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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:48:47A Dutch carrier for scouting, air defence and commandNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live33:17A counterfactual change in Pacific command after Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:25:28The information task of a good admiralQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:15:20Three years barely changes naval high commandQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:36:44Would more radar practice improve its wartime use?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)39:02Were Gallipoli's naval commanders capable officers?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)1:39:50Why Fisher could not readily dismiss JellicoeNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:55:39Why Beatty would not replace Jellicoe during the battleQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:56:20Why Andrew Cunningham fits a fictional Azur Lane commandQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:12:41Why a fictional naval command still needs administrationQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:21:02Have naval officers become less aggressive?Q&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)4:08Task forces predate their American numbering systemChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)8:34Falklands command shows why task-force labels matterNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)13:35Age-of-sail commanders assembled named forcesChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)16:27Commodore appointments could bypass an unsuitable senior captainNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)20:02Harwich Force as a First World War task forceChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)24:12A fleet sustains an organization; a task force sustains a missionQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)25:55Task forces need officers who can act alone and togetherNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)27:06Sturdee sailed as a squadron but gathered a task forceQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)34:12Peacetime administration and wartime organization solve different problemsNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)49:03Task forces existed before the steam ageQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)53:33A task-force flagship trades staff room for information accessQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:30:03U.S. task-force doctrine planned for rapid expansionChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:35:37Reserve officers gave Britain depth for wartime expansionNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)2:02:39Japanese captains carried initiative under a senior-heavy command systemNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)2:05:18Japanese attrition groups needed independence and radio silenceNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)2:46:08Uncrewed systems may make each ship a task unitQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:47Lissa, invasion weather, and naval self-defeatQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:36The Dutch fleet's abundance of admiralsQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:01The most junior officers to command a post ship in battleQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:27How leaving Nelson before Trafalgar reshaped an admiral's reputationNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:18Flag officers and their senior enlisted counterpartsQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today26:27Information overload and the judgment learned in destroyersNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today46:02Independent destroyer forces before World War IINotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today47:07DesRon 21 shows why destroyer screens need autonomyNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:16Why Victory might lead a fictional age-of-sail Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:16Red, white, and blue squadrons in Royal Navy commandNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:06Yellow admirals and the limits of promotion by seniorityQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:00Why small NATO navies need senior officers at staff meetingsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:58:38Why a small ship might carry a full captain or commodoreQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:00Choosing a command position at TsushimaQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:53Prince Louis of Battenberg as wartime First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:24Why serving officers rarely criticize defence policy in publicNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:37What replacing Beatty before Jutland could changeQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:46Preparing a command handover aboard the fictional carrier AvalonQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:32Destroyer captains inherited the frigate-captain traditionQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:15Cruiser squadrons and destroyer flotillas use different command levelsQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:49Nelson, insubordination, and the protection of victoryQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:06A Falklands book for understanding commandQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:57How Falklands reporting confused a flag captain with the commanderNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:55An 1870s admiral commanding a fleet in the 1670sQ&A
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate15:18Ministerial procurement after the naval law failedChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate15:32The Dutch Navy's missing professional chiefNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:10:37How many admirals could gather on one ship?Q&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?49:30Crete's airfields ease carrier demands and support a larger eastern fleetNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...1:17:15More firepower does not remove Beatty's command problemNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:11Divisional channels and the decision to give an orderChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)10:36How chief petty officer networks reveal organized mutinyNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)32:53Cowan's Baltic command meets a war-weary forceNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)52:31Command authority and the chiefs' leadership networkQ&A
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:21:45Tomkinson investigates complaints before testing the fleetNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:24:13Invergordon becomes a disciplined work-to-rule protestChapter
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:29:17The Admiralty's interim pay message fails to settle the disputeNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:32:47The stoppage spreads as Tomkinson seeks specific pay concessionsNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:36:49How 'my earnest advice' carried command weightNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:38:18Tomkinson and the return from InvergordonNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)1:47:31Who was responsible for Invergordon's communication failure?Notable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:00:45Tomkinson's career and a cautious Admiralty inferenceNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:06:01Chiefs translate between sailors' committees and officersNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:11:57HMS Nelson's captain avoids forcing a formal mutinyNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:07Why major naval disasters rarely exclude politicsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:19Why destroyer captains were not routinely given stimulantsQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...0:00Polish naval ranks resist simple English translationsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...7:44Sealed orders take Polish destroyers to Britain before invasionNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...16:08Polish sea-going and staff appointments complicate rank comparisonsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...53:53Draug prepares for invasion and captures a German supply shipNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:02:56British mining feints complicate Norwegian neutrality patrolsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:04:20Sleipner and a local militia capture German shipsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:15:10Niels Juel attempts a Danish dash to SwedenChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:19:24Why Niels Juel needed an earlier night departureNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...47:28Togo turns fleet depth into operational freedomNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?7:34Tom Phillips reshapes ABDA commandChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?11:38An ABDA headquarters ashore needs a separate fleet commanderNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?14:54ABDA needs the naval half of British joint planningNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?16:14The ships already available to build an Eastern FleetChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?25:08January reinforcements fill the fleet's carrier and AA gapsChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?31:03Why British carriers need a separate fleet flagshipNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?33:11Phillips could lead ABDA while Wavell directs its ground forcesNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?37:08Phillips brings staff and diplomatic experience to ABDANotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:22:18Why King favored British leadership of ABDANotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...15:56Destroyers cross from boats to shipsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...55:00Independent operations push destroyers to growNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:14:50Destroyer officers learn fleet command earlyNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!2:50How admiral, commodore, captain, and commander entered naval useChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!36:58French captain grades preserve age-of-sail commandNotable Point
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!56:26Spanish admiral titles and amphibious commandChapter
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:57Why HMS Gloucester was sent back off CreteQ&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:27:18Dogger Bank with faster, heavier British shipsChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:33:04Alexander Bethell and Beatty's signalsNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:37:23Why a former intelligence director could challenge BeattyNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:23:36Would battlecruisers strengthen the Harwich Force?Q&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:26:29Why Babylon 5's fleets feel more organized than Star Trek'sQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...1:31:41Landing parties and command continuityNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...3:16:50Choosing Stargate as the livable universeQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:19:44Choosing a Starfleet ship to commandQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:24:32Admiral Byng and the cost of setting an exampleQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:25:07Parker's signal as protection for NelsonNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:11Nelson did not take the whole fleet into CopenhagenNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...17:12Carrier command and the use of specialist staffNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi1:15:24An unauthorized fleet expedition and the civil-military boundaryNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi1:18:14Cunningham's simple orders versus overcomplicated commandChapter
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet23:51Hein's troubled second West India expeditionChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust6:23:38Michael Clapp's account of an unresolved Falklands press embargoNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:29:53Capable Italian crews were undermined above ship levelNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II7:32:52Why Yi Sun-sin was so difficult to replaceQ&A
- Procuring for Peace First Draft59:29Flag mobility is an operational capabilityNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command0:00Lepanto as an alliance command problemChapter
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command30:38Professionalism made temporary allies effectiveNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command31:42Don John, Santa Cruz, and authority by consentChapter
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command35:44The Falklands analogy: command, rank, and blameNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command40:48Ottoman command joined military and political officeNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command41:54Ottoman commanders combined political and military powerChapter
