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- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live51:17Cruiser attacks, divided fire and Holland's Denmark Strait decisionsNotable Point
- Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate0:00Project 17 frigates and independent Indian task groupsChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?50:53A raiding fleet needs escorts with matching reachNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...25:31Radio and the transition in fleet commandChapter
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:37Japanese destroyers beyond their Arleigh Burke ancestryNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:34:00Historical responses to fast and numerous threatsNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?3:11Heavier battlecruisers and faster battleshipsNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?4:27Why cruiser support called for 28 knotsChapter
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?14:33British and German battlecruiser rolesChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?45:36TSR and the distinction between observation and identificationNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?48:53Japanese carriers support attrition before decisive battleNotable Point
- 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
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:20Crewed warships as cruisers and uncrewed escortsQ&A
- Momi to Kagero - The Story of the Japanese 1920s & 1930s Destroyer Program41:54When inherited doctrine becomes an obstacleNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:43:48Frigates, destroyers and aircraft-style role designationsQ&A
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...1:28:33Harbour-strike doctrine and aerial torpedo entryNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam43:36Why frigate specifications need a mission contextChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam1:30:00Comparing naval designs in their own contextNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?7:59From screening lance to convoy shieldChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?29:17Convergent Italian destroyer developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:51:27Reading exercise manuals as historical evidenceNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers26:55Porter turned the destroyer leader into a scouting weaponChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers44:55Mahan's launcher layout allowed an eight-plus-four torpedo attackNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:27:59Somers concentrated twelve torpedoes in one salvoNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:38Why Britain and Japan pursued night fighting for different reasonsNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class6:44An escort that can delay a stronger enemyNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class9:55Why Alaska is a large cruiserNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class56:11The US Navy Scouting Force doctrineChapter
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class1:01:33A carrier-large-cruiser command pairNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class1:03:53New Pacific escorts release older cruisers for Atlantic patrolsNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class1:07:16How Alaska escorts change prewar carrier riskNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class1:16:22Why equal losses can favour the larger fleetNotable Point
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class1:20:30A postwar carrier and cruiser pairingNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live31:37Japanese attrition doctrine and the cost of holding islandsNotable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:20:47Integrating foreign ships in a surviving British EmpireQ&A
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars27:05Interwar doctrine and dispersed naval forcesChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:15:20Three years barely changes naval high commandQ&A
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?4:50Why destroyers grew beyond torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?9:15Why defence planning needs an insurance policyNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...17:36Exercises helped define what the new destroyers should doNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:26Escorts, fleet screens, and a cruiser's delaying roleNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?40:51No Mers-el-Kébir and a larger Taranto strikeNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?58:40More Atlantic capital ships against German raidersChapter
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?1:01:36Fast ships find the fight and heavy ships close inNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)56:02Three navies began with three different problemsChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)59:28Sims linked officer education to the public case for sea powerNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:39:37Doctrine fails when experts assume their own knowledgeNotable Point
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:54:49Japanese task forces served an attrition strategyChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s6:41Modern destroyer labels, roles, and relative capabilityNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s20:58French battleships and Italian torpedo prioritiesNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s24:21Gun arcs and the torpedo-boat destroyer problemNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s25:11First World War lessons and destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s37:49Adriatic experience and Mediterranean destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s55:50Force structure when mass cannot replace qualityNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s56:30Spica and the persistence of torpedo-boat rolesNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:08:39Why Italian ships remained torpedo-boat destroyersNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:54:46Hybrid Navy doctrine could be integrated flotilla warfare or a Jeune École gambleQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:07Why separating radar and missile ships can create a dependencyNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:30Distributed dependencies, just-in-time logistics, and lost redundancyQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:38Why claims of unprecedented technology can obscure historical lessonsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:28The risks of assuming perfect weapons performance and wars of choiceNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:27Carrier development as a technology-doctrine-strategy cycleQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:35Jutland produced night-fighting frustration more than fearQ&A
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy1:03:28Morale, communication, and democratic naval leadershipChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?49:01Task-group frigates and independent pickets need different designsNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:07:55Point defence, area air warfare, and the meaning of FFGNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:11:08Supporting an Aegis air battle and leading oneNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...0:00Ship design balances memory, strategy, and technologyChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...0:52Why British cruisers carried ASDICNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...2:35National survivability choices complicate an enemy's attackNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...4:04A broad fleet complicates an opponent's prioritiesNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...20:06Carrier air groups balance concentrated strikes and sustained fightingNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...23:50Black Sea lessons need geographic translationNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet27:14Submarines deny the sea while surface ships exercise controlChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet48:48A balanced fleet rejects small-ship-only doctrineNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI26:42Destroyer language and torpedo-boat prioritiesNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI31:02Hit-and-run attacks versus longer screening fightsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...24:01Maneuvering tests and survivabilityNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...50:04Weapons testing after JutlandNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!17:03Crew roles balance aircraft safety and ASW mission controlNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!29:12Paired and three-aircraft tactics divide ASW detection from attackChapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!39:17Wartime rules make helicopter ASW more aggressiveNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI11:02Claymore and Branlebas expose Jeune Ecole legacyChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI16:11Flotilla defence still requires a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI20:29Infrastructure limits procurement doctrineNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...2:55:23Post-Cold War expectations and procurement urgencyNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:17:20Uncrewed vessels move from demonstrations to force packagesNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:19:35Frigate-led uncrewed groups and future fleet commandersNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)9:39Technology without doctrine is not enoughNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development0:00Destroyers remain both shield and spearChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:14The Whitehead torpedo tests the balanced-fleet ideaNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development5:51Quick-firing guns establish layered fleet defenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development19:45World War I reorganizes destroyers for fleet warChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development22:09Why build destroyers instead of torpedo-boat leaders?Q&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development24:45Paired destroyers create mutual support and torpedo trapsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development29:36Destroyer command creates the interwar admiral pipelineNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development42:50Destroyer pickets extend reconnaissance and air defenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development44:44Exercise incentives distort destroyer air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development50:46Tribal-class guns support night torpedo attacksChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development56:52Daring-class destroyers become cruiser substitutesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development59:39Guns and VLS should be complementary magazinesNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes5:16Doctrine, design evidence, and learning from RajputNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:10:20A hybrid navy uses uncrewed escorts around crewed warshipsChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:48:44Royal Navy type numbers preserve role-based bandsQ&A
