Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Military Innovation

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:05:46Unusual inventions that worked during the warQ&A
  2. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:43:27Why early weapon adopters also develop countermeasuresQ&A
  3. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:18:01How fair is the claim that most Churchill ideas were unworkable?Q&A
  4. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:19:14Why support for unrotated projectiles survived failureQ&A
  5. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:28:58Who proposed the rocket-assisted catapult idea?Q&A
  6. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:29:20Turing, direct appeals and loyalty to ChurchillNotable Point
  7. Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:35:39New technology changes warfare without erasing its problemsQ&A
  8. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    2:31:26Why naval control accelerates carrier aviationNotable Point
  9. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    2:35:44How delaying war changes technological developmentNotable Point
  10. Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?
    39:21New technology still needs an institutional sponsorNotable Point
  11. Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?
    19:00Type 83 and the danger of revolutionary promisesNotable Point
  12. Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare
    28:29Future warfare will fuse current technology with older lessonsNotable Point
  13. Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare
    55:36Eighteen bombers versus a battleship of the same vintageNotable Point
  14. Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare
    57:05Defence marketing rewards new wonder-weapon narrativesNotable Point
  15. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    2:51RNAS armored cars turned field experience into procurementChapter
  16. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    3:43Mining companies recruited expertise already at the frontNotable Point
  17. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    45:09Rolling barrages and tanks answered the killing zoneChapter
  18. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    47:35Several attacks tested where an assault could succeedNotable Point
  19. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    50:35Flight became an air-control system within a generationNotable Point
  20. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:15:01Can a field invention be assigned a single nationality?Q&A
  21. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:43:37The battlefield of 1918 demanded different command skillsChapter
  22. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    2:13:12Zeppelin defence challenged the bomber mythNotable Point
  23. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:03:34Why officers need naval history and public communicationChapter
  24. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:08:40When technical promotion does not produce strategic leadersNotable Point
  25. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:50:55Separating enduring drone lessons from wartime conditionsQ&A
  26. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    48:12German technology sparks a naval construction boomChapter
  27. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    55:08German armor technique and fire-control choicesNotable Point
  28. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    56:51Why larger French and Italian fleets matter globallyNotable Point
  29. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    1:09:20German humiliation and fears of Japanese design fusionNotable Point
  30. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    1:15:20The unknown 1923 capital-ship generationNotable Point
  31. Torpex: A Short History of it's History...
    26:20War interrupts a different kind of naval programNotable Point
  32. Torpex: A Short History of it's History...
    31:19War accelerates implementation more than inventionNotable Point
  33. Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw/Westland Whirlwind: Ploughing the Waves for the Modern Naval Helicopter
    18:54Airmobile artillery solves an old targeting problemNotable Point
  34. Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s
    3:01How target drones pointed toward remote strike weaponsNotable Point
  35. Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s
    14:04Why war cut promising drone experiments shortNotable Point
  36. Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)
    1:10:57Information networks accelerated Ukrainian adaptationChapter
  37. Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)
    1:12:29Russia’s 2014 success helped Ukraine adapt for 2022Notable Point
  38. Brewster Buffalo: An Aircraft let down by it's Company...
    55:20The lost third line of US Navy fightersNotable Point
  39. A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?
    15:33Institutional risk favors an evolutionary test carrierNotable Point
  40. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:05:48When an absurd-looking wartime idea still workedQ&A
  41. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    1:57:42Why future obsolescence does not justify retiring useful ships nowNotable Point
  42. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    2:24:48Knowledge, fear and permission to innovate in Warhammer 40,000Q&A
  43. Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview
    6:20How countermeasures can erode a cheap weapon's advantageNotable Point
  44. Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 1
    2:48Hawker inherited Sopwith's engineers after a management failureNotable Point
  45. Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 1
    15:50Forgotten innovation and the trap of technological hindsightNotable Point
  46. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:28:02Roman military adaptation and Byzantine political infightingNotable Point
  47. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    3:00:13Defence systems manage risk rather than become invulnerableNotable Point
  48. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    7:01Why the United States moved past barrage rocketsChapter
  49. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    8:28Operation Bumblebee and sideways leadershipNotable Point
  50. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    20:26War turns research into usable capabilityNotable Point
  51. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    26:57Guided weapons depend on people and precision industryNotable Point
  52. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    54:42Schräge Musik created only a temporary advantageNotable Point
  53. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    55:14Typhoon needs mass production to matterNotable Point
  54. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    1:16:51Could old rocket ideas inform counter-UAV defence?Notable Point
  55. What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier
    1:38:39Why Britain and America gain most from the delayChapter
  56. What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier
    1:39:57What a five-year delay to World War I reveals about carriersNotable Point
  57. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!
    1:28:28An early German snorkel advantage would invite an early counterQ&A
  58. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!