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command59:40Flags and messenger boats carried battle ordersNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command1:01:06Command losses, smoke, and Ottoman collapseChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?12:22British surveillance and response at Scapa FlowNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean18:18Command initiative at the Glorious First of JuneNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?5:06Third Fleet's overlapping command structureNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?45:47Lee would have risked his career by actingNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:08:03Victory would protect both Halsey and LeeNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:11:42Why the counterfactual remains unlikelyChapter
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:15:54Halsey's Iowa-class battleships made activation less likelyChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?48:11The Task Force 34 message that left the strait openChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?55:24Clear orders and verification as Leyte's lasting lessonChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut53:59AI risks for naval forcesQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:00How Halsey's flagship complicated Task Force 34Notable Point
- Battle of Actium(31BC); Last Gasp of the Roman Republic27:21Antony deploys a fleet built to barge throughChapter
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...23:11Samuel Story's experience did not secure authorityChapter
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...27:02Andrew Mitchell brings institutional confidenceChapter
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:58:06Who controls an Italian carrier's air group at sea?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:30:10Would another navy fire a Royal Navy captain?Q&A
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy13:46French flag rank and the problem of international precedenceNotable Point
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy22:14Why command at each level requires new trainingNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:47Can one fictional captain be greatest of all time?Q&A
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory26:30Brueys anchors in the exposed Aboukir BayChapter
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory56:55Brueys reports his weakness but does not change the fleet's positionNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:40The captain's steward as a readiness safeguardNotable Point
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...53:12How fleet formation produced rear and vice admiralsNotable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada0:00Gravelines as the Armada's last chance to reformChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada16:40Santa Cruz and the loss of adaptive commandChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada23:40Elizabeth's ministers sustained effective naval commandNotable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada23:40Howard's command team and the Dutch blockadeChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada27:55The Armada's fragmented command structureChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada1:08:24The Armada's lesson in planning and logisticsNotable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada1:09:22Would Philip II personally commanding the Armada have helped?Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:14Why a captain's steward supports command readinessNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit55:36The Pearl Harbor committee untangles naval commandNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...38:35Poor coordination saves Arkansas at VicksburgChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...41:01The Baton Rouge order overrules ship readinessChapter
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort0:00Why the Royal Navy feared SuffrenChapter
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort21:26A fleet without a common officer cultureNotable Point
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort40:57Negapatam exposes a command-accountability crisisNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō53:00Why Japan divided forces under senior commandersNotable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose28:36What schout-bij-nacht meant in the Dutch NavyNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?40:53Sailing past Reval's guns magnifies every disadvantageNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)40:56At Hogland, command pressure drives Russian ships into the shallowsChapter
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)53:51At Rügen, forcing the Swedish fleet aside opens the troop routeNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)56:21Charles XII's distant campaigns weaken central commandNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)3:21:06Prince Charles cannot convert numbers into victoryNotable Point
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:39:22Why Yi Sun-sin was vulnerable to enemy fireQ&A
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?33:17George Tryon's loss made subordinate judgment essentialNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:22:27Cunningham, shore command, and better communicationsChapter
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:34Could Greyhound plausibly serve off Normandy and in the Pacific?Q&A
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style0:25Cannon and command at Zonchio in 1499Chapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style4:43Venice's merchant-officer model and its leadership riskNotable Point
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style28:39Antonio Grimani's political authority and command weaknessChapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style32:17Repeated Venetian delay before the battleChapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style36:40Kemal Reis and the Ottoman advantage in commandChapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style42:32Why accounts name different Ottoman commandersNotable Point
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style47:45How Grimani arranged the Venetian battle lineChapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style48:45When the Venetian battle line would not obeyChapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style51:44Burak Reis's burning flagship and Venetian moraleChapter
- Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style52:48Grimani's arrest and the evidence against his captainsNotable Point
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship17:04TB 95 gave Somerville an unusually early commandNotable Point
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?50:07Reactor tradeoffs and an armored command cocoonNotable Point
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…5:24Ark Royal, Walsingham, and Raleigh’s Armada absenceNotable Point
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…30:17Why the Islands Voyage failed under divided commandChapter
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…33:54Charles Howard takes the fleet to sea against the Third Spanish ArmadaNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:22:16Admiral Kimmel in the Guadalcanal campaignQ&A
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?24:53Where Henderson might have served after leaving the AdmiraltyChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:06:10More carriers create safer command arrangements off NorwayChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:08:45Glorious exposed the danger of imagining a safe zone at seaNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:29:40Henderson could tighten amphibious command in NorwayNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class7:38Itō's command record and ten years atop the Naval General StaffChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:08:40Mikasa as a purpose-built Combined Fleet flagshipChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:12:32Why admirals left armored conning towers to see the battleNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:06Removing a naval commander who has lost authorityQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:12What an acting captaincy revealed about promotion and patronageNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:56:57Private ships and the changing meaning of stag shipNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?31:01Tom Phillips's destroyer career and decision to sortieNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:52Farragut and Santa Cruz in a command wargameQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:02Could Santa Cruz have turned against Philip II?Q&A
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command0:02Why the Royal Navy needed formal officer educationChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command7:01Henry May builds a school for admirals and staff officersChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command39:29Naval command fuses technical possibility with human judgmentNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command47:12Ragnar Colvin teaches command decisions through integrated staff workChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked48:35Russell turns superiority into victory at BarfleurChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:39:09William Parker's eleven days as First Naval LordNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!1:25:14Connections at home and near-absolute authority at seaNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him27:11First command and a deserter diplomacy testNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him30:38Sailing practice, diplomatic voyages, and rescue seamanshipChapter
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:52Sir William Parker's convenient illnessQ&A
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...34:05Why Tōgō's first command is difficult to dateNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...43:29Turning prolonged illness into professional studyNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:04:58The Beiyang Fleet's defeat at the Yalu RiverChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:08:27Teaching officers and organizing the Standing FleetChapter
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:12:18Why a convoy commodore does not command the escortsNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience48:16USS Ferret and a first independent commandChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:21:14Farragut's likely rank in a modern navyQ&A
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea12:48Sherbrooke, Burnett, and Kummetz faced different command problemsNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea15:00The Kriegsmarine's command pool narrowed its leadership choicesNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea22:07Senior-officer losses disrupted naval command continuityNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:24:27Why medieval naval commanders are hard to identifyQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?36:32Master and Commander illustrates command discretion at seaQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:37:52Tiger Cub cruisers change Dogger Bank before JutlandQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...0:52Why Beatty commanded like a ship's captainQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...2:39Greenwich and the Royal Navy's uneven staff educationNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...4:19Destroyer flotillas as practical schools for naval commandNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:04:27How did generals adapt to command at sea?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:03:02The electricians behind effective naval gunneryQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:40:19How retaining Kimmel might change the Pacific WarQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast35:07Trafalgar's two columns and its flag officersQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast48:51Commanders forced to fight against their usual styleQ&A
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 10857:27Nagano's oil warning and direct access to the emperorNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:37:57Foreknowledge makes Trafalgar worse for the combined fleetQ&A
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!36:41Camperdown's lopsided captures and casualtiesNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:11:39Spruance as the likely replacement if Halsey never reached the South PacificQ&A
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?3:24Why Beatty was an unusual but usable choiceNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?6:47An independent deputy for MilneNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?40:20Failure could reopen battlecruiser commandNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?56:27Victory could steady a divided AdmiraltyNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?1:03:00A victory plays to Beatty's strengths and weaknessesNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?1:14:22The right admiral for a narrow momentNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?1:18:35A flawed admiral can fit the right missionNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...12:37Why carrier personnel totals can disagreeQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall36:28Would Günther Lütjens succeed as a carrier commander?Q&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage46:17A carrier group concentrates division-scale combat powerNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:41:46The risky Japanese decision at the Yellow SeaQ&A