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII10:45Wrangel and Wachmeister reserve a sixth torpedo for the turn awayChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII19:30Judge destroyers against national needsNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII37:59Göteborg salvos reserve torpedoes to catch an evasive targetNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:00Coral Sea night surface action counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:19How the 1914 cruiser losses hardened Royal Navy zigzag doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart10:30Battlecruisers as the high end of Jeune Ecole doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships13:44Invincible speed margins and battlecruiser controlQ&A
- Bruships23:18Steam power before gunpowder and ramming tacticsQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08Cavalry doctrine translated to naval combatQ&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?20:18A task-force war rewards modern ships that can deploy widelyNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?8:25Early success evading aircraft feeds later overconfidenceNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:05:34Gallipoli still required ships and troops to arrive togetherNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:15:45Even a failed raid transforms harbor defenseNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:19:47A successful carrier raid still leaves a role for capital shipsNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI13:13Nembo and Morin's operational theoryChapter
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...12:47Destroyer command, delegated initiative, and decision speedChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...1:10:45Why Dogger Bank is the counterfactual's firmest battleChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?9:42Peer air defense must face layered threatsNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?40:24Combat-system diversity creates dilemmasNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?12:17Harmsen's staff, salvage, and ship commandsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?15:50Why the small Dutch Navy trained adaptable officersNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?23:29Dutch crews as doctrine translatorsChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?24:31Why Allied anti-aircraft formations needed different spacingNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?33:27Destroyers as the fleet's shield and spearNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?34:56S-class ships and postwar Dutch lessonsChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)13:39Harwich Force and destroyer professionalismNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)21:02Cunningham, the A-to-K line, and interwar destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)28:46How the A-to-K scouting line screened a fleetQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)54:37Donald Macintyre and Walker's ASW command styleNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII2:42Contre-torpilleurs in task-group doctrineNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII33:53How naval treaties pushed destroyers toward cruiser rolesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII36:48Why the Bourrasque class's ordinary utility matteredNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII1:00:00Could a larger Free French fleet have supported itself?Notable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:31A French fleet built against Jeune École ideasQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....42:20Destroyers become independent diplomatic and combat assetsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....4:21Benchmark ships frame the ideal destroyerNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....6:05National roles shape destroyer designNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...0:14Why destroyers were a difficult imperial investmentChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...17:24Austria-Hungary was an intermittent entrant in the qualitative naval raceNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...27:32At Durazzo, minefields turned a raid into a rescue problemChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...30:37Why Durazzo resists a simple victory or defeat labelNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...33:45Helgoland used manoeuvre and darkness to escape the Allied pursuitNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...40:46Adriatic confinement weakened the case for naval fundingChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...43:35Would more Tatras and earlier destroyer investment change the Adriatic war?Q&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:40Why superfiring turrets offer no certain escape at JutlandQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)34:50What battlecruisers were meant to do at JutlandNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)37:22Judge Type 31 against its intended roleNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)48:48Japan could shift fleet scouting onto small carriersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:21:51More carrier exercises could improve later decisionsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:30:06Would navies trade battleships for 35,000-ton carriers in 1922?Q&A
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- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?29:09Larger carriers balance air groups, protection, and survivabilityNotable 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?49:13Destroyers divide into leaders, fleet ships, and escortsChapter
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:04:26Submarine range could revive the cruiser-submarine ideaChapter
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:07:28Submarine size follows oceanic and shallow-water commitmentsNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:08:53Dedicated escorts free destroyers for fleet dutiesNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor3:41Hosho experiments give way to Akagi and Kaga's larger air groupsChapter
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor44:09Aircraft and submarines make forward attrition practicalNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be22:41Three fleets, one coast, and an evolving bastion doctrineNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be54:43Type 052B, 052C, and 051C test the route to sea controlChapter
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:58Why uncrewed reconnaissance does not settle the patrol-ship requirementNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet54:48Sunburn connects anti-ship strike to nuclear escalationNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:30Why Japanese battleships stay north in an early-war scenarioQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?2:45Jutland's legacy gives the Royal Navy a night-strike optionNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?34:27Air-support language and fleet air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:02:31The carrier is coming, but the battleship is at its peakNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...0:00Why destroyer fighting edge fades in peacetimeChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...3:42Harwich Force turns aggression into a methodChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...24:08Effective destroyers need officers, doctrine, and shipsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...45:05Night exercises build delegated destroyer commandChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...46:19The war manual puts torpedo attack firstNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...46:45Global commitments make local destroyer dominance essentialNotable 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...1:10:58Torpedo priority shapes destroyer layout and gun supportNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:13:40Flotilla tactics turn torpedo numbers into a weaponNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:20:05Ideal mass attack meets exercise realityNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:30Finding reliable studies of Spanish naval doctrineQ&A
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?42:24Escort-carrier thinking before the Second World WarNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?48:22Serial small carriers accelerate doctrine and designChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:06:43Why Kaga's battleship hull weakens Japanese carrier doctrineChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global22:52Mahan and Sims argued beyond a battleship-only fleetChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global55:37A deep destroyer reserve made aggressive training affordableNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global56:44Sims learned destroyer command culture from Lewis BaylyChapter
