Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Military Strategy

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  1. Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:32:53Alpha Legion counterplots and the loss of strategic purposeNotable Point
  2. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:58:28The risks of assuming perfect weapons performance and wars of choiceNotable Point
  3. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:48:56Sauron should concentrate force against one enemy at a timeQ&A
  4. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:41:14Why a prolonged war favored the AlliesNotable Point
  5. Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:01:37An interpretation of US-Iran deterrence signalsNotable Point
  6. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:53:14William versus Hardrada after an early Norman invasionQ&A
  7. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:34:44The Iran strike and regional buildup discussed in March 2026Q&A
  8. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:14:26Liberation assumptions and the invasion of CanadaNotable Point
  9. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    14:04Why the open war after Crimea was the strategic mistakeQ&A
  10. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    51:22What kind of Qing land victory could end the Sino-French WarQ&A
  11. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    4:49:28Why an opponent must respond in a counterfactualNotable Point
  12. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    5:54:59Why battlefield success does not by itself define victoryQ&A
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    11:20:38The proposed relationship between conventional and nuclear deterrenceNotable Point
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    11:32:54The dispute over retaining cavalry for a Western Front breakthroughNotable Point
  15. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    5:21:25Why destroying a system can defeat the purpose of taking itQ&A
  16. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    7:36:35The risk of assuming governments can choose when war beginsNotable Point
  17. Historians: doomed to watch others repeat mistakes?
    0:00Technology changes methods, not judgmentNotable Point
  18. Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?
    29:21Offensive war concealed Sweden's defensive weaknessNotable Point
  19. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:36:24The Alamo as delay and command failureNotable Point
  20. Battle of Dornach(1499)
    21:18Border containment defeats a raid-financed warNotable Point
  21. How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?
    2:21:54Why failed short wars can become long warsQ&A
  22. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    28:04How army briefings shaped the blue-water debateNotable Point
  23. Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned
    1:45:58The land-and-rail alternative to a doomed fleetNotable Point
  24. Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:54:18Vietnam and the distinction between military and political outcomesNotable Point
  25. Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:55:05A May 2025 assessment of the costs of the Ukraine warNotable Point
  26. Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?
    36:29The Atlantic Wall exposed a problem of priorities as well as fortificationNotable Point
  27. Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?
    1:01:10Japan exploited Allied resource commitments as well as speedNotable Point
  28. Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?
    1:26:29Judge defensive systems by the time and choices they createChapter
  29. Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?
    1:26:29Napoleon's reaction forces treated the sea too much like landNotable Point
  30. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    31:48Defending Earth before Space Battleship Yamato's warQ&A
  31. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    35:31Keeping UNCF industry alive in concealed asteroid basesNotable Point
  32. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:16:52Why the Jabiim campaign cannot bypass the fortified systemQ&A
  33. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:47:16The postwar order after a successful UNCF defenceQ&A
  34. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 2024
    3:27:57Jackie Fisher: anti-war deterrent, not a hesitant wartime commanderQ&A
  35. A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    50:39Choose an advance that leaves rival factions fighting each otherNotable Point
  36. A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    35:45Choosing fronts in HOI4's German civil warNotable Point
  37. A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    1:01:31Offensive penalties and attrition in HOI4's Spanish Civil WarNotable Point
  38. A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    1:25:02Where to build before Sweden's in-game civil warNotable Point
  39. A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    1:35:57Why intervene in Poland before helping Spain?Q&A
  40. WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting
    27:29Roman frontier forts as an analogy for Dover's tripwiresNotable Point
  41. Battle of Chattanooga(1863)
    12:32McClellan imagined a limited war ending in negotiationNotable Point
  42. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    16:01McClellan misread the Civil War as a limited bargaining contestNotable Point
  43. Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'
    1:28:46Why more cruiser firepower does not solve GallipoliNotable Point
  44. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    1:14:25Strategy history preserves lessons paid for in bloodNotable Point
  45. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:20:49Overwhelming power can still be restrained by public opinionNotable Point
  46. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    2:12:23Why successful deterrence is hard to proveNotable Point
  47. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    22:31Canada was not waiting to be liberatedNotable Point
  48. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    2:50:55What bombing can degrade without forcing immediate complianceNotable Point
  49. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    18:55Suez was won tactically and lost at the political center of gravityQ&A
  50. Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids
    2:32:15Can overwhelming firepower preserve peace?Q&A
  51. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:01:13The risk of bypassing Luzon and the PhilippinesQ&A