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...16:16Uncrewed escorts and the danger of command from afarNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...33:40The carrier as a mobile airbase and command centreNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...35:10Why carriers became natural flagshipsNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...4:26A retractable island loses out to command-space demandsNotable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!50:18Ship's boats were essential mobility before helicoptersQ&A
- HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 240:42Why a senior officer is sent to depot commandQ&A
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier27:29Accidental escalation and British interpositionNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier27:29Seward's United America as an escalation engineNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier37:29Panther, Fort San Carlos, and coalition disciplineNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier1:20:48Dewey's first-battle geographyNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 321:36Togo would represent Japan in London rather than command at seaNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 330:45Choosing a commander without weakening Japan's home fleetNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 336:13Japanese reinforcement could expand the Channel commandNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 340:13Fuso could bring a Japanese divisional commander into the Grand FleetNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 345:46Squadron naming and seniority complicate Japanese integrationNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191234:38Dual-hatted carrier and air staffsNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191239:47The kokutai hierarchy combined flying and supportChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191250:10The command structure lacked expansion redundancyNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191259:28First Carrier Division as a doctrinal laboratoryNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:09:15Ark Royal's inquiry and readiness accountabilityNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:16:15Counter-flooding and watertight evacuation aboard Ark RoyalNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:00:17Yorktown and the point when salvage risk outweighs recoveryNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:15:59Reeves gives King independent carrier task-force commandNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:14:34Where would Admiral Yamamoto serve?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:19:46Could Tanaka command Japan's Mediterranean contingent?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:38:38Rewriting command and communications at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:48:31IJN factionalism and weak operational supportQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:08:23How to judge wrongful punishment in a navyQ&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?51:45A stronger cruiser force before CoronelNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?57:44The overlooked force balance at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:01:16Dogger Bank without the signal that concentrated on BlucherNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:11:19Why did Sturdee disperse ships instead of reinforcing Cradock?Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:25:15Would Hipper's capture change the German command problem?Q&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built23:50Why the French squadron held back in the Third Anglo-Dutch WarQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?49:03Why command cruisers were usually ordinary cruisers with flag facilitiesQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism28:17Would Nelson have been sent to fight the United States?Q&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:17:18Why Royal Navy battles were not commanders acting from boredomQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait59:47Second Fleet organizes Japan's Solomons strike powerChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books35:54Who takes command after a ship's officers are woundedQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books43:52Why Admiral Byng could not escape blameQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19422:14:13Katori's training role and limited combat capabilityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:35:33Command initiative should prevent fleet collisionsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:04:56Different warships reward different command personalitiesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:13:48Constitution has the weight, but Cochrane makes the result uncertainQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:39:38Modern admirals map imperfectly onto Napoleonic command rolesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:01:39The Grand Fleet could not use its American squadron as unwitting baitQ&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō26:26Why the hybrid inherited both ships' weaknessesNotable Point
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike51:37Pearl Harbor may have overachieved its purposeNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?53:09Would Admiral Kimmel remain in command?Q&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 215:15Henderson was prepared for Mediterranean or Far East commandChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 254:18Long command changed how officers used doctrineChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:00:22Fame narrowed the Eastern Fleet command choiceChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:17:29A night strike could make Nagumo overestimate the British forceNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:29:28Royal Navy command culture rewarded attackChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:35:13A defensible decision could still end an active commandNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response43:48Queen Anne's Mansions traded target size for staff spaceNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?26:46Nakhimov’s experienced command teamChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?54:11Rules of engagement could not survive contactNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response1:15How Renown accommodated an admiral's staffQ&A
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response7:21Why modernized battleships made awkward command hubsNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response8:26Why Victorian flagship staffs stayed compactChapter
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response9:46The specialist officers in a Victorian flagship staffNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response11:02Why modern amphibious command centers need so much spaceNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War3:37Jutland's information failures sharpen the command lessonNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War14:27Port Arthur consumed Russia's prepared Pacific forceNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War18:34Togo and Rozhestvensky brought different command strengthsChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War24:48Fighting fleets and designing them require different admiralsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War42:07Missing flag officers overloaded Russian commandNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:51:03Rozhestvensky's leadership carried a foredoomed expeditionNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War2:07:57Casualties broke command before the Russian surrenderChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships8:07How a Jutland command swap changes the battleQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships33:16How restrictive orders neutralize Scharnhorst's strengthQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships39:38Why Beatty's battlecruiser command was not a double promotionQ&A
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 236:51Town-class cruisers became wartime fleet cornerstonesChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:18:18HMS Ladybird as an afloat command and logistics shipNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:21:46Searching for a naval equivalent to ZamaQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:36:39Swapping Beatty and Jellicoe at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:52:31Commodore as an appointment and the Falklands command problemQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?57:11Burke's ten-second lesson from Blackett StraitNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:11:05Modern ships still depended on trained crewsQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:18:29Matsuji Ijuin's connections and command recordNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:23:48Sentaro Omori's command background and reliefNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:52:45Who would replace an injured battlecruiser commander in 1915?Q&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:23:58A destroyer flotilla mixed captains, commanders, and lieutenant commandersNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:28:39Captain could be an address without being the officer's rankQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:49:36Cunningham and Fraser blurred commander-in-chief and fleet commandQ&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:27:13A major Far Eastern fleet requires senior combined commandNotable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:05:11Would defeat in Norway threaten Hitler's position?Q&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:24:58Somerville commands a fleet rather than a detachmentNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)10:48Villeneuve faced Nelson with defeat already in mindNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)52:33Calder's departure narrowed Nelson's marginNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series4:11Replacing an injured battlecruiser commanderQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series13:59Why seniority constrained an independent battlecruiser commandQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series17:03When a deputy effectively directs a fleetQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series27:35Why remote task-force command caused friction in the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series51:44Why Beatty's signalling problem was bigger than one officerQ&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty5:19Ground rules for the Jutland counterfactualChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty8:16German command profiling constrains the divergenceNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty12:16Would Sturdee keep HMS Lion as flagship?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty16:44Why Sturdee is the plausible replacementChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty30:03Could Somerset Gough-Calthorpe replace Beatty?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty47:05An emergency replacement needs an established admiralNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:52:27Why Beatty failed to report contact clearlyQ&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:06:29Why Beatty's staff did not challenge himQ&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:07:41Could an injured flag officer remain in command?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:38:17Would Jellicoe still receive credit for Jutland?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:45:30Would Beatty regain fleet command after recovery?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series41:09Who decided whether an ill Jellicoe stayed aboardQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series45:35When Shinano's captain could know the carrier was lostQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:02:35How much discretion captains have over ammunition loadsQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:56:09Small-boat doctrine had to be learned in warChapter
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 538:08Battle damage, repair, and flagship utilityNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 447:38Bayly’s experience before Formidable’s last exerciseNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 456:03The Admiralty inquiry, Bayly’s relief, and institutional learningNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 459:48Fleet strength depends on integrated screeningNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 41:01:46Judging naval decisions without hindsightNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:16:19How victory at Pearl Harbor could reshape Pacific commandQ&A
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 944:44Tryon, HMS Victoria, and independent command judgementNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!38:07How command assumptions weakened Pearl Harbor readinessQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:39:52Why Hood is the logical replacement for BeattyQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:59:57Villeneuve's command problem before TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:47:27The Black Sea Fleet's limited options after a reported command strikeQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!21:49Command tunnel vision and the staff’s corrective roleQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!28:04Why replacing weak officers may not fix a war effortQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!36:09Comparing naval captains requires a mission and a periodQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!47:08Judging commanders without hindsightQ&A