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:42Virginia Block V and the risk of confusing submarine rolesNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:00Carrier early warning before the Philippine SeaQ&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202645:01The Adriatic and Harwich taught different destroyer lessonsNotable Point
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:46Why warship types disappear and sometimes returnQ&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...1:01:04Why Germany kept the torpedo-boat identityNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!25:53Destroyer history through national design philosophiesNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...41:17Japanese cruiser scouts find targets without exposing carriersChapter
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...43:53Japan seeks a decisive battle that can secure a negotiated peaceNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...50:17Kantai Kessen concludes Japan's attrition campaignNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:26:33How Jutland shaped the Royal Navy's interwar night-fighting emphasisNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:58:18Glorious and the gap between escort doctrine and the ships actually presentNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)22:00Compare ships through their task-group rolesNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)30:22Missile doctrine and the return of naval gunfireChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:03:19Missile navies repeat part of the Jeune École patternQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:04:16Will uncrewed craft create a new Jeune École?Q&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:56:11Post-Cold War ships trade narrow efficiency for breadthQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:16Courageous exposed by fleet-carrier ASW doctrineQ&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:54:28The cost of missing Jutland's lessonsNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:08:28Jutland paired battlecruiser misuse with continued sea controlQ&A
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...1:13:53Jutland makes night aviation a British priorityChapter
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers40:23Japan's attrition plan depended on the enemy cooperatingNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:26:34Changing commanders disrupt PLAN submarine training prioritiesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships1:42Why G3 and Iowa belong in different categoriesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships4:32Why Tiger followed a different battlecruiser design pathNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships6:11Why fast battleships work as ambush predatorsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships11:07Why every capital-ship design is a compromiseNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships14:54Battlecruisers at Jutland: role versus misuseQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships15:32Were British battlecruisers designed to fight in the battle line?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:05:18The fatal assumption that darkness protected the convoyNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida4:48:31The Royal Navy's shift toward task groupsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:21:38The pre-1914 failure to plan merchant-shipping protectionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:28:26French pre-dreadnoughts without the Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:42:07Judging the Capitani Romani by how they were deployedNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:04:55How Jeune École theory distorted French fleet developmentQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:04:08Aircraft turn Fisher's speed doctrine into long-range firepowerNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:16:27Exercises can reward the wrong ships and tacticsNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:41:10When would carriers finally displace battleships?Q&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)3:03:55Would a 1950s naval war expose untested technology?Q&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:54Doctrine, range, and the shells actually availableQ&A
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age32:04Falklands combat exposed the limits of missile exercisesNotable Point
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships26:19Why France built the Danton class after DreadnoughtChapter
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?0:00Leyte Gulf as a Japanese operational gambleChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?26:11Midway's broken contact and the shadowing problemChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?29:23The cost of uncoordinated Midway air attacksChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:10Modern frigates judged against national doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:44Why Japan's planned 28 light cruisers would have limited wartime valueQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:55Why Japanese naval wargaming needed to confront failureNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:59The nineteenth century's largest naval missed opportunitiesQ&A
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why0:00Why destroyer-gun choices reveal doctrineChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why41:41How peacetime exercises distorted destroyer air defenseNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:15:23Germany's 127 mm gun and the deployment gapChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:20:26Japan's 127 mm guns and attrition doctrineChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:40:50What large destroyers were expected to do for different naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:00Why Martlet deliveries did not weaken the US NavyQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:12What Ukraine suggests about preparing navies for high-intensity warQ&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?5:18French dreadnought design met the limits of its shipyardsChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?56:46Vanguard and F3 expose competing definitions of fast battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:24How calling battlecruisers frigates might affect their useNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:48Navies lose aircraft carriers and the doctrine behind themQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:54Can seaplanes fill the gaps left by vanished carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:35:46Should a station cruiser carry depth charges?Notable Point
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy3:10Three ways navies preserve institutional memoryNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:05:30Hornby rejected a single prescribed battle formationNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:09Were Royal Navy warships undergunned?Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:39Why scouting-force doctrine exposed uneven US officer preparationQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:59Yamato, Montana, Lion, and the super-battleship labelQ&A
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?1:01:42An invasion fleet sacrifices freedom to maneuverNotable Point
- Battle of Dornach(1499)16:12How Swiss pike warfare informed naval boardingNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:13Political and technical reasons for a cruiser-only Royal NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:40Classifying cruisers and battleships in science fictionQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:31How fictional fleet economics shape ship classesNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:30A role-based scheme for fictional cruiser namesNotable Point
- Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)1:39Did Ukraine change the lessons of the Falklands War?Q&A
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...25:59Tsushima encouraged a uniform 21-knot battle lineNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...1:02:09The Bellerophons proved the dreadnought squadron conceptNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...1:04:11Why the battle line gave way to the modern task forceNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...46:31Why one ship can have an outsized impactNotable Point
- Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat25:49Why a heavy fighter expands the carrier's defensive bubbleNotable Point
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:19Why Japanese submarines achieved less commerce destructionQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?0:00Pom-pom or Bofors depends on the air threatChapter
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?8:35Should a navy choose pom-pom or Bofors?Q&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?23:37Range, volume of fire, and mount layout create competing choicesChapter
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?40:45Ammunition outfits reveal the air war a ship expectedNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?1:20:45Judge weapons by the metrics that matter in combatNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:58:37Why the Royal Navy stopped with the Indefatigable classNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:13:15Why better briefing could keep battlecruisers out of the battle lineQ&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...52:34How did Napoleon apply army methods to naval warfare?Q&A
