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- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:04:48Different national motives sustain competition in better warshipsNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:26:57Built fleets make strength visible without guaranteeing peaceNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:28:17Wealth and industrial potential take time to become capabilityNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:29:54Japanese fear, stronger opponents and the smaller-war forecastNotable Point
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:45Could a BattleTech drone fleet deter the Succession Wars?Q&A
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous58:14How much earlier could the new capital ships have arrived?Notable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:17:18Force Z: why a small deployment could weaken deterrenceChapter
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live31:49Japan's big ships as a deterrentNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:28Why visible guns still matter for naval deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:38Warrior, Gloire, and the public image of naval technologyNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:04Where a 170-gun first rate could actually see actionQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?58:57Two battle lines give Britain worldwide task-group depthNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:19:56Japan's minimum-force strategy combines fleet strength and distant logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:36What an impossibly large 1939 Royal Navy would changeQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:36:49French submarines preserve Britain's Far East screenNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...0:00Why the 6-6 fleet still needed light forcesChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...8:20Perry's intervention and Japan's search for sea powerChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...10:03Perry's expedition and Japan's later strategic fearsNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...51:34Russian fear reveals the destroyers' deterrent effectNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?38:12A four-tier hierarchy links ships to crisis-management rolesNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?41:55Peacetime deterrence sustains missile researchNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:28:43The Monroe Doctrine and the German risk fleetNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:30:42British fleet building and the cost of deterrenceChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)31:34Warrior and the limits of technological deterrenceNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers26:53Admiral-class battleships carried weapons for every threat layerNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:39When a US frigate without Mark 41 still mattersQ&A
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?22:31Third rates added weight to frigate diplomacyNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?42:12Patrol vessels and cruisers offer different levels of presenceNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?1:04:24Port visits explain why diplomacy still needs crewed shipsNotable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!30:23What a modern light frigate is forChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:14:19How a stronger Turkish battlefleet changes neutrality and naval treatiesQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:13:20Deterring a Taiwan war by making the costs persistQ&A
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- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:14:54Neutrality, arms support and the risk of a wider conflictNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:20:38Why obsolete ironclads still offered useful deterrenceQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:19A powerful Swedish battleship need not provoke a German attackQ&A
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold27:23Why seventeenth-century ship labels misleadChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?36:48G3 and N3 as a warning against another naval raceNotable Point
- Grumman A6 Intruder: Utilty Bomb Truck that gave Aircraft Carriers Reach, Punch & Flexibility30:31The Intruder in Cold War presence and combat operationsNotable Point
- Grumman A6 Intruder: Utilty Bomb Truck that gave Aircraft Carriers Reach, Punch & Flexibility34:17Specialisation versus air-wing commonalityChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence14:28Hornby's restraint in the San Juan Islands Pig WarChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence57:34Crisis signaling must become clearer as war approachesNotable Point
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!26:25Medium guns make small combatants costly to ignoreNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:19:41What the early US Navy lacked above its frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:55:08Could Britain have concentrated more capital ships in the Eastern Fleet?Q&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?1:02:56A stronger fleet changes deterrence and destroyer designChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:20:29Britannic's escort as a surface-raider deterrentNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:32:33How Bismarck shaped Soviet surface-raider doctrineNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class5:25Procurement should answer manageable threats, not impossible absolutesNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class42:28Armored cruisers as the Six-Six Fleet's second battle lineChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:19:01The Russo-Japanese War tested the deterrent fleet in combatNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:23:02Deterrence worked because foreign powers knew the fleet's strengthChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:27:30The Six-Six Fleet as coastal siege warfare at seaNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:28:25Applying Six-Six Fleet principles to a modern navyNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...39:20Warrior as managed naval escalationNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...48:19Deterrent benchmarks change across generationsNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...48:19Graham and White build the Admiral class to endureChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...49:40Admiral names turn history into deterrent languageNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...55:20Benbow's gun and numbers turn design into deterrenceNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...57:13Why Britain's empire depended on naval deterrenceNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:10:28Fisher separates war fighting from global presenceChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:15:27How battlecruisers became the public image of the dreadnoughtNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?6:47Why cruiser deterrence left Britain's battle-fleet strength uncertainNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?13:36How cruiser withdrawals weakened Britain's Far East deterrentNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?15:41Deterrence, Singapore, and the composition of Force ZChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...2:08:18Spain and Russia face a higher dreadnought thresholdNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:31:41George Byng turns mentorship into institutional continuityChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:53:25Byng turns fleet readiness into deterrent diplomacyNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:14:08How Yamato competed with Shokaku for Japanese resourcesQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:40:27A 1936 British rearmament programme built around sea powerQ&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:36:20Fleet confidence changes diplomacy and frustrates a submarine offsetNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes49:58Fremantle's routine service was deterrence workingChapter
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...1:23:36How a post-Tojo Japan might rebuild deterrenceNotable Point
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers17:39The Joffre class and French global reachChapter
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers43:45French carriers and strategic independenceNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!45:50Cold War prestige versus specialized warshipsNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!50:28Finding the good-enough warshipNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...12:31Restoring the station-cruiser roleChapter
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...33:05A global-presence ship with wartime valueQ&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...1:16:24Keeping Goeben contained in the MediterraneanChapter
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...1:21:26Layered deterrence from patrol ships to carrier groupsNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:09:06Why Heligoland breaks Germany's naval deterrence strategyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...0:51Tirpitz's deterrent plan and the naval arms raceQ&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 11:30:55Naval dominance can suppress the battles a campaign seeksNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 533:53Walrus presence and deterrence in the Far EastNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...54:08Carrier air power helps deter a move against BelizeNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:46:47Ark Royal's height combined seakeeping with visible powerNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:33:46Italy's deterrence logic for giant capital shipsQ&A
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:04:34Design the carrier for deterrence and peacetime presenceNotable Point
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)43:34Gannet patrols made long-range ASW a form of operational deterrenceChapter
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 510:35Capital-ship appearance as a form of deterrenceChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:47:53If Fisher remained First Sea Lord until 1914Q&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:54:10A 16-inch Alaska would not replace Iowa's postwar prestigeQ&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:53:23Designing a light cruiser for worldwide presenceChapter
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:20:04Using fleet expansion to deter the next opponentChapter
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:49:04Why a stronger Dutch navy still avoids war with JapanQ&A
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.2:06:28M-class guns and the conflict over cruiser visibilityNotable Point
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals41:05Buccaneers signal British resolve over BelizeChapter
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:11:19Vanguard would not guarantee Falklands deterrenceQ&A
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 111:12Cuniberti's six-ship deterrent squadronNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 810:48Deterrence through a costly Six-Six Fleet fightNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 844:41Matching the Great White Fleet in Japanese watersNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:49:58Distributing more than 260 submarines across imperial portsNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...26:00Russian capital ships for a Black Sea risk fleetChapter
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)47:49Spain's first rates protected a dispersed empireNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)1:07:55Rayo's rebuild added guns but harmed handlingNotable Point
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- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI1:15:31Force Z basing balanced military reach and political signalNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1027:24Could an Ersatz Monarch have reached service in wartime?Notable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 80:49Fisher's deterrent vision depended on staff workChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 88:20Visible fleet mobilization as deterrenceNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 74:17Why capital ships displaced escorts and support forcesNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 76:23Making battle-fleet strength visible as deterrenceNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 711:01A stronger battle fleet still could not win the PacificChapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 722:42Yamato as the baseline for a larger battle fleetChapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 731:24Deterrence needs construction, messaging, and deploymentNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 732:27French treaty parity and the cost of global presenceNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 57:01German naval power changes the Dutch defence problemNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 525:00Why a Vickers ship could be strategically usefulNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 449:19The Royal Navy's three-theatre nightmareNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:27:14How American cruiser orders could have encouraged an Empire fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:33:51How cruiser numbers could deter commerce raidersNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...32:24Dominion security depended on the Royal NavyNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...32:50Canadian economy versus visible deterrenceNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...1:15:31Japan's seven-to-ten risk-fleet logicChapter