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?13:29Command choices prolonged the doomed defense of MassawaChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound10:41A Victorian flagship carried command, logistics, and informal staff workChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound16:51A distant-station flagship had to solve crises before London couldChapter
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare13:37Recalled to a fragmented naval commandChapter
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'8:38Why battlecruisers entered the Jutland battle lineNotable Point
- Invasion of Trimcomalee(1795)20:03Managing divided command in the East IndiesNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:33:52How gun decks determined flag accommodationQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:31:36What a destroyer leader adds to a flotillaQ&A
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough17:14Why fourth rates suited distant stationsChapter
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)9:04Buchanan and Farragut: opposing command stylesChapter
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)17:01Why Farragut chose USS Hartford as flagshipNotable Point
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)49:30Ramming needs speed, and command needs visibilityChapter
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)52:22Why Tennessee should have stayed behind the minefieldNotable Point
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)55:40Was Farragut right to wait for USS Tecumseh?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:31:40A turret explosion forces an improvised withdrawalNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:37:39When a fast capital-ship force should disengageNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:54:36Overconfidence turns an even battle into a defeatNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:39:15Admiral Rodney between prize money and strategic dutyChapter
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail38:07The Saints and the commander-in-chief problemChapter
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology7:07Tegetthoff's wedge exploits Italian disunityChapter
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology12:02Unification left Italy with an unready fleetNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology27:26A flagship transfer worsens command and controlNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology41:43Powder without shot exposes unready gun crewsNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology43:13Italian commanders ignore the final attack orderNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?31:11Destroyer flotillas trained future fleet commandersNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:15:49Would Beatty have returned to command in the Second World War?Q&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)1:24:08Grenada broke Byron but produced no pursuitNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:57:43Guadalcanal exposed command failures as well as technical gapsNotable Point
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response7:19Why a flagship needs room for a command staffQ&A
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response16:28Career paths and the surface fleet's missing flagshipNotable Point
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response20:15Ticonderoga captains directed carrier-group air warfareNotable Point
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response0:48Why Belknap served as a Sixth Fleet flagshipQ&A
- Albany Class: Comment Response27:05Why escorts risk themselves for capital shipsNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway40:52Command pressure made strategic restraint difficultNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway42:45Cruiser integration revealed different command culturesNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?34:23Howe's command bench and the flag-captain systemNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:06:24Why neither battered ship reached 1 JuneNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:09:12Caesar's hesitation and Queen's sacrificeChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:21:08False confidence yields the weather gaugeNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:23:06The convoy passes while both fleets recoverNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:30:28Political oversight and the 1 June balanceNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:38:05Howe's all-ships attackChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:44:08Initiative, hesitation, and the ragged British attackChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:50:47Initiative breaks the central division's long-range fightNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:53:21Brunswick locks with VengeurNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:57:27Hood drives the rear division into the meleeChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:07:43Royal Sovereign blocks a French regroupingNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:17:47Why Howe could not take every disabled shipChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:01:23Howe's experience and the British command benchChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:08:07Did senior admirals still command in battle?Q&A
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:14:46A political representative aboard the French flagshipNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:28:02Howe's pursuit also protected Montagu's detached squadronNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:36:04Audacious and Révolutionnaire fight themselves out of the campaignChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:44:30Caesar's refusal to close the French lineNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:44:30Howe leads the 29 May breakthrough himselfChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:53:08How fleets repeated signals along the battle lineQ&A
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:56:04Why was Molloy not executed during the campaign?Q&A
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:14:32HMS Defence breaks through first and fights aloneChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:18:07Caesar leaves her opponent free to attack other shipsNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:19:31Invincible closes while the forward centre hangs backChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:44:45Villaret returns for his disabled shipsChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:48:11The accusation that Roger Curtis stopped the pursuitNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:58:31Molloy's court martial separates courage from command abilityChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:09:24Better shells could make Beatty press too farNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:28:22Jutland signalling failures involved a whole staffNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:55:06Better shells do not remove British battlecruiser lossesNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon2:03:03Moltke's loss could end the German operationNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:21:53Marschall likely brings Bismarck home after Denmark StraitQ&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:20:00Rheinübung began with a strained command relationship and an avoidable fuel problemChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:33:02Was Lütjens surrounded by yes-men?Q&A
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...50:56Captain Molloy and HMS Caesar at the Glorious First of JuneNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:39:30Ships were easier to replace than experienced crewsNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:50:48Beatty’s staff failure still rests with BeattyNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:51:22The striking force both sides left outside JutlandChapter
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...2:28:09David Beatty might not command the American theatreQ&A
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 103:33A fast flagship before the battlecruiser eraNotable Point
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 108:19Why flag-signalling rules for port failed at seaNotable Point
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 1024:14A flagship tailored to Fisher's way of commandNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:43:13Halsey's aggression and the limits of plausible replacementsQ&A
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20231:18:52A failed interception turns dock control into the next objectiveNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20231:37:03Why naval commanders delegate battle controlNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:42:32Italian destroyers in Mediterranean and Atlantic seasNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:43:53The Royal Navy's earliest Admirals of the FleetQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7619:45A major air service needs a voice at the AdmiraltyChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7637:12Keeping the naval aviator officer pipeline intactQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:00:17The failures above HMS Glorious's captainNotable Point
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent18:20USS Chicago and Mahan's practical credibilityNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat42:40Judging Admiral Fletcher's caution without hindsightQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:34:17Why cruisers served as division flagshipsQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:41:26Who commanded a destroyer flotillaQ&A
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 514:49The Russo-Turkish War and unready ironcladsNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)57:39Roboute Guilliman through Nimitz, Cunningham and St VincentNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:20:14Why the Western Squadron drew senior commandersNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:01:18Squadrons, divisions, and colored flag ranks at BarfleurNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:33:22Quiberon Bay breaks up the French fleetNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:42:27Ushant: changing winds and Victory's withheld broadsideChapter
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:50:13Keppel's signals fail to reunite the fleet at UshantNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron31:50Why Penn's successor is uncertainNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron32:50Command continuity carried the squadron into the nineteenth centuryNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron47:57How flag officers and commodores divided a large battle fleetNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:17:10Close engagement was enforced as a professional normNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:43:51The Keppel-Palliser affair after UshantNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:47:36Damaged rigging constrained Palliser's response to Keppel's ordersNotable Point
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...39:00Command tenure and Gorshkov's institutional influenceNotable Point
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...1:13:14Were the Song deceived or too exhausted to respond?Notable Point
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...1:15:24The fall of the Song court at YamenNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy29:39Parker's diplomacy and Nelson's fighting roleNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy30:19Collingwood, Duncan, and models of admiralshipNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy33:21Danish command misreads Britain's objectiveNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy39:49Denmark's static defence and unused mobile shipsChapter
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy47:47Denmark's unused strength and training gapNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy1:04:35Prize-taking amid the silenced Danish lineNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/227:11An improvised revolutionary fleetChapter
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/242:03Azopardo and responsibility for defeatNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/252:08William Brown and Argentine naval powerNotable Point
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters57:26Hyde Parker and Nelson as a command pairNotable Point
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters1:08:13Olfert Fischer and disrupted Danish commandChapter
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters1:58:20The recall signal and Nelson's decisionNotable Point
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:01:08Why did Parker keep his reserve out of the close action?Q&A
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:22:45What did an experienced crew mean by a "strange sail"?Q&A