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:30:48Leaving Zuikaku behind while breaking doctrine elsewhereChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:48:13Nagumo's rearming cycle cost the strike windowChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:05:59Could Zuikaku have served as a fighter carrier?Q&A
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:13:10Midway's leadership lessons: information, timing, and doctrineChapter
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:52:48Which minor navy had the strongest ASW doctrine?Q&A
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!1:46Sea control versus maritime transport in the Imjin WarChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!31:05Japanese ships optimized for transport and boardingChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!40:30Korean coastal warships turn cannon into a force multiplierChapter
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)2:05:47Peter's surviving battle order becomes a defence against prosecutionNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:51:31Japan's decisive-battle lesson and its dangersChapter
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?0:00Dating the AA-cruiser idea before a hull existedNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?16:17Why 6-inch guns could win a visual cruiser engagementNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?18:32A screening cruiser had to blunt the attackNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?29:13Why Didos carried ASDIC without becoming submarine huntersNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?1:00:59How fighters and AA guns broke up an incoming raidNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List25:51The screen's duty to absorb attacks meant for capital shipsNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?19:05Torpedo expertise won Scheer Tirpitz's backingChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?22:51Germany lacked a developed fallback strategyNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:13:39Grand Fleet standing orders explain the torpedo responseNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic47:35An unprecedented fleet that had to move as oneChapter
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership37:26The Jeune École legacy compounds French policy instabilityNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?1:58:42Cape Matapan realized the prewar battle planNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:23The Jeune École detour and France's dreadnought lagNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?50:03Japan's choice: attack the base or hunt the fleetNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?50:48How First World War frustrations shaped fleet doctrineNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?28:23Royal Navy cruisers carried anti-submarine lessons into battleNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?54:34A sensible fleet outlived its planners' understandingNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...31:27Why China may reject Russia's Leader destroyer designsQ&A
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer39:20The box maneuver and coordinated torpedo pressureNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:17:37The Fourth Flotilla rehearses anti-raider tacticsChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:22:39Piorun's attack belonged to a coordinated destroyer operationNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:11:47Tovey saves fuel while destroyers contain Bismarck overnightNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:18:13Concentrating every available gun on BismarckNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!3:18:13Did destroyers prefer capturing enemy ships?Q&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:31:19Keeping French battleship construction continuousQ&A
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?50:40Henderson likely prevents Courageous hunting submarinesChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class56:22Torpedo investment reveals continuity in Japanese naval doctrineNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:23:52Ark Royal's strike role and Illustrious's fleet supportNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z23:47Tom Phillips, doctrine, and layered fleet air defenseChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?34:53How carrier fighters were meant to break up an air strikeChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?1:02:35Why armored carriers had to keep operating after hitsNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:49The Marceau class and France's return to capital-ship constructionNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?43:27Tender patrols could release fleet carriers for primary dutiesNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:31How plausible are Babylon 5's Earth Alliance warships?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:11Why Japanese carriers relied on cruiser scoutsQ&A
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...58:02Why the author of doctrine could also discard itNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:03Why Francesco Caracciolo is the 1910s foreign-design choiceNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:39:56British continuous carrier operations and American concentrated strikesNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'45:39Plymouth, the weather gauge, and opposing battle doctrinesChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'52:49Drake's missing lantern and the Rosario prizeNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:09:16At Gravelines, English gunnery exploits Spanish doctrineChapter
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:55Why Japanese damage control lagged in World War IIQ&A
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...24:29When naval competition still included shared ideasNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:57:12Fast battleships and battlecruisers have different speed jobsNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?0:00Jeune École as a warning against one-technology fleetsChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?7:24Shared weapons undercut the small-ship advantageNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?15:02Offset strategies need defined missions and countersNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:17:20Doctrine becomes destructive when treated as an absoluteNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:18:41National pride and learning from other countriesNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:23:48Theodore Ropp and the continuing debate over the Jeune ÉcoleNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:45:01Why major ship classifications usually change after warQ&A
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:06:47British cruiser doctrine rewarded volume of fire and disciplined adaptationChapter
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:54:06The new Jeune École and claims for drone warfareQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:57:42Why future obsolescence does not justify retiring useful ships nowNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:22:27Why riverine warfare reverses familiar naval assumptionsChapter
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?53:32Fast capital ships and carriers could revive the Royal Navy's flying squadronChapter
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?55:35A flying squadron could bring a carrier command appointment forwardNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 549:21Unfinished wartime problems shaped later naval capabilitiesNotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?7:02Why German submarine minelaying receded after World War INotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?10:02Submarines as mobile minefieldsNotable Point
- Battle of Elli2:55:35Why Elli and Lemnos had little influence on World War INotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview9:47Why early submarine and aircraft judgments need period contextNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview23:06Jellicoe, Henderson, and the return to convoyNotable Point
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians27:33Romans treated fleets as part of one military systemNotable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:45:43Why the Royal Navy called Vanguard a fully armored battlecruiserQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:15:38Jellicoe's Queen Elizabeth concept as the fleet's anvilNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:20:49Why Italy built so many torpedo-cruiser classesQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:32:06How to write a naval-policy alternate historyQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/415:33How First World War failures shaped Royal Navy preparationNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/437:55St Nazaire followed a long Royal Navy port-attack traditionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:08:17Japanese battleships and the doctrine behind their sizeNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/41:41:04Captain Creswell and the Tribal class's esprit de corpsQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:00:25Using anti-submarine expertise to design a harder targetNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:22:47Beatty, staff work, and signalling at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:15:46Why a Tromp-style hybrid solved the wrong Royal Navy problemQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:43:02A 1980s naval war teaches only through its specific lossesQ&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:43:56The German plan depended on defeating the Royal Navy in detailNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!19:17Early theorists shape the language of later doctrineNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!27:57First rates belonged at the fleet's coreNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!45:50Cold War prestige versus specialized warshipsNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:10:09The cruiser-and-destroyer carrier screenNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:23:19How a carrier escort formation was sizedNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s39:03A doctrine constrained by BéarnNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s47:09Carriers and battleships as complementary systemsNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s53:33French naval aviation as an unfinished doctrineNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII54:37American task forces versus Japanese dispersalNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?1:12:42Why the 28-knot cruiser line mattersNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons0:00The recurring problem behind Soviet naval aviationChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons19:54Layered defence and the fight to control aircraftChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons37:25Why Soviet strike density rose toward the coastNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:41:33The enduring logic: see first, strike at rangeChapter
