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Military Intelligence

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  1. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    21:24Abwehr agents and expectations of failureNotable Point
  2. Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?
    38:07How Britain could anticipate the tidal windowNotable Point
  3. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    30:19Divided command and contradictory signals from JapanChapter
  4. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:55:37Why trawlers and dredgers can hide infiltratorsNotable Point
  5. Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:54:41Covert airfield warning instead of mainland attackQ&A
  6. The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?
    4:56:02Intelligence reorganization leaves staffing and capacity questions unansweredNotable Point
  7. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:44:54Judging wartime commanders without modern intelligenceNotable Point
  8. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    22:48Could Germany or Japan hide a 1945 nuclear test?Q&A
  9. Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:06:30Soviet intelligence offered to Argentina before the Falklands WarNotable Point
  10. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    1:02:33Groupthink kept collapse warnings outside the planning consensusQ&A
  11. Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?
    1:02:02U-21's internment and the warnings of German probingNotable Point
  12. Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?
    1:14:18Laake and Fleischer made different assumptions about government intelligenceNotable Point
  13. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…
    1:00:51Detailed intelligence can make an attacker overconfidentNotable Point
  14. Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?
    0:26Putting Enigma back into the Allied war effortQ&A
  15. Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi
    1:10:51Shadow of Mars and the intelligence risk of a stay-behind officerChapter
  16. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    1:23:51Why public spy cases do not prove easy infiltrationQ&A
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    8:50:19Why perfect intelligence cannot supply missing forcesQ&A
  18. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    4:12:25How advance warning could turn Pearl Harbor into a carrier ambushQ&A
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    3:08:08Accounts of collecting Cold War tanks by landing craftNotable Point
  20. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    5:05:05Imagining Haig in Montgomery's campaignsQ&A
  21. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    37:27Intelligence failure can begin with the wrong assumptionsQ&A
  22. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:31:14Surrender changes a combatant's legal statusNotable Point
  23. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:09:36How prejudice distorted assessments of the ZeroNotable Point
  24. The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver
    0:01Why surprise fails at seaChapter
  25. The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver
    17:01Hosier's intelligence-led Porto Bello blockadeChapter
  26. The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver
    43:40San Juan needed concentrated forceNotable Point
  27. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    28:54Soviet atomic intelligence and British disinformationQ&A
  28. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:42:07Rommel secretly aids the Allies in 1942Q&A
  29. OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!
    21:59Ammunition ranges and the problem of public specificationsChapter
  30. Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?
    39:30Axis coordination may prevent an invasionChapter
  31. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    34:25A peacetime commander should keep asking questionsNotable Point
  32. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    53:35Pearl Harbor as negligence rather than conspiracyChapter
  33. Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)
    1:16:39Social media widened the information battlefieldChapter
  34. George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...
    46:20An intelligence network disguised as extraordinary luckNotable Point
  35. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    26:40Axis intelligence and changing opponentsNotable Point
  36. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:27:27What Germany knew about D-DayQ&A
  37. Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership
    29:31Why naval intelligence was not a general staffNotable Point
  38. General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!
    48:00Actors, observation, and wartime intelligence trainingNotable Point
  39. What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?
    40:40Fifth-column fears versus identified intelligence threatsNotable Point
  40. Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...
    19:14The specialists missing from a fleet readiness decisionChapter
  41. Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...
    34:47Why strategic intelligence should reach admirals through their staffsChapter
  42. A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?
    28:12Caspian secrecy and the intelligence proof problemNotable Point
  43. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    1:07:53What military operation names were meant to doQ&A
  44. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    2:19:38British teams collecting German military equipment in 1945Notable Point
  45. Flotillas of the Danube
    59:40Why Allied target analysis had to recognize Europe's canalsNotable Point
  46. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    10:30Kimmel's scouting-force background and carrier-raid plansChapter
  47. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    12:23Kimmel's possible return under a subordinate carrier commandNotable Point
  48. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    20:41How American assumptions ceded the initiativeNotable Point
  49. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    48:48How Kimmel could secure Army and Navy readiness in HawaiiNotable Point
  50. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    1:04:46A public warning removes Pearl Harbor's essential surpriseChapter
  51. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    6:08:03Why electronic warfare depends on secret threat librariesQ&A
  52. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    2:08:41Suspected spies and secret wartime emissariesQ&A
  53. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    28:13What IJA-IJN cooperation could and could not changeQ&A
  54. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    1:24:05Knoxville deception blinded Bragg to Sherman's real objectiveNotable Point
  55. Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!
    37:49I-400 grew from two decades of submarine-aircraft experienceNotable Point
  56. Death from Above? Germany develops the Fritz X Early - Patreon Premier
    18:31Guided-weapon intelligence reaches British ship design earlyNotable Point
  57. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    2:13:01Zero intelligence and Allied aircraft procurementQ&A
  58. Carry on Invading Britain: The Battle of Fishguard (1797)
    39:57Knox abandons Fishguard after overestimating the enemyChapter
  59. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    18:18Kimmel, Richardson, and the origin of the counterraidsChapter
  60. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:03:23Canaris removes Hitler in 1934Q&A
  61. If not Pearl Harbour?
    2:12:50Did Kimmel simply distrust the radar warning?Q&A
  62. Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?