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:25:30Nelson's path from Copenhagen to TrafalgarNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'29:06A failed withdrawal and Beatty's careerQ&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:13:47Would stopping Goeben keep Battenberg at the Admiralty?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:22:25Does the counterfactual also improve the commander's information?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.3:18:06Responsibility for Beatty's signalling extended through his staffNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.3:29:40Would Milne command the battlecruisers better than Beatty?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)2:37:15Why real squadron handling fails in the gameNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)2:50:11One ship chases while another cuts off escapeNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:13:25An improvised fleet with a communication problemNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:19:23San Nicolás: dividing an outnumbered flotillaChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:25:08Defeat, royalist river control, and William BrownNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:09:42Kaiser’s wooden hull among the ironclads at LissaChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas52:16Georgios Averof and the speed of a mixed fleetNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood46:54Kinkaid, Hosogaya, and the tyranny of distanceNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:04:48Kinkaid's path from battleships to North Pacific commandNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...36:24Who might replace Beatty in battlecruiser command?Q&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:06:31Stafford Fairborne led inshore operations himselfChapter
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:36:22How could the fast battleships be kept out of Beatty's command?Q&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:07:31Could Ernest King obstruct coalition command?Q&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:02:05Flag captains and flagship managementNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:13:41The command network at Cape St VincentNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6521:11Civil War command ranks reward careful reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:37:41Admiral staffs grew from dozens to hundredsQ&A
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed48:01Virginia commanded a Mediterranean Tomahawk groupChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)10:15Albany moved from gun-cruiser diplomacy to missile prestigeChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)11:40Albany's service life required repeated modernizationChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)16:10Red Crown turned Chicago into an air-control nodeChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)16:48Chicago linked rescue support with air-warfare commandNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)18:14Northampton became a survivable national command postChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)20:37USS Triton exposed the limits of submarine command postsNotable Point
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction8:38Kemal Reis, Grimani, and uneven fleet commandChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction11:02Zonchio and the first cannon exchange at seaChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction14:08Grimani's punishment and Venice's leadership problemNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?38:21Aft pivot gun and command communicationsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:15:24The captain's suite and command supportNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:53:02A successful Spee return would reshape German naval commandQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat4:02:14Beatty ended an exercise after being outmaneuveredNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat4:09:22How naval relief works with local authoritiesQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...16:21Protecting the command successor and the tankersNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6520:39Submarine attrition and purges destroyed institutional learningNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6527:37Risk aversion neutralized Black Sea Fleet superiorityNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6530:36Gorshkov's Black Sea amphibious apprenticeshipChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6538:25Gorshkov survived the risks that restrained other commandersNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6552:36Political risk encouraged iterative ship and weapons developmentChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:02:17Fear distorted information and succession after StalinNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:06:33Kuznetsov's fall opened a thirty-year Gorshkov eraChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine10:19The command fantasy of victory without lossNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:15:32High-status ships and strategic loss aversionNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193911:13The fleet response to Potemkin exposed mixed loyaltiesNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class9:29Why Germany needed effective light cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books47:48When naval commanders became political leadersQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:56:18Aggressive Soviet officers under conservative fleet commandNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books4:36:34How officers and institutions shaped shipboard cultureQ&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:25:54How Queen Anne's Mansion made Nelson a fleet flagshipNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:28:12When does an admiral's ego become an operational problem?Q&A
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:00:43Bacchante's Mediterranean flagship handoverChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:03:39Bacchante's officers and the wartime command bottleneckNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:17:16Admiralty micromanagement on the Broad FourteensNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)39:10Niobe's grounding exposes command and readiness failuresNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)48:23Coronel illustrates how Royal Navy tradition shaped commandNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)12:21Sail-era command logic survives into the steam fleetNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)1:23:33Instant communications narrow the cruiser's diplomatic autonomyNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response9:09Why von Spee risked the Falkland IslandsQ&A
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response17:47The Royal Navy's expectation to engageNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response20:51Could Cradock shadow von Spee until reinforcements arrived?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response41:18A political case for keeping Cradock with CanopusQ&A
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response51:55Cradock's ability and the reinforcements he never receivedNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response1:04:59Otranto, smoke, and a possible night escapeQ&A
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?7:43Why destroyers were flotilla assets and cruisers independent shipsNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)18:57Hertha's global presence depended on foreign dry docksNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 42:26:49Jellicoe and Trafalgar through fictional command stylesQ&A
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 130:18HMS Forth's 1892 manoeuvre accidentChapter
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?37:12Contrasting the French and Russian admiralsChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:30:08Why Kurita's withdrawal at Samar deserves qualified criticismQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:30:25How Beatty's reporting constrained Jellicoe at JutlandQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers1:08:10Command tours must build the next formation leadersNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers53:20Boise's dramatic gunnery order hides a targeting problemNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)28:46Freeboard and habitability could make a cruiser a better flagshipNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:34:27Cunningham and Somerville become available in the eastNotable Point
- Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 1035:37HMS Grafton transfers the Pacific Station flagChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 234:37Harwood as an alternative commander at the Java SeaQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 248:42Ranking Royal Navy admirals of World War IIQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 257:09Why Hitler is cast as the worst naval commanderQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:11:36Star Trek captains as naval command typesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:34:35Commanding and disciplining Habakkuk's crewQ&A
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p325:34The Council of Admirals governs CreteNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again7:44Why space warfare still needs internal logicNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again37:00Avalon's commander accepts risk that only specialists can manageChapter
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again43:23A navigator and engineers turn Avalon's risky order into actionNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again50:13Avalon survives a point-blank battleship pass and fights the damageChapter
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again57:03A fighter pilot commands Avalon by relying on shipboard specialistsNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:05:22Would future warships still need ranks and specialties?Q&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:09:01Acceleration tanks turn high-gravity combat into a networked command problemNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:50:10Combat readiness is a chain of specialist confirmationsNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again2:32:40Why a starship captain leaves the bridge to serve as diplomatNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19418:31Somerville, Churchill, and command confidenceNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194110:31The Royal Navy's depleted command benchChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:11:53Who deserves command credit for Santiago?Notable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War1:02:17Dewey gives Gridley discretion over the opening shotNotable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:09:30Who deserved credit for Santiago?Notable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:15:27Why Cervera obeyed a fatal breakout orderQ&A
- Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?40:37Plotting assumptions and ignored distress callsChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)51:37Thomas Buckley Curteis ran out of suitable commandsNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:02:12Three years at Gibraltar justified George Collins's retirementChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:03:00A global naval war needs experienced commanders everywhereNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:17:35Did Gibraltar count as a combat posting?Q&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:24:44How wartime sea and shore commands comparedQ&A
- Nine Sailed Star Book Review & Interview with Glynn Stewart9:09Why does Elvar command not devolve after an admiral is lost?Q&A
- Nine Sailed Star Book Review & Interview with Glynn Stewart11:57Duty, honor, and judgment under brittle ordersNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)37:25Sidney Smith as an improvised special-operations commanderQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:08:40HMS Captain's guns and uncertain commander in 1799Notable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:19:43Cochrane or Pellew for frigate command?Q&A
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol43:34Republican command and Carthaginian constraintsNotable Point
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol1:01:34How the Carthaginian retreat divided Rome's fleetNotable Point
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol1:03:57Three separate battles and Roman reliefChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future55:16Remote command brings a communications penaltyNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)41:29HMS Eagle as a carrier-flagship modelNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet48:24How familiar exercise patterns can mislead officersQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet55:40HMAS Sydney and the danger of closing a raiderQ&A
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)32:52Bathurst corvette bridge design and the radar transitionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)29:15Why Villeneuve sailed despite the dangerQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:42:34Why Admiral Holland could be the greater lossQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:51:11Why captains sometimes stayed with sinking shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:11:17Reading the Indianapolis court martial as institutional scapegoatingQ&A
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)33:39River Plate command and adaptive thinkingQ&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:45:36A no-win war and the paradox of Japanese riskNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:39:42Lord Cork and the avoidable failure in NorwayQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)27:36Factionalism distorts Japanese naval commandNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:14:38Dissent within naval high commandNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:46:50I-58 is diverted from an imminent Iwo Jima attackNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:31:23Roman offices and extended military commandsNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:35:05Carthaginian and Roman command incentivesNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:37:31Command continuity behind the Roman fleetChapter