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut14:01Why carrier defence can begin far from homeNotable Point
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut16:59Carrier aviation for Soviet bastion defenceChapter
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut48:29Carrier capability must be judged against the missionNotable Point
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut49:17From Soviet bastions to China's island-chain problemChapter
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut1:09:11The Soviet Union's difficult carrier-aviation learning curveNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:22:45American battlecruisers as cruiser-killersQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:12:04When carriers truly displace battleshipsQ&A
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin44:27Why correct doctrine can still produce no resultNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin50:49Why peacetime exercises can mislead force designNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin57:54Using Second World War carrier lessons with careChapter
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:14:51Comparing Jutland with Guadalcanal night battlesQ&A
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:09:33Japan's expansion outpaces its ability to sustain itChapter
- War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion49:49War data corrects exercise false positivesNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier25:43Japan: qualitative superiority versus shipyard bottlenecksChapter
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!0:01Why Japanese naval aviation cannot be read through a US templateChapter
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!5:18Three naval powers, three strategic problemsNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!53:55Aircraft quality depended on doctrinal fitNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!56:10Defence policy, doctrine, and qualitative deterrenceNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!56:57How imperial defence policy became a recurring planning instrumentNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!1:25:16A defensively offensive doctrine and Japan's best bad optionNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!50:35Strike, fleet, cruiser, and escort carrier rolesChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!53:09British carrier doctrine for persistent air threats and night battleNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 548:32War in China validates the carrier fighterNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff18:50Royal Navy carrier officers and aviation doctrineQ&A
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff22:36Carrier damage control and the value of mixed specialismsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff24:21Observer corps careers and limits on aviation trainingNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff28:52Henderson, Goodall, and a fleet sustainable far from BritainNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?1:36Escort carriers were planned before the emergencyNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?10:22Hermes filled the cruiser-carrier middle groundNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:34:52Doctrine change and carrier-era speedQ&A
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:20:40Togo's Tsushima doctrine could keep battlecruisers on the wingNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:45:29Close fighting could accelerate fast-battleship developmentNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19123:12Japanese naval aviation before the modelsChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191236:31Air groups over Western squadronsNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191252:58Reconnaissance priority encoded in unit numbersNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191254:16Combat experience and fighter interestChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:05:13An indigenous structure defies Western equivalentsChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:14:27Wartime reorganization from kokutai to squadronsChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:20:11The near loss of Japanese carrier fightersNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:22Why carrier damage control is differentChapter
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right12:53Courageous and damage prevention through escort doctrineNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right22:27Low-end escort mass must exist before warNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right25:43Glorious and the consequences of inadequate escortNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right46:53Preventing damage and maintaining the systems needed to survive itNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right54:13Rapid Fleet Air Arm expansion diluted squadron experienceNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:28:08Lexington's torpedo attack and the timing of defensive killsNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:11:12The Jeune Ecole's torpedo strategy meets quick-firing gunsNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:24:32Enterprise and keeping fighters out of the AA engagement zoneNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:34:04Wasp and the logic of a large submarine torpedo salvoNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:53:56Santa Cruz and the time needed to launch a carrier strikeNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:58:18Strike doctrine competed with fighter-control trainingNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:16:34Why written counter-flooding doctrine could lose to learned instinctNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:33:24Teaching carrier captains why counter-flooding comes firstNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 52:30Patrol rather than reconnaissanceNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 56:13Shipborne overwatch and repeated patrolNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 546:46A patrol lesson for uncrewed aviationNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:32:54Why some Japanese carrier aircraft had folding wingsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:35:11Armoured carriers against land-based air powerNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:37:09When exercises validate the wrong design choicesNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines0:26Planned-war carriers after the treaty systemChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines6:40Shokaku's speed, flight deck, and air groupChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines8:04Japanese attrition and ambush before decisive battleNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines15:21Shokaku scarcity and the Yamato resource tradeoffNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines18:00Pacific alpha-strike logicNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines20:57Implacable class and the Royal Navy compromiseChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines41:06Implacable's beacons and floats for night recoveryNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines46:32Essex survivors and the meaning of a modern carrierNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines48:46Which carrier is better depends on doctrineNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines50:27Essex class mass production and deck-load strikeChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines53:58Pearl Harbor as an ambush before the Essex buildupNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:14:15Taiho and the limits of improving one carrierQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:03:33Why numbers of Hermes-sized carriers would not suit British doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:43:28An experimental Soviet carrier for Pacific doctrineQ&A
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class0:48Shokaku as an expression of Japanese carrier doctrineChapter
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class3:19A context-first method for judging naval doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class6:13Beyond a one-note decisive-battle doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class7:47Why naval doctrine cannot be reduced to one sloganNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class22:49Trading cruiser guns for carrier protectionNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class50:47Elite pilot selection for a short warNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:05:12Not big enough for the doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:11:57Yamato's 18-inch guns as a deterrent design analogyNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:13:44Design compromises reveal what a navy valuesChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!43:46Japanese carrier doctrine in the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:00:12Why naval doctrine must fit geostrategyNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:21:06One command for US Pacific submarinesQ&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests0:00Mitchell's certainty and the 1921 testsChapter