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 332:22How unfinished battleships could still influence strategyNotable Point
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- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda36:13Why the dreadnought transition served Adriatic deterrenceChapter
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda1:02:18Austria-Hungary's Adriatic risk-fleet strategyNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses12:29Why completed Soviet capital ships would demand a responseNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response15:45Warrior's possible influence on Fisher and DreadnoughtQ&A
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 235:59Duncans and deterrence through overmatchNotable Point
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 245:01Dreadnought innovation without sustained overmatchNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:17Dreadnought numbers depend on industrial capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:46:41Naval presence is scaled to the messageNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate, The Boshin War & the Origin Story of Tōgō Heihachirō23:40Why one ironclad could deter a squadronNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate, The Boshin War & the Origin Story of Tōgō Heihachirō31:46How capturing Kotetsu might have forced negotiationsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 310:24Why G3 and N3 would disrupt rival battlefleetsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 313:20G3 as concentrated capability, not one breakthroughChapter
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War12:41Chile’s naval-spending and deterrence debateNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War34:54Blanco Encalada’s central-battery ironclad designChapter
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)19:36SMS Oldenburg and German fleet deterrenceNotable Point
- USS New Ironsides: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 820:49New Ironsides in an Anglo-American naval crisisNotable Point
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 613:37Naval investment for Dutch securityNotable Point
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 623:04Deterrence without expecting victoryNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 43:52A guardship built to stop a quick harbour seizureChapter
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 46:49Four ten-inch guns and a changing secondary batteryNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 410:30Fear of raids in Victoria's imperial settingNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 119:10A deterrent meant to reset naval competitionChapter
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- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!57:57Gangut: a Navarino veteran rebuilt for the steam ageNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:08:39An 18-inch Agincourt against a Bismarck-like opponentNotable Point
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- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:14:03Gorshkov's Kirov concept made presence part of deterrenceNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:25:08Whiskey SSGNs turned harbour defence into a resource trapNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:37:20Visible armament helped Soviet ships fight the peaceNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style1:05:18Visible armament turns presence into a political signalNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)4:33Naval procurement deters through diplomatic behaviorNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)42:00Thetis calibrates force on the Bering Sea PatrolNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:51:20Fisher's prewar strength was deterrence, not managing a prolonged warQ&A
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- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:45:26N3 would likely evolve toward Nelson's layout in a no-treaty arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:54:40Bismarck alone could not deter the Royal Navy battle lineQ&A
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 425:48Halo's Marathon class as a fleet backbone and deterrentNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 210:45Torpedoes turn a protected cruiser into a costly riskNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 220:32A collision reveals Italy's torpedo-cruiser-heavy fleetNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 225:17Britain doubles Germany's blockade forceNotable Point
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 112:33The deterrent sweet spot of a second-class cruiserNotable Point
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 136:04Presence in peace and surge strength in warChapter
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 139:20Why a second-class cruiser should avoid a solo battleNotable Point
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 140:45Warships as insurance rather than battle trophiesNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?3:11Why Navarino became a deterrence crisisChapter
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:01:28Competing strategies around the Ottoman fleetChapter
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:05:59A peaceful entry staged as overwhelming confidenceChapter
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:26:01A naval victory Britain did not wantChapter