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:44:41Falto's disputed triumphNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:53:30How Rome and Carthage punished defeated commandersNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:01:13Losses, a wind shift, and Hanno's fateNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:06:28How punishment after defeat could encourage defectionNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)32:52Command structure restrains tactical fixationNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:47:00What counts as a naval Charge of the Light BrigadeQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:24:11Q&A: how Repulse might have changed Java SeaQ&A
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)36:50First Cruiser Squadron and Gordon MooreChapter
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)49:25Troubridge, Goeben, and ambiguous ordersChapter
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)57:09Unequal consequences after the Goeben decisionNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)1:00:52Arbuthnot takes the engaged sideChapter
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)1:10:52Duke of Edinburgh remains useful at JutlandNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...17:20James Richardson's warnings about basing the Pacific Fleet at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)4:20HMS Condor at Alexandria: success with reservationsNotable Point
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)35:14Parliamentary influence while serving abroadNotable Point
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)36:05HMS Undaunted: a modern cruiser and first captaincyNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:15:43Mediterranean command and resistance to initiativeNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:29:23Percy Scott, gunnery practice, and unsafe ordersChapter
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:11:05Would Beresford have tried to ram the Russian squadron?Q&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:12:05George V's restraint in naval mattersQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:12:14Would Beatty have been better suited to the battle line?Q&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:12:42Arbuthnot's route through the Grand FleetQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:14:55Which naval faction supported Arbuthnot?Q&A
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)27:18The Glorious loss exposes the cost of a missed escort groupNotable Point
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)26:12Why armoured conning towers lost their appealChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)37:57The conning tower as an expensive compromiseNotable Point
- A Book or Two To Review (37): Admirals Oath (Dakotan Confederacy Book 1)7:34Command after defeatChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:22:22Were the Deutschlands convincing flagships?Q&A
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)27:55Who might have led the Royal Navy in a 1906 war?Notable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:12:51A modernized HMS Rodney against YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:28:53How Admiral Cunningham might have pressed the Pearl Harbor attackQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:55:50Why Halo cannot cleanly separate ship design from captaincyQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII35:22Harwich needed both an operational commander and a dockyard commanderNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?15:41Fragmented command inside the Japanese NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat41:22Why armed uncrewed ships still need peopleQ&A
- WW2 in the Mediterranean up until November 1940: p2 Taranto Long Patrol7:32Cunningham’s smaller battle line had carrier expertiseChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:04:35Did Monitor withdraw first at Hampton Roads?Q&A
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)14:37Station experience made complex planning possibleNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol39:48Allied command friction and naval experienceChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol45:13Colour squadrons as a command reserveNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol51:16Collingwood's rank, Mediterranean command, and memorialNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol53:00Patronage, reputation, and officer developmentNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:09:35HMS Africa and independent commandNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:10:48The two-column attack at TrafalgarChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:30:38Turner's Trafalgar painting and the battle after Nelson fellNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)8:57Robert Blake versus Nelson as naval commandersQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)17:14A preference for Collingwood over Nelson or BlakeQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)20:24Would Nelson take the same risks in Cornwallis's post?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)35:12Jervis and complaints about Nelson at Cape St VincentQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)46:14Napoleon and the alleged command offer to Sidney SmithNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)54:55Investment, training, and officer losses in the French navyQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:04:36Why Villeneuve would not wait out Nelson at CadizQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:20:04Villeneuve's unwanted command at ToulonNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:32:47How far down the officer list could emergency command pass?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:35:04How the Royal Navy's colored flag ranks workedChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:57:07Why Spanish squadrons did not simply obey VilleneuveNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:12:31How Thomas Hardy extended Nelson's commandQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:21:43How lieutenants kept ships fighting after captains fellNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:29:17Could injured naval commanders remain in service?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:35:31Why Parker signalled withdrawal at CopenhagenQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:06:40Beatty's responsibility for Seymour's treatmentQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:27:32Nelson and Jellicoe adapting to circumstancesQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:48:08Was Villeneuve the best French commander available?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:55:40A wounded Spanish commander stays on the quarterdeckNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:58:11Why not place the combined fleet under a Spanish admiral?Q&A
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion0:12Command skill, luck, and predictable decisionsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion9:56Cornwallis backs up Calder with frigate scoutsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion22:14Cadiz blockade and the Royal Navy command networkChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion45:17Trafalgar was one of several possible campaign battlesChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign2:09French command after Latouche-TrévilleNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign3:34Napoleon's unworkable fleet timetablesNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign4:47The January sortie and Villeneuve's resignation requestChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign10:56Yellow admirals as an unused reserve of captainsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign16:06Villeneuve's command nightmareNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign20:08Gravina as Spanish liaison and counterweightNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign32:33Diamond Rock's surrender and court-martialNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign46:19Cádiz, Calder's court-martial, and the demand to fightChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (34): The Battle of Quiberon Bay 17597:01Conflans rejects dividing an inadequate invasion fleetNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (34): The Battle of Quiberon Bay 175913:31Why Conflans reached Quiberon Bay so slowlyChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders0:40How the colour-squadron rank system workedChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders3:42Admirals as global commanders and administratorsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders11:08Promotion through the coloursChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders19:56Colour ranks, commodores and modern command gradesNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders22:54Strachan and joint-command frictionNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders1:18How blockade weakened French commandChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders6:51Villeneuve's record and Napoleon's faith in luckChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders13:09Napoleon rejects Dumanoir at ToulonChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders14:27Dumanoir, Cape Ortegal, and the experience gapChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders16:54Gravina's reputation and careerChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders20:22Gravina, Finisterre, and the British comparisonNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders22:02Van Heell and the Batavian invasion forceNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders23:36Rosily, hydrography, and active sea serviceChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders27:02Amiens and France's lost training opportunityNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)48:51Reggio cleared after court-martialNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)49:43Knowles's victory, court-martial, and damaged reputationNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:08:15De With replaces Tromp amid factional naval politicsChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:40:59A fleet that behaved like a coalitionNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:46:03Where did the rank of commodore come from?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:31:27De With is refused by Tromp's former flagshipNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:54:26Command requires confidence, but defeat recasts it as arroganceNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol13:32De With, Tromp, and coalition commandNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol18:54Robert Blake's authority at seaNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol21:00When a fleet rejects its commanderNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol25:33De With forces a decisive battleNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol40:03Dutch losses and a disciplined retreatChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)46:03Early U.S. destroyer performance was also a command problemQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:23:50Could Britannia have served as a Falklands hospital ship?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:33:17The missing forward vice admiral in the FalklandsNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada4:11Combining political and naval-staff authorityNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada4:59Fisher's admiralissimo and the demands of supreme commandNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada11:05Concentrated command and Shimada's personal responsibilityNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194016:33Lord Cork's command problem as the campaign deterioratesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi0:37Riccardi enters after a chief judged unfit for commandNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:39:24Who commands a battleship captured by destroyers?Q&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:02:57Why the Admiralty needed global tracking mapsQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea1:37Republican naval command under political suspicionChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time11:12Beatty and responsibility for reportingNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time14:04Why Beatty was poorly suited to the Battle Cruiser ForceNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time16:31Suppressing Harper's review and protecting BeattyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time16:59The signals officer as a force-wide safeguardNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)16:02Scuttling warships after false threat reportsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:11:45How Beatty might have acted at the DardanellesQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI1:08:16Why an admiral needs a separate staffQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI1:12:05The Cressy losses and the cost of stopping for survivorsNotable Point
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:05:38Why HMS Defence should not have closed at JutlandNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol9:26Edson and Carlson led different Raider experimentsNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol16:29Carlson's modern Raider organizationNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol23:40Landing confusion and the first fightChapter