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests29:49Postwar Air Service politics and naval aviationChapter
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests35:30Four rival Navy aviation visions united against MitchellChapter
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests56:24Project B hardened air-power history into rival campsNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests59:22Ostfriesland and the limits of the resultNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests1:06:28Lost damage data and Army-Navy distrustNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests1:23:56Mitchell's legacy: distrust or level-bombing doctrine?Notable Point
- Regia Aeronautica's Mainstay: Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 415:54Vitals, range, and the Fulmar comparisonChapter
- Regia Aeronautica's Mainstay: Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 436:08Aerosilurante doctrine and Royal Navy targetsNotable Point
- Regia Aeronautica's Mainstay: Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 440:14Strike results versus harder targetsNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered57:13Yonai, Yamamoto, and IJN aviation trainingNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:52:07IJN first-strike doctrine and late-war aircraft successorsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:08:26What the Royal Navy would learn even from a decisive Jutland victoryQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:35:41The Invincible class was outside its intended Jutland roleQ&A
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!36:30Henderson's large-destroyer opportunityNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?8:10Billy Mitchell and the rules of the 1921 testsChapter
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?12:23Carrier counterfactuals depend on aircraft, crews, and rival responsesNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?13:01Mitchell's Hawaii claims and the limits of prophetic reputationNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?26:26Air power as an evolution in combined armsNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?33:22Professional dissent still requires honest evidenceNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?1:13:15The independent air force argument and its limitsNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:06:52Moffett's naval aviation work predates Mitchell's publicity victoryNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:20:30Army-Navy mistrust and missed joint exercisesNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:25:13Heavy bombs against maneuvering and defended shipsNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement59:54Giving procurement programs time to workNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?2:22Treaty conversion preserves the Lexingtons' Pacific missionChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?8:44Lexington began as a battlecruiser for information warfareChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?16:41Sims turns the scouting role into a carrier problemNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?32:52Fleet Problems IX and X reveal carrier reach and vulnerabilityChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?35:43Fleet problems make the carrier a strike weaponChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?39:07Competitive fleet exercises need freedom and real incentivesNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?1:03:17The Lexington model points toward the modern carrierChapter
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote17:00Destroyer aggression in cruiser commandQ&A
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion4:42Carrier air groups keep the same core jobsChapter
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion8:16Gun range, cost and the carrier's capital-ship roleChapter
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion44:30Mission count sets the air group size problemNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion47:25Combat aircraft blocks and the smaller early-warning detachmentNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 312:33Power-to-weight as a naval-aircraft yardstickNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 327:42Climb performance meets a changing interception problemChapter
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 335:17Naval aviation kept its purpose while technology changed the methodChapter
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 339:40A 1944 war start changes the remembered aircraftNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193848:53Four-inch AA cruisers on solitary convoy dutyNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:05:33Henderson's large-destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:17:39Crewing a cruiser-destroyer hybridQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:53:06How to war-game ships that do not yet existQ&A
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion0:49Carrier design could lag behind carrier doctrineChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion11:52Battlecarriers had to justify combining two fleet rolesNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion17:26British conversions develop night flying for worldwide operationsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion23:53Lexington and Ranger reverse early expectationsChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion24:24Lexington's eight-inch guns and the case for escortsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion28:38British operating evidence challenges the flush-deck carrierNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion45:12Ranger exposes infrastructure and innovation limitsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion49:24Yorktown embodies the US alpha-strike doctrineChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion52:20Yorktown and Midway express doctrine, Essex emphasizes rapid constructionNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion54:58Interwar carrier raids rehearse attacks on ships in harborNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion56:57Sōryū and Hiryū test a paired-carrier island arrangementNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:03:03British carriers sustain combat air patrol near enemy airfieldsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:23:32Larger carrier allowances could reduce design compromisesNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:28:09An early treaty collapse could permit a larger British carrierNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!9:38Kantai Kessen and expected American behaviorQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!13:39Mahan and Corbett beyond the usual labelsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!25:50Deck and hangar capacity in US carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!29:03Why staff work mattered before 1914Chapter
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!41:51Why joint plans cannot be assigned to another serviceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:53:32Heavy cruisers as a second line behind battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:00:03Fleet carriers and cruiser carriersQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:15:03Exercise lessons, AA defense, and Force ZQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:28:11Why the US and Japan wanted large carriersQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:33:18If the first carrier battle became a night gunfightQ&A
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast2:08Triton and the radar-picket submarine problemChapter
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast16:43Airborne early warning overtakes the SSRN ideaNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 101:22:0164s, specialization, and fleet sizeNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...9:56Carrier air group evolution follows changing jobsChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...24:28Conflict management joins deterrence, presence, and communicationChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:02:01Carrier size follows mission mathChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:16:14Reconnaissance moves into multi-role aircraftChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:08:30Airborne early warning expands the carrier's sensor horizonNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems0:00US naval aviation contained several overlapping doctrinesNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems9:30Sims turns carriers into offensive weaponsChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems16:03Fleet Problems simulate carriers before carriers arriveNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems21:02Dive bombers help torpedo aircraft reach battleshipsNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems24:49Reeves turns war-game ideas into deck practiceChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems31:03Moffett builds the personnel system behind carrier doctrineChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems48:18Lexington and Saratoga prove battle and raiding doctrineChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems59:32Reeves makes unanswered questions a doctrinal strengthNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:04:23Treaty limits collide with large-carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:08:33Escort carriers answer wartime necessityNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:09:57Carrier mobility demands new cruisers and destroyersNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:18:47Carrier exercises expose first-blow and Pearl Harbor risksNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:29:41Yorktown turns first-strike doctrine into ship designChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:34:29Fleet Problems grow into realistic War Plan Orange rehearsalsChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:40:10Wargaming culture reinforces large US carriersChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:51:27Essex production scales the doctrine while exposing its limitsChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems2:04:01Night operations lose priority to strike volumeNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 213:44Airborne radar solves the carrier horizon problemNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 236:31A World War II Tracer would have reshaped naval air defenseNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 243:06A 1943 moving-target radar could have sharpened the horizonNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 245:15US naval aviation doctrine fused Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard experienceNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 246:48Observers preserved a distinct Royal Navy aviation traditionNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World6:12Interwar U.S. aviation doctrine divides by missionNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:29:24Specialist submarine lessons beyond radar picketsNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans23:26Graf Zepplinski becomes the Red Fleet's carrier schoolhouseChapter