    1:45:01Wire-guided torpedoes and the countermeasure cycleQ&A
  59. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    15:00Ernst Heinkel's speed-and-reliability design ethosNotable Point
  60. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    30:45Why technically minded navies suited Hansa-BrandenburgNotable Point
  61. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    46:26Blockade denial kept late-war prototypes fundedNotable Point
  62. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    50:23W.27 and W.32 airframe and engine trialsChapter
  63. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    1:02:56Turning the W.12 into a monoplaneChapter
  64. Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 1
    1:21:57German aviation's competing suppliers and centralized controlNotable Point
  65. 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)
    15:07Interwar aviation procurement balanced innovation against wartime riskNotable Point
  66. Type 96 Mitsubishi A5M "Claude": Genesis Fighter for the WWII IJN Air Service
    35:29International aviation exchange was not simple copyingNotable Point
  67. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    0:54When new military technology comes of ageChapter
  68. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    3:27War refines technologies already in developmentNotable Point
  69. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    18:44Parallel innovation is not automatically imitationNotable Point
  70. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    29:53Italian airpower vision versus payload realityNotable Point
  71. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    31:49Infrastructure and the plateaus of innovationNotable Point
  72. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    52:04Why failed military technologies disappear from historyNotable Point
  73. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    55:11Integration turns technology into operational powerNotable Point
  74. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    58:13The Bristol Scout and aviation's rapid wartime changeChapter
  75. What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?
    21:59Bomber doctrine crowds out rotorcraftNotable Point
  76. What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?
    1:19:47Axis adoption brings helicopters into prewar combatNotable Point
  77. What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?
    1:22:26Procurement risk explains the missed helicopter revolutionChapter
  78. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    34:55Interwar aviation choices without hindsightNotable Point
  79. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    1:33:14Interwar roots of wartime naval innovationChapter
  80. Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 1960
    36:11Mature designs explain cannon reliability and the Fairey SwordfishNotable Point
  81. The Landship Story
    0:26Why the Landship Committee could produce resultsNotable Point
  82. The Landship Story
    4:37The myth of technologically stagnant naval leadersNotable Point
  83. The Landship Story
    12:50Why Hankey took the proposal to ChurchillNotable Point
  84. The Landship Story
    17:23Why earlier tank ideas did not become working machinesNotable Point
  85. The Landship Story
    28:58R. E. B. Crompton completes the Landship Committee teamNotable Point
  86. USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 6
    8:28Urgency made Monitor an experimental warshipNotable Point
  87. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    27:37Dreyer and Pollen took different routes into fire controlNotable Point
  88. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    2:20French innovation versus carrier weaknessChapter
  89. What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?
    56:12Better fleet air defence invites a German countermeasureNotable Point
  90. Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?
    2:04:18Better fleet AA would provoke enemy adaptationNotable Point
  91. Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?
    2:43:13Wartime production freezes earlier development choicesChapter
  92. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    55:42Unproven weapons depend on the enemy behaving as expectedNotable Point
  93. Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches
    53:08Walter Kerr made common entry an evidence-led reformChapter
  94. Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches
    1:53:14Training reform changes a navy for generationsChapter
  95. Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments
    35:13How war-game umpires should handle unconventional plansQ&A
  96. The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less
    1:25Was the Jeune Ecole an early offset doctrine?Chapter
  97. The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less
    20:04Three failures of wonder-weapon thinkingChapter
  98. The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less
    22:47Technical expertise is not a complete theory of warNotable Point
  99. Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)
    1:03:13Why militaries cannot bet the state on unproven technologyNotable Point
  100. Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)
    9:36Why wonder weapons do not end naval judgmentNotable Point
  101. Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)
    34:20When a torpedo attack becomes too valuable to riskNotable Point
  102. Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    21:22Drone warfare repeats early aviation's countermeasure cycleNotable Point
  103. The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)
    15:45British armoured warfare and the engine revolutionNotable Point
  104. Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)
    15:56Slow adaptation after the Magog WarNotable Point
  105. Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)
    13:15Germany's mine-warfare blind spotNotable Point
  106. Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)
    47:33The evidence for mines already existedNotable Point
  107. The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)
    1:27:18Why established powers fall behindNotable Point
  108. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    32:25Comparing military innovation across European armiesQ&A
  109. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions
    47:04Who gets credit for inventing the tank?Q&A
  110. Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)
    28:03Did designer defections leave the Empire stuck with the TIE?Q&A
  111. Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail
    3:40:47Radar development depended on how institutions handled rivalryNotable Point
  112. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    3:45:27Tank-busting aircraft ideas predated the Second World WarNotable Point
  113. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    30:52Why Avalon's full-deck launch should influence later carriersNotable Point
  114. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    1:15:26Why France and Germany dispute future combat-aircraft workshareQ&A
  115. Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s
    5:01Interwar modernization was a problem of immature technologyChapter
  116. Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s
    13:32Comparative innovation and Britain's landing craftChapter
  117. Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s
    15:36Why broad surveys and specialist studies belong togetherNotable Point
  118. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction
    20:14HMS Hibernia shows the institutional cost of aviation trialsNotable Point
  119. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction
    27:04The Tondern raid measures the speed of carrier learningNotable Point
  120. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction
    28:08Carrier development as an engineering moonshotNotable Point
  121. Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/2
    0:14Using science fiction to test naval ideasChapter
  122. Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/2
    11:26Training data, blind spots, and novel threatsNotable Point
  123. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    37:18From Star Wars defence to the airborne laserNotable Point
  124. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    1:04:43Science fiction as a prompt, not a blueprintChapter
  125. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    1:07:18M247 Sergeant York and sensor-integration failureNotable Point
  126. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    6:48Cannon fighters and wartime learningNotable Point
  127. BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 2
    36:14Malta's layered offensive and coordination problemChapter
  128. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    40:35Why militaries choose particular small armsNotable Point