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol26:58Peatross's detached squad changes the fightNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol31:15A surrender message exposes command breakdownNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194116:54Phillips, Somerville, and Far East Fleet commandNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident2:47Why strategic commanders must also be politiciansNotable Point
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol10:57Two navies are ordered to become one fleetNotable Point
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol39:39Drache absorbs punishment and stays in the fightNotable Point
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol56:50Persano's plausible idea fails in executionNotable Point
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:42:12A command structure assembled for the plan, not the teamQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live2:13:20Japanese formations converged from separate basesNotable Point
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol30:19Seydi Ali Pasha and the limits of English-language sourcesChapter
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol52:32Paired Russian attacks disrupt Ottoman commandChapter
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol59:58Sea control makes the Dardanelles a fleet problemNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI41:39French chiefs of staff changed faster than their British counterpartsChapter
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI59:48Why be cautious when judging poorly documented French admirals?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:05:20March 18 exposed the Dardanelles command breaking pointNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:26:45How does Rear Admiral Guépratte rate as a commander?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:28:02Did British admirals also lead naval forces ashore?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:33:54Formal French command did not guarantee coalition obedienceNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI3:07:04Why did French admirals rank differently from British admirals?Q&A
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)10:21Combined Fleet leadership from Yamamoto to ToyodaNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)34:40Why Spruance and Mitscher used different flagshipsNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)44:19The Falklands remote-command comparisonNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:25:49Lee refuses to gamble on night battleNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)29:04Why Milbourne James prepared Portsmouth earlyNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)59:29Brest demolition parties show prior preparationNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:12:28Improvised command at La PalliceChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:58:57Reginald Tyrwhitt and aggressive Harwich Force commandChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty13:50Jellicoe's deployment and Beatty's creditChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty18:08Scheer's surprise tests who earned the tactical crossingNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty19:20Communications staff and Beatty's strategic limitNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune19:22Parker, Nelson, and Amazon prepare for CopenhagenChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:04:03Why Ramsay, Vian, and Kirk fit their D-Day commandsQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class42:29How Gorgon could complicate the German entry into NarvikNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:11:27Capital ships as flagship platformsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:33:26Why Jellicoe chose Iron DukeQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:41:44Cradock in place of BeattyQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:01:05Why Tribal-class service appears in notable commanders' careersQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:03:38D'Estaing's missed opportunities and coalition strainChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:10:56How Howe attempted deliberate line-breaking before 1 JuneChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:37:48How Howe tried to break the French lineChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail48:40Orders to distant stations traveled at the speed of shipsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:20:13Why Royal Navy admirals carried red, white, and blue ranksQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:31:53Admiral ranks began as positions in the battle lineQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:33:02A Commonwealth fleet would require shared political commandQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:27:19How Project Habakkuk might have been commandedQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:10:54Mission command existed before navies named itQ&A
- 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity43:32The Battle of May Island as a coordination failureChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval3:57:46Would unified command have changed Leyte Gulf?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval4:04:13Why could Nimitz not simply command Leyte from forward waters?Q&A
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!49:50French squadrons carried a blurred chain of commandChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:00:33Why did HMS Formidable have two captains?Q&A
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:03:46A fleet designed to survive command lossesNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy59:35Could Prince Philip have remained in naval command?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy2:14:54HMS Magpie was Philip's own anti-submarine commandChapter
- Prince Philips Navy2:21:07Why a sloop could be a prestigious anti-submarine commandQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy33:04Better intelligence should support rather than remote-control commandersNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:07:56PQ 17 and decisions made under a feared surface attackNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:14:28Churchill's indirect connection to PQ 17Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:31:32Beatty's strengths in press relations and politicsQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:35:32Ernest King's senior command required more than a harsh reputationNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:53:29Star Trek captains as an analogy for command and industrial resilienceNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:09:18Beachy Head was a victory without strategic decisionChapter
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...1:14:56How destroyer flotillas produced wartime flag officersQ&A
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...1:18:27Port admirals ran active wartime area commandsQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland45:32Was Rear Admiral King or the promotion system at fault?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya12:04Naval seniority gives Force C unified commandNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:00:17What if von Spee had brought his squadron home?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...2:19:39Which destroyer commanders went on to flag rank?Q&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments8:49Why naval initiative changes from one era to anotherQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments16:11How a squadron commander obtained a flag captainQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments16:36How battlecruiser speed and guns encouraged aggressive handlingNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments17:20Sturdee's tactical strength and strategic limitsQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment34:46Why the USS Valiant's cadet command is implausibleNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment37:48Would David Beatty have fared better in the age of sail?Q&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:17:31Drake, Doughty, and command cohesion at seaNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 191614:54Hipper, Beatty, and the communications paradoxNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 19151:16Force odds shape judgments of commandNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191521:47The British order of battle and its layered commandsChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191538:16Beatty and Hipper bring different command weaknessesChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191545:36Blücher's damage exposes a confused interception orderNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191557:04An intelligence-led ambush fails to destroy Hipper's forceChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 178112:01Hyde Parker and Zoutman bring experience to the contestChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 178119:45Hyde Parker asks for better ships and younger officersNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 178120:18Dogger Bank as a test of crews and commandNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 169610:56Jean Bart's path from fishing commerce to French commandChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol Part 1/6 - 169613:55The Dutch escorts hold for three hours before command collapsesChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191631:22Jean Bart rises from privateer to French admiralNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:01:43Age-of-sail admirals fought beyond central directionNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:06:29Hyde Parker's career across three warsNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:10:15The close-range 1781 battle and its strategic resultChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:15:58Hyde Parker's resignation and younger admiralsNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:39:00Talent and patronage in the Russian officer corpsNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:08:14Why Rozhestvensky continued toward TsushimaQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:25:52Could the British destroyers have attacked?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:34:06Why Beatty escaped a Dogger Bank court martialQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:02:20How Beatty could have handed over commandQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:05:58Could Beatty transfer his flag during the chase?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:06:51Could another admiral have replaced Beatty?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:15:35Beatty's signals turn pursuit into a Blücher-only victoryChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 231:46China Station operations depend on trusted local commandNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 131:38Bias Bay turned jurisdiction into a counter-piracy obstacleChapter
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East37:17China Station commanders and the Singapore strategyChapter
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East55:26Command turnover weakened station experienceNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:07:02Using capable admirals as a form of deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History25:19Does Roosevelt's War of 1812 history cover the Great Lakes?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet1:10:59Commanders and the fleet's dramatic departureChapter
- The Great White Fleet1:18:01Why the US Navy relied on rear admirals for senior commandQ&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations2:16:35Responsibility for the British failure at PlattsburghQ&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations3:25:16Naval operations under CromwellQ&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations3:31:03Can an admiral command carriers without pilot wings?Q&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations3:31:27Yi Sun-sin as a favorite naval commanderQ&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)14:44Would Kirk's age fit battleship command?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:03:43Enterprise-C as an exploration and presence cruiserChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:10:56Why submarine services favored younger aggressive commandersNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:17:22What a credible starship away team would requireNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:39:23Why Sisko should not command both ship and fleetChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:43:11Would Andromeda or a Venator be easier to command?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:13:55Why Dutch command titles resist modern rank equivalentsNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:52:47Poor coalition command exposes de Ruyter at AugustaChapter
- Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?1:11:23Cradock as an aggressive Dardanelles commanderNotable Point
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?20:27Mountbatten's strengths did not make him a complete commanderQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:10:27Commanders who would have used the radarNotable Point
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions11:21Greek evacuation routing across dispersed Aegean embarkation pointsNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol37:41How carrier losses consumed irreplaceable expertiseNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond7:34One operation forces several Italian responsesNotable Point
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/246:25Conning towers and the limits of command protectionNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson14:19Parker's recall signal as command protectionChapter