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans29:00The first air group favors rugged, easy-to-fly aircraftNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans49:31Carrier aviation moves toward multi-role jets and AEWNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:20:42What escorts and doctrine support the Soviet carriers?Q&A
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!25:28Langley exercises make torpedo air attack a fleet problemNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!49:49Mahan and Corbett frame different carrier argumentsNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!51:20Hermes is a presence and information carrierChapter
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins45:44Guided-missile destroyer or frigate distinctionQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:46:17How the Russian Navy may absorb Ukraine-war lessonsQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:47:01A joint approach to GallipoliNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...1:54:45Kantai Kessen would not dictate a European naval warQ&A
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons32:19Why a carrier must fit its navy's own strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed33:08Torpedo testing behind Narvik reliabilityQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed51:57American night carrier doctrine in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:48:31IJN factionalism and weak operational supportQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier33:20From scouting platform to airborne command postChapter
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier53:08Launching and recovering parasite fightersNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:02:54What a qualified scouting success meantNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:40:44Why weather intelligence failed AkronChapter
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:10:03Why a fast battleship was feasible in 1914Q&A
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 132:38W.12 reconnaissance and mobile seaplane supportChapter
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 144:45W.19 long-range scouting and layered floatplane tacticsChapter
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist30:52Why the Fulmar needs a carrier-specific comparisonNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist32:42Why might a Fulmar make only one pass at an incoming raid?Q&A
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign30:45How fighting style shapes an entire fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:42:23How oversized guns can trap a cruiser between rolesQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built3:59:44Why anti-ship capability would not change Type 42 employmentQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:39:28Why cruiser gun caliber follows naval doctrineQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!25:12Gossip became intelligence and command across a global navyChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:19:42A specialized warship fails when the enemy refuses its preferred fightNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier9:43Would converting Renown and Repulse have changed British carrier doctrine?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier45:47Moffett, King, and the leadership models behind naval aviationChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:06:12From airship scout to airborne reconnaissance baseChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:39:56How Sparrowhawks launched and returned in flightChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:59:33Akron's qualified success in a difficult search exerciseNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:40:56West Coast scouting shows the airship's search reachChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers16:59Furious is redesigned for aviation before JutlandChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers55:53Hōshō reflects an early support-carrier doctrineChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:16:46Carrier doctrine had to be learned at seaNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:22:50Cradock and the doctrinal pressure not to withdrawNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?33:33Why cruisers appear so often in science fictionQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:12:42When a cruiser becomes an aircraft carrierQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:56:10A tactical line is different from a concentrated battle fleetQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:35:33Why task forces displaced the single fleet battleQ&A
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 19381:27What each navy wanted in 1938Chapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193810:46Reading warship design as evidence of naval prioritiesChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193833:26Japanese deterrent firepower against industrial inferiorityChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193837:08Attrition doctrine and Kantai KessenChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193859:48Applying the method to Star Trek ship designNotable Point
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 1056:12The Helldiver matured as dive bombing lost its placeChapter
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 1058:54How Fleet Air Arm priorities changed by 1943Notable Point
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 101:04:31Why specialized dive bombing declinedChapter
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 101:08:56The Helldiver's procurement lessonChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation3:02Why German naval aviation struggled for institutional supportChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation6:52Tirpitz's risk fleet and Zeppelins shared a paper advantageNotable Point
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation12:20Zeppelin promise meets the limits of fleet coordinationNotable Point
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation27:12Seaplane-tender design points to reconnaissance doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:48:25The Channel Fleet's sacrificial delay missionQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:18:10What a Long Lance and Mark 14 swap reveals about doctrineQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?18:51What John Fisher might make of a Star DestroyerQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?27:28Turning 1938 naval design cultures into Star DestroyersChapter
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered25:34Why flank speed means more than full speedQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:18:25The County class works better in Royal Navy termsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:47:49Modern destroyers and frigates inherited cruiser missionsQ&A
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines4:31Courageous, Glorious, and the cost of misusing carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines20:16Fleet Air Arm control and the observer-led view of air powerChapter
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines31:32Combat air patrol endurance and layered fleet defenceChapter
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines44:24Why a Fulmar was not meant to be a naval SpitfireNotable Point
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines46:33Bill Lucy's Skua victories and the limits of paper performanceNotable Point
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines47:59Fulmar performance, armament, and the Taranto flare planChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:26:06Defensive doctrine favors battleships and destroyers over cruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:29:28Would a Soviet carrier enable later-style amphibious warfare?Q&A
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...0:11Science fiction as a test bed for future naval problemsNotable Point
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...3:30Why warship definitions should follow roles, not rangesChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:05:32Why did Japan favor torpedoes before gunfire at night?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:15:09Blackett Strait signals a shift in control of the nightNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:19:54Was U.S. Navy night fighting inherently inferior?Q&A
- The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War59:45Combat experience can teach the wrong lessonChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:32:43Why cruiser missions matter more than a 10-inch gun ruleQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!1:24:15The reliable pikeman of the battle lineNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction19:09Why naval definitions change with the threatChapter