  52. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:32:17Why nuclear weapons deter without guaranteeing victoryNotable Point
  53. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    2:42:43Book watch point: Strategy, Context and AdaptationChapter
  54. USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 6
    15:23Why Virginia was lost when Norfolk fellNotable Point
  55. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    4:35Why the campaign makes Italy an economic objectiveChapter
  56. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    13:46Securing North Africa while the main war is in ItalyNotable Point
  57. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    22:40Holding Rome consumes the manoeuvre forceNotable Point
  58. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    38:41War turns a trade road into lost revenueNotable Point
  59. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    1:57:09Taking Rome creates a larger consolidation problemChapter
  60. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    2:46:41Why Capua comes before the remaining 41 regionsNotable Point
  61. Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 2023
    1:06:16Concentrate for battle, maneuver while dispersedNotable Point
  62. Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 2023
    2:04:00Recoverability matters as much as winning a battleNotable Point
  63. Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 2023
    2:45:33Defensive success does not guarantee strategic progressNotable Point
  64. Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 2023
    3:15:40Secure Italy, remove Rome, then turn eastNotable Point
  65. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    9:27Carthage's strength is offset by strategic exposureChapter
  66. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    27:22Why Carthage needs both a sword and a shieldChapter
  67. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    54:32Multiple breaches divide the siege defendersNotable Point
  68. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    1:25:11Reading the line reveals where to seek local cavalry superiorityNotable Point
  69. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    1:28:11A walled town anchors the flank that cavalry cannot coverNotable Point
  70. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    1:39:51Night battles isolate enemy armies in the campaignNotable Point
  71. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    1:47:44Defeat reinforcements before they can organizeChapter
  72. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    2:37:20A siege draws Roman armies into open battleChapter
  73. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    3:02:30Infantry fixes the enemy while cavalry turns the flankNotable Point
  74. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    3:08:31When do town militia signal desperation?Q&A
  75. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    3:25:17Retreat fails when reinforcements block the exitNotable Point
  76. Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 2023
    3:48:07When the game engine punishes realistic siege tacticsNotable Point
  77. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)
    1:55:37Could the Alamo have been won by holding out?Q&A
  78. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 8(March 2023)
    38:54Bypassing major armies while fixed threats consume attentionNotable Point
  79. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 8(March 2023)
    2:27:24Pinning armies while rebuilding the next defenceNotable Point
  80. HDMS Danmark: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 2
    22:15Militia and delay in Denmark's outnumbered 1864 warNotable Point
  81. Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay
    0:48Grand strategy beyond military forceChapter
  82. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)
    1:14:48Why tactical control matters in a historical strategy gameNotable Point
  83. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)
    1:31:58Targeting recruitment centers in a continental campaignNotable Point
  84. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)
    2:11:56When speed justified a costly assaultQ&A
  85. Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build
    3:32:30First-rate forces depend on the comparisonNotable Point
  86. Sverdlov Class: Comment Response
    17:10Why winning skirmishes can still lose a warNotable Point
  87. Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...
    1:51:35A philosophically minded introduction to strategyQ&A
  88. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    1:05:01Why an invasion plan cannot assume defenders will surrenderNotable Point
  89. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    1:08:04Why 1949 is a poor guide to Taiwan's resistance in 2022Notable Point
  90. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    1:16:17How a power can blunder and still winQ&A
  91. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    1:30:33The October 2022 warning that the war in Ukraine could last yearsQ&A
  92. Offset Strategies One to Four
    27:29Strategy fails when political aims are not fundedNotable Point
  93. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    2:39:02The perfect war fails because the enemy has a voteQ&A
  94. Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    6:08The Treasury's wider model of national securityNotable Point
  95. Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)
    41:47Two plans, one vulnerable Finnish frontierChapter
  96. Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)
    1:26:54How brigade-sized forces can shape a theatreNotable Point
  97. Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)
    1:31:52How reinforcements could have reversed Sweden's local disadvantageNotable Point
  98. Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future
    2:48:52Russian attrition in an April 2022 assessmentQ&A
  99. Battle of Shiloh (Long Patrol)
    22:07Why capital-centred strategy trapped the eastern armiesNotable Point
  100. Battle of Shiloh (Long Patrol)
    29:45Richmond was both a vulnerable capital and an industrial necessityNotable Point
  101. Battle of Shiloh (Long Patrol)
    33:23Distance from the capitals widened western operational choicesNotable Point
  102. Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events
    2:34:56Grant compared with Moltke as a strategistQ&A
  103. Bruships 69: The Decider
    2:28:34The strategic and political cases for retaking the PhilippinesQ&A
  104. Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."