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson22:23Cape St Vincent and the boarding decisionChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy9:20Villeneuve expected Nelson's attack - but lacked a reaction forceNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy21:26If Nelson had survived TrafalgarQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy39:03A top-heavy command structure in the Allied fleetChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy56:51Sea time matters more than a common languageQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:02:34Why the Allied fleet became so closely managedQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:03:20Trafalgar's capable opponentsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:24:36Was a better French admiral available than Villeneuve?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:32:04Federico Gravina's uneven command experienceQ&A
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle13:42The opposing senior commands in the order of battleChapter
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle17:01Why the Allied fleet carried so many senior officersNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle25:40Nelson's reputation and the freedom to actChapter
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle27:18Command depth after revolutionary disruptionNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 1/2 - The Battle28:59Villeneuve and the Royal Navy's family networksNotable Point
- Four Random Books 8: Churchill9:50Spee aborts the Port Stanley attackNotable Point
- Four Random Books 8: Churchill11:02Glasgow scouts as Sturdee's squadron gets under wayNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol38:11Sloops in task-force doctrine and command trainingChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:37Jellicoe with Sturdee's battlecruisersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:14:09Can an admiral serve without later sea command?Q&A
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers2:21Inside the Admiralty Operations RoomNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers3:29Dudley Pound’s health and the burden of wartime commandNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers7:38Senior-command friction over the Narvik expeditionNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers11:21Why the destroyers considered returning to Narvik harbourNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 34:24Channel geography creates a command problemChapter
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson2:38Why junior officers had to think independently at seaNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson11:47Nelson as a commander rather than a legendChapter
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson14:19Why high-command backing mattered to NelsonNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car58:20Why did Agnew command Force K?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:03:08Force K belonged to Cunningham's Mediterranean commandQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:12:32Why Neptune led without taking command of Force KQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:21:21Why Italian surface officers could be more experienced than German advisersNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:48:02Orders to avoid risk weakened Axis tactical freedomNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:10:22Beatty and Jellicoe: a communication problemQ&A
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 23:21Parker's signal and Nelson's blind eyeNotable Point
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 211:20Gambier's experience and the Basque Roads disputeChapter
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 221:11A second-rate flagship chosen for command visibilityNotable Point
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 224:26Third rates for Copenhagen's shallow approachesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era21:23Why compare Constantinople, Alexandria, and AlgecirasChapter
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era40:42Hornby's mission command after the go orderNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era47:07How Hornby might have performed in a major warQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:02:00The Alexandria bombardment as a failure of coercionNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:14:49Why a Mediterranean admiral also needed to be a diplomatNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:29:29Beresford's political strength and command limitsQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:42:56Why distant naval commanders still need delegated authorityQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:49:24Testing Napoleon's view of naval commandNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:02:09Why Seymour was a poor fit for the Mediterranean stationQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:17:33Do First Sea Lords automatically sit in Parliament?Q&A
- An Introduction to Victorian Naval Diplomacy6:50Hornby asks for command depth, not a mass reinforcementNotable Point
- An Introduction to Victorian Naval Diplomacy27:22A misleading Napoleon quote on naval commandNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: Victorian Naval Diplomacy & @BaileInneraora - Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy0:51When naval pressure succeeds - or escalatesNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/320:56Ultra, high command, and the pressure on PoundChapter
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/324:57Pound's feared worst-case scenarioNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/330:45A northern route and the limits of command discretionNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/335:52PQ 17's legacy without a simple villainChapter
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)8:13Schoneveld exposes the allied command problemNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)23:21Allied commanders and fractured authorityNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)25:56Spragge and Tromp's destructive duelNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)38:55Judging seventeenth-century command by later standardsNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)40:16Weather gage and naval professionalismNotable Point
- 2 minute: Battle of Texel0:51Spragge, Tromp, and a failure of overall commandNotable Point
- 2 minute: Battle of Texel1:22French caution under Louis XIV's ordersNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...39:20Why Birmingham's guns would target cruiser bridgesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...47:19What bridge damage could do to a Japanese cruiserQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:08:04Japanese command culture was not mechanically rigidQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:20:02Was Yamamoto sent to sea for protection?Q&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:28:56An American deputy and a Manila coalition headquartersQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:54:25Why Roger Keyes could hold a coalition togetherQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 423:20Treaty restraint meets maritime ruthlessnessNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...7:36A Far Eastern coalition fleetNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 429:43Matching fleet command to theatre logisticsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 445:21The concentrated fleet battle the Royal Navy planned forNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 412:15Percy Noble and proportionate strength in a naval crisisNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 434:37Singapore as the theatre command and logistics hubChapter
- Introduction to the Battle of Cape Passaro11:58Personal ambition and divided advice in both fleetsNotable Point
- Introduction to the Battle of Cape Passaro16:08Why the Spanish fleet could not escape ByngNotable Point
- Introduction to the Battle of Cape Passaro28:42John Byng's difficult Menorca commandChapter
- Introduction to the Battle of Cape Passaro35:45Why John Byng's withdrawal ended in executionChapter
- Introduction to the Battle of Cape Passaro38:08Aggressive determination and equal accountabilityNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 215:32Medina Sidonia's council exposed a seamanship gapNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 216:39Why Álvaro de Bazán's death weakened the ArmadaNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 239:13Why English command experience matters in 1588Notable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)11:15How an interwar destroyer flotilla was organizedNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)22:36HMS Duncan's command spaces and flotilla roleChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:11Command culture, evidence, and Alan TuringNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4330:38East Indies command was built to receive a fleet in crisisChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4343:11How Britain linked its Pacific cruisers into Far Eastern commandQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:03:04How early staff work gave the Royal Navy organizational depthQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:22:45Somerville's experience and exhaustion during Operation CQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:26:16The officers who carried Fleet Air Arm doctrine into senior commandQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:29:15How Mers-el-Kebir added to Somerville's command burdenQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:42:16Would Phillips have kept command after losing Force Z?Q&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:55:24Why the Royal Navy struggled to rotate exhausted commandersQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-433:08:02Robert Blake and George Monck as soldiers who learned naval commandQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)9:43How dispersed stations used seniority to coordinateNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)41:41Why one command could not face west and east at onceNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)48:49Somerville's overwork encouraged reactive commandNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)49:33The recall that turned Cornwall and Dorsetshire toward dangerNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)51:46A command facing east needed a forward and reserve baseNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:24:41Why coalition navies can cooperate effectivelyQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:53:57What lower command ranks signal about fleet scaleQ&A
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?25:06Why Phillips took Force Z north without air coverChapter
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?35:00Holding Singapore changes the Eastern Fleet questionNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?37:04Why Malaya and Force Z failedNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 310:00Trafalgar rewarded a plan the fleet could executeChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 313:16Layered experience kept the Royal Navy fighting at TrafalgarNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:28:12First lieutenant, commander, or executive officer?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:48:09Coronel, sacrifice, and an understrength squadronQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:50:08Honor in defeat versus the duty to preserve crewsQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192947:16M1 linked carrier command, torpedo performance, and strike concentrationNotable Point
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 19291:10:58OC opened a wider problem of air-ASW cooperationNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:09:14The Royal Navy's decentralized night-fighting cultureNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:11:43Commonwealth navies combined independence with close cooperationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:20:29Spruance and Vian faced different command burdensQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:26:32Mitscher preferred, Fletcher respected, and Halsey criticisedQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?30:15Why Birmingham took the lightly armed FolkestoneNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?56:25Why distant-station sloops had senior commandersQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?58:11Could sloops lead groups of smaller escorts?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:03:10Where junior Royal Navy commanders gained experienceQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:24:38First and Third Sea Lord responsibilitiesQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!46:26Jutland's institutional lessons shape interwar designNotable Point
- The End of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video3:17Langsdorff's reputation and the loss of his shipChapter
- The End of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video5:01Commerce-raiding aggression and the risk of interceptionNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video5:48Harwood divides Graf Spee's fireNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video38:12Ajax commands by eye and loses half her main batteryChapter
- SS Streonhalh; the Last Victim of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video2:21Langsdorff's search for bigger prizes and naval gloryChapter
- RN Commands in 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video3:11Cruisers and carriers across the Royal Navy's regional commandsChapter