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:29:37Why deterrence depended on an admiral's reputationChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video24:05How revealing Yamato could have prolonged the battleship ageQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video28:38Queen Elizabeth's first deployment as visible deterrenceQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video29:54Why a capital ship must look first-rankQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:17:37Yamato as both battle-line weapon and deterrentQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:23:33A Ceylon-based alternative for Force ZQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History56:00Yamato could not deter an enemy kept ignorant of itNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History1:04:29Mixed signals and narrow force design invite the Falklands WarChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:15:18Secrecy squandered Yamato's deterrent valueChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:21:19Naval presence makes the threat implicitNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:44:59Falklands exposes deterrence and force-design failuresChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)9:40A three-squadron cruiser plan for 1880s BrazilQ&A
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 111:06:32Submarine strength is difficult to display in peacetimeNotable Point
- Town Class (1911): Chathams37:09The Battle of Cocos shapes Japanese views of AustraliaNotable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments20:02A 1930s armored-cruiser equivalent for GreeceQ&A
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less14:06Jackie Fisher uses flotillas to buy time for the battle fleetChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less15:36Mixed fleets turn torpedo boats into force multipliersNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)25:53Fleet strength changes the Falklands deterrence calculationNotable Point
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)12:04From a worldwide fleet to a North Sea fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine46:06Deterrence requires deployable fleet strengthChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine51:49Deterrence needs capability, not fear of rhetoricQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:00:21Fisher wanted fear of war to prevent warQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:02:05Aegis Ashore is not equivalent to a ship at seaQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)1:00:31Why naval superiority had to look unmistakableChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:09:11Peacetime labels conceal a cruiser-based mobilization planNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:11:37Concealed strength helps manage the Klingon allianceNotable Point
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)9:28Why cut-price County cruisers were a false economyChapter
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)17:33Operating costs undermine the cheap-cruiser caseNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)1:24:29Treaty limits, security, and deterrenceChapter
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)31:18A prewar naval crisis need not become a fight to annihilationNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:04:26Continuous construction as a deterrent signalChapter
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:08:09Deterrence works by checking fear and greedChapter
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)0:31Why Britain and Spain relied on cruisers overseasChapter
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)1:28Why a raider might avoid a convoy it could defeatNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)25:48Exeter's escort role and Far East deploymentNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:47:27April 2022 caution on Black Sea naval deploymentsQ&A
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)53:50Controlled naval competition as deterrenceChapter
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)1:06:12Treaty ratios, Japanese insecurity and British readinessChapter
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)16:41Could Yamato have been a more effective deterrent?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:55:20Why Japan backed down before 1941Notable Point
- County Cruisers P5: Getting Proscriptive with Cruisers… London Naval Treaty of 1930 (Long Patrol)13:47How prescriptive replacement schedules constrained fleetsNotable Point
- County Cruisers P5: Getting Proscriptive with Cruisers… London Naval Treaty of 1930 (Long Patrol)16:34Procurement as a measured deterrent signalNotable Point
- County Cruisers P5: Getting Proscriptive with Cruisers… London Naval Treaty of 1930 (Long Patrol)32:21Arms control and the appearance of weaknessNotable Point
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)31:46Royal Navy presence as conference diplomacyNotable Point
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)58:57Britain and Germany misread each other's signalsNotable Point
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)1:00:41Deterrence requires capability and clear signalsChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)32:23Triple turrets and the prewar naval raceNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)34:48Deterrence financing and the cost of warChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)36:43Presence, capability, and broadside superiorityNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...20:55HMS Hood, prestige, and the risks of deterrent imageQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...27:36Why one lost supercarrier would not automatically break US naval prestigeQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...51:13How revealing Yamato in 1941 could have changed Allied planningQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:48:31Richardson tied deterrence to fleet readinessNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:13:42Older dreadnoughts could still guard convoysQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:25:11Yamato secrecy undercut deterrenceNotable Point
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol9:51Risk-fleet theory and its British assumptionsChapter
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol14:29Symbolic force and fear in Tarkin's doctrineNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol55:32Germany's naval challenge creates a strategic trapChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:22:04Dreadnought as a first-mover deterrent signalChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:25:36Tsushima, prepared components, and construction speedNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:35:38Could Grand Fleet mobilization have changed the July Crisis?Notable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:40:34Fisher's deterrence through overwhelming naval powerChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:45:41A Tarkin comparison tests Fisher's deterrence modelNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/41:28Can a risk fleet idea deter with modern forces?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/45:26Why Tirpitz's risk fleet was a fragile gambleNotable Point