    1:04:35Q&A: Did Russia expect to win by endurance?Q&A
  105. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    1:03:32Britain's army and navy strategies pulled apartNotable Point
  106. Sherman's March to the Sea
    1:18:43Johnston, Hood, and the road not taken at AtlantaNotable Point
  107. Sherman's March to the Sea
    1:20:39When military activity substitutes for achievementNotable Point
  108. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    1:58:27Why Philip and Alexander left Sparta aloneQ&A
  109. Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI
    1:24:10Afghanistan withdrawal and a United Nations handoverNotable Point
  110. Bruships 55: New Books
    45:31The operational design of Severus's Scottish campaignChapter
  111. Bruships 55: New Books
    2:06:38Why Lucullus chose Mithridates over every other crisisChapter
  112. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    3:12:13Winning a war is different from building a stateNotable Point
  113. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    14:54Hannibal's Alpine invasion and the misreading of RomeQ&A
  114. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    23:51The Maginot Line depended on Belgium and Allied timingChapter
  115. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    32:03The Polish guarantee and the limits of strategic reachQ&A
  116. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...
    38:42Defense in depth beyond the Maginot Line's strong sectorQ&A
  117. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy
    6:11World War I's warning about the AlpsNotable Point
  118. Battle of Bull Run: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p1/7
    9:08A quick Richmond strike versus the Anaconda PlanNotable Point
  119. Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol
    12:41Italy delays and divides its opening offensiveNotable Point
  120. The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol
    26:28Land defeats push the war toward the DardanellesNotable Point
  121. A Book or Two to Review (3): Strategy, A History
    7:00Frederick's resource logic for limited warNotable Point
  122. A Book or Two to Review (3): Strategy, A History
    10:10Napoleon's decisive-battle risk logicNotable Point
  123. A Book or Two to Review (3): Strategy, A History
    23:56Modern strategy beyond the kinetic fightNotable Point
  124. Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)
    44:31Cherbourg's unrealized Cotentin redoubtNotable Point
  125. Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)
    1:30:36Brooke applies France's defence-in-depth lessonNotable Point
  126. Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail
    2:03:03Armed forces as insurance against another government's mistakeNotable Point
  127. Bruships 44: Strategy
    3:26:55Political pressure produced an advance that stopped at separated campsNotable Point
  128. Bruships 44: Strategy
    3:29:19Operation Compass broke the Italian camp systemChapter
  129. Bruships 44: Strategy
    3:31:15Caution cost Operation Compass momentum before BardiaNotable Point
  130. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    2:07:34Comparing national performance across two world warsQ&A
  131. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    3:33:45Political skill did not make Hitler a sound strategistNotable Point
  132. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:07:44Britain kept sending divisions overseas during the invasion scareNotable Point
  133. Bruships 36: International Relations
    1:21:26Which Axis power came closest to preparing for a long war?Q&A
  134. Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys
    1:49:07Churchill, North Sumatra, and strategy without adequate resourcesChapter
  135. 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-22
    31:21How fixed defences release mobile forcesNotable Point
  136. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:44:49Did Japan have a practical plan to invade Australia?Q&A
  137. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:05:33Did the Iwo Jima bombing reveal the island's value?Q&A
  138. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:02:50A history of predicting the future of warNotable Point
  139. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:10:55Defence reviews and the cost of inter-service rivalryQ&A