    50:44Why visible records can understate interwar cryptanalysisNotable Point
  63. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    1:45:20Speculatores, exploratores, and Roman special operationsNotable Point
  64. HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 3
    55:14Mistaken intelligence puts Warspite behind a Sydney attackNotable Point
  65. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)
    2:37:59Wellesley's emphasis on intelligence, engineering, and logisticsNotable Point
  66. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    2:29:17German assumptions about Chain Home radarNotable Point
  67. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    3:32:18An exaggerated Condor bomb load in wartime intelligenceNotable Point
  68. Bombardment of Ellwood
    2:47:40Could a telephone cable explain Kiska's radio silence?Q&A
  69. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    3:04:59Navarino was decisive without ending the warChapter
  70. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:28:01Did Britain underestimate Japan?Q&A
  71. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    1:26:08The 'Message to Garcia' myth and the real liaison missionNotable Point
  72. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:50:51The myth and reality of the message to GarcíaNotable Point
  73. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    1:58:35Why the Germans should have searched CampbeltownQ&A
  74. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:20:24Plan as though the opponent is capableNotable Point
  75. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    21:11Russia used winter, information, and Finnish disillusionmentChapter
  76. Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)
    41:47Two plans, one vulnerable Finnish frontierChapter
  77. Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)
    2:37:36Maps as royal gifts and military intelligenceNotable Point
  78. Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions
    3:40:30Why a nearby threat can sharpen counterintelligenceQ&A
  79. Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events
    1:25:48Grant's telegram and the question of surpriseNotable Point
  80. Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)
    2:09:27The hindsight test for command responsibilityNotable Point
  81. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)
    1:12:32Saving Singapore's papers would not conceal Malaya's defensesQ&A
  82. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    3:47:40Why Allied intelligence could not simply trust CanarisQ&A
  83. Sherman's March to the Sea
    30:00Grant and Sherman: deciding battles before battleChapter
  84. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    29:02A strategic plan built on incomplete informationNotable Point
  85. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    43:34Promotion, intelligence failure, and an unwinnable warChapter
  86. A Book or Two to Review (31):
    18:53Canaris amid atrocity reports and military collapseChapter
  87. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    0:13Why Wilhelm Canaris sits outside the seriesChapter
  88. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    2:19Canaris and Heydrich's wary rivalryNotable Point
  89. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    4:47Canaris without a saintly legendNotable Point
  90. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    5:50MI6 contacts and peace terms without HitlerNotable Point
  91. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    6:46The intelligence foundation beneath BlitzkriegNotable Point
  92. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    17:12Taking over the German intelligence serviceChapter
  93. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris
    19:14How the Abwehr concealed intentions and shaped enemy beliefsChapter
  94. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder
    19:39Personal discipline, lasting enemies, and Wilhelm CanarisNotable Point
  95. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    2:43:33Reading Chinese naval technology claims cautiouslyNotable Point
  96. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    15:28McClellan's missed opportunity at AntietamNotable Point
  97. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions
    1:17:15Gallipoli reconnaissance, forts, and minefieldsQ&A
  98. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p4/4 - Gallipoli
    6:45Four conditions for a better GallipoliNotable Point
  99. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    24:43What was Gibraltar's Second World War stay-behind plan?Q&A
  100. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    46:04How did eighteenth-century states advertise military capability?Q&A
  101. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    2:53:13Why combat damage claims should be discountedQ&A
  102. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    3:19:48Why Warspite's return surprised German observersQ&A
  103. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:01:51Was Russia likely behind the Czech ammunition-depot explosion?Q&A
  104. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    41:24Captured plans do not defeat prepared defensesNotable Point
  105. Four Random Books 30 - Courage
    1:36IED disposal becomes countermeasure intelligenceNotable Point
  106. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya
    7:02The Crete attack window shows how intelligence estimates workNotable Point
  107. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    28:11Deserter intelligence and an ammunition-dump raid before the Eleventh IsonzoNotable Point
  108. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    3:06:46Fighter numbers and combat experience in a disputed Battle of Britain argumentNotable Point
  109. The Great White Fleet
    37:13Why mutual deterrence restrained chemical warfare in World War IIQ&A
  110. Four Random Books 20: Intelligence
    13:55Mithridates learns disguise and military intelligenceChapter
  111. Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...
    1:51:31Decoy attacks and the shortage of trusted soldiersNotable Point
  112. Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...
    2:09:55Expensive torpedoes reveal unusually equipped raidersNotable Point
  113. Four Random Books 17: General Ship & Total War
    7:02Chemical and biological warfare fears around StalingradNotable Point
  114. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    58:06Similar aircraft shapes do not prove copyingNotable Point
  115. 1940 Norway Campaign Part 4 of 5: After 1940 - Quislings & Commandos
    16:47SOE reconnaissance watched German forces and shipsNotable Point
  116. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:05:37Cromwell's Western Design and the quality of adviceNotable Point
  117. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:31:10Was Frantisek Moravec aboard HMS Edinburgh?Q&A
  118. WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol
    1:24:11Intelligence makes the colonial campaign quickNotable Point
  119. Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean
    1:04:32Submarines as intelligence and force-diversion toolsNotable Point
  120. Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:00:53Why old electronic-warfare work can remain secretQ&A
  121. Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:24:31A case for delaying sea-mine productionQ&A
  122. Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A
    39:56Why bad information survives in authoritarian commandsNotable Point