:30The Mediterranean as a framework for medieval historyChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:03:52Japanese dependence on Korean agricultureQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:03:40Brazil's strategic case for dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class11:26Maritime trade links slavery, naval funding, and suppressionNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 16965:48Why Dogger Bank repeatedly became a naval battlegroundChapter
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:54:38Indonesian unity, shipping routes and separatismChapter
- Bruships 36: International Relations2:41:24Cable on independent foreign policy and seaborne tradeNotable Point
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)55:50Guadeloupe's loss weakens French trade and war financeChapter
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)59:40Sugar and cocoa turn sea control into economic powerNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 18:24Hong Kong's trade network creates rich targets for piracyChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 113:19Steamships professionalize piracy around Hong KongNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Part 221:38The Royal Navy underwrote London’s global tradeNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East9:05Why piracy clustered around Hong Kong and SingaporeNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East10:24The treaty basis for Royal Navy piracy patrolsChapter
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:05:39Why navies police some pirate regions more heavilyQ&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:17:26Shipping tonnage and modern cruisers made presence visibleNotable Point
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War15:52Why the Far East cruiser plan unraveledChapter
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War16:40Maritime trade creates naval vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:27Why Britain needed many cruisersChapter
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"41:43Why a distant blockade favored BritainNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"1:21:11Why the Union still needed overseas trade in 1861Q&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:10:34Independence exposed American shipping to Barbary piracyNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:33:09Strait disruption could serve Iran's rivalry with Saudi ArabiaQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:49:36Ship speed as long-range risk managementNotable Point
- The World According to the Royal Navy of the 1930s - 4 minutes0:08Trade routes define the Royal Navy's 1930s worldChapter
- The World According to the Royal Navy of the 1930s - 4 minutes1:16Why the Royal Navy deployed where trade flowedNotable Point
- The World According to the Royal Navy of the 1930s - 4 minutes1:59Why Singapore, rather than Hong Kong, fit the trade mapNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:41:34Zheng He and established maritime networksQ&A
- 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 - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 445:56Resources, fuel, and a war economyNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 437:18Commerce war with submarines and cruisersChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 212:06Portuguese galleons supported oceanic trade and empireNotable Point
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy24:35Trade routes shape the geography of naval visitsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians12:30Zheng He beyond the peaceful-explorer mythChapter
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians17:50Treasure ships, logistics, and trade-route securityNotable Point
- Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal3:00British interests and global commitmentsChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 311:14Venice builds maritime security around the ArsenalChapter
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers8:18Global trade routes and Washington Treaty constraintsChapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video0:04Trade routes define Graf Spee's operating spaceChapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video2:53Imperial shipping sustained Britain's war effortChapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video5:13How one German aircraft carrier might have changed commerce raidingNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)5:12Spanish Civil War duties and Ashanti diplomacyChapter