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.4:04:08Every navy had reason to fear HMS HoodQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai11:25Status ships and the limits of deterrenceNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai15:18Why Yonai doubted war with Britain and AmericaNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff45:33Risk Fleet deterrence versus submarine warChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:04:11Japanese treaty factions as competing deterrence strategiesQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:54:29Deterrence works by creating room for confident restraintChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:57:26Submarines and missiles reinforce the same sea-denial problemQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence5:07:24Frigates as the visible edge of deterrenceChapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:09:22Yonai saw Yamato as deterrence, not a war-winning fleetNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:14:57An interwar Royal Navy built around armoured cruisersQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea10:35Italy, Abyssinia, and Mediterranean deterrenceNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 4/11 What Dreadnought Obscures2:31Minas Geraes: armour and turret layoutNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:59:53Steam rams failed when collision became the main weaponQ&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:01:34The Herluf Trolle class and Danish armed neutralityNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:04:46Norway's Tordenskjold class and cost-imposing deterrenceChapter
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:26:16Sweden's Oden class and a recurring coastal-warship formNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191315:44American deterrence without escalationNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191317:21Why matching gun power did not equal deterrenceNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191318:03Britain's planned concentration of 15-inch battleshipsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191318:37Capital ships and the uncertainty of deterrenceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191127:17The risk fleet's strategic signalling paradoxChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 190622:19Disarmament, naval insurance, and credible warningsNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:51:12How Britain watched the Russian fleetQ&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:01:06Why visible submarine presence weakens stealthNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context3:28Battleships could support operations without being presentNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:17:03How HMS Fox could hold a battleship at risk in 1919Notable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy28:16Why size still matters in cyber, space, and missile warfareNotable Point
- Town Class Part 6 of 7: Gloucesters5:38HMS Liverpool and the Asama Maru incidentChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol16:23Cruisers in Far Eastern deterrence plansChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol41:55What a carrier could have changed for Force ZNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/230:26Why the Pacific War is not a universal fleet templateNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:00:22What Germany sought from a risk fleetQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:05:57Does a weak presence ship invite disaster?Q&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2215:43Article 21 and a naval build-up outside the treatyChapter
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?1:10:03The Leanders as a middle tier between Arethusas and TownsChapter
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era37:16Sea power as leverage outside ConstantinopleNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:21:45Why HMS Dreadnought was not the point at AlgecirasQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:22:36The Algeciras fleet demonstrationNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:33:27The danger of an in-between naval presenceChapter
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:07:19The most effective use of gunboat diplomacyQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 49:28Tsingtao containment shifts attention back to EuropeChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 416:24Containment creates false confidence in the Far EastNotable Point
- 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 - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 412:59An old cruiser makes convoy attacks costlyNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 45:54French naval resolve without weakening the army in EuropeNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4326:38Presence, distance, and deterrence in the Indian OceanChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-433:09:47Would Somerville have used Force Z differently?Q&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)15:58Deterrence without making war inevitableQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)18:52Town-class cruisers as a mobile Far East deterrentNotable Point
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy31:37Nuclear deterrence needs a continuous at-sea postureChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 211:49Percy Noble practiced calibrated deterrence on the China StationNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:18:28The targeting and escalation problem of anti-ship ballistic missilesQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:26:04Why Force Z needed a carrier more than prestigeQ&A
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video10:27Birmingham's gunpoint standoff risks a wider warNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video48:51Deterring Japan with the threat of blockadeChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video53:58A deterrent demonstration near JapanChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video1:10:04Navies enforce maritime order short of warChapter
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile1:09:46Survivability as a foundation of conventional deterrenceNotable Point