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction2:20:39Ark Royal and the danger of solo carrier missionsChapter
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:05:15Why missiles and drones do not make surface ships obsoleteQ&A
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers39:21Macchi M.18s anchor a familiar aviation systemChapter
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered15:27Nelson and Rodney as the wrong ships for a mobile fleetQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:28:18Why aircraft carriers made new battlecruisers obsoleteQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:31:41Holland's sectional battle versus envelopmentQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:37:34British doctrine as a framework for adaptationNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:06:39Iowa's fast battle wing and Britain's mixed task forcesNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:25:40When Japan would recognize a larger County-class threatQ&A
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese2:04:44What if Japanese fast battleships caught a raid force?Notable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...23:35British cruiser development draws on several wartime forcesNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:56:17Secondary batteries stop screen breakthroughsQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:19:38Extra tonnage amplifies national cruiser doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...2:34:17Carriers already serve the decisive-battle strategyQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships54:14Modern task groups coordinate submarines at arm's lengthNotable Point
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:36:44Would an all-Tribal destroyer force help Britain in 1939?Q&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō22:06Kongō modernization points toward carrier task groupsNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers43:03Why navies trusted torpedo bombersQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:00:32Japan's independent submarine traditionQ&A
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes7:11Why older cruisers remained useful after the first battlecruiserQ&A
- Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 248:09Carriers offered reach while battleships still guaranteed forceNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 113:19Observers shaped Royal Navy aviation doctrineChapter
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 143:11Six-aircraft flights suited continuous early warningChapter
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response6:28How a 28-knot Warspite could reinforce carrier hunting groupsNotable Point
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike12:49Japanese doctrine beyond the decisive battleChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 29:12Battle-carrier proximity and escort protectionNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 211:50Aggression as Royal Navy doctrineChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 231:18Vian's willingness to risk the carrier forceChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 240:32Glorious, escorts, and missing air patrolsNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:01:56Eastern Fleet carrier doctrine in 1944Chapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:16:23Make-do-and-mend operational cultureChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:21:28Risking a carrier for total victory at CreteNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?20:20Japanese doctrine was a planning system, not one battle sloganNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?22:07Attrition before the decisive battleChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?25:25Didn't Pearl Harbor undermine Japan's attrition plan?Q&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 254:18Long command changed how officers used doctrineChapter
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out41:23G3 and Lexington were designed for different fleet jobsNotable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response2:17Courageous showed the cost of ignoring carrier ASW doctrineNotable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response26:30Matapan and Taranto turned Royal Navy exercises into combatNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?49:21Carrier losses reduced Britain's response depthNotable Point
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:42:20Why Vikramaditya was not the right starting point for KievQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:27:59Plunging shellfire and aerial attack stress the same protection problemNotable Point
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 95:14Battle cruisers, battlecruisers, and the capital-ship spectrumChapter
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 931:51Why Seydlitz's G6 and G7 torpedoes lagged behind her gunsNotable Point
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 947:02German battlecruisers as age-of-sail third ratesNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response24:20Did German battlecruisers point toward fast battleships?Notable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 88:48Why armored cruisers entered Japan's battle lineNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 810:48Deterrence through a costly Six-Six Fleet fightNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:04:33Battlecruisers as a spectrum of fleet rolesNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...11:19Mackensen, Ersatz Yorck, and Germany's battlecruiser problemChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...28:27What completed Borodinos might have changedNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...56:47South Dakota and Lexington as a fleet systemChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:03:43Japan's Eight-Eight fleet meets yard capacityChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:36:24Montana, Iowa, and an enduring American doctrineChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:18:21Why battlecruisers do not lead the line of battleQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:22:12The Lexingtons as America's fast scouting forceNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:24:24Why America converts only one Lexington hullQ&A
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 129:17Operation Tunnel and the danger of predictable patrolsNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 133:11The Sept-Îles ambushChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 713:17Why firepower arithmetic cannot decide a naval battleNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 735:55Grand Fleet doctrine and war mobilisationChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty45:53Speed and the capital-ship spectrumNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 66:23Mountbatten's specialist-escort alternativeNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:28:07Would there still be a Jutland night action?Q&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
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs2:00:56Shared missions produced similar small-boat designsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre56:05Why Elco and Fairmile production totals are hard to compareNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre2:55:53Why motor torpedo boats became motor gun boatsChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre3:00:49How British small-boat operations influenced Soviet doctrineQ&A
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre3:02:38Were torpedo boats viable before the missile era?Q&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre20:06From giant-killers to coastal duellistsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre20:56Battleships once deployed their own torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:18:45Why Fleet Tactics remains worth readingNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!27:19The semi-submersible torpedo-cruiser as a warning signQ&A
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 329:00Caught between the battle line and the scouting roleNotable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 334:02The fast-battleship alternativeChapter
- CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 16:16CVA-58 depended on other carriers and a command shipNotable Point
- CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 17:16Fleet carriers, strike carriers, and the arsenal-ship comparisonNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?54:29Jutland's unequal influence on interwar fleet planningNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!42:44Where to start reading modern maritime strategyQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:45:55Warships whose strategic logic failedQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 946:06What a one-on-one simulation can and cannot showNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 811:22From a single battle line to mutually supporting task forcesChapter
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough5:11Recurring ship roles reward institutional memoryNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 611:28The Eight-Eight Fleet as a costly defensive targetChapter
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 625:19A visible fast battleship as deterrenceChapter
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties59:08How scarce assets shaped command riskNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties1:04:19From battle cruiser to fast battleshipNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 422:15Ignoring useful foreign naval solutionsNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 446:22Fleet effect matters more than one wonder shipNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer44:28Why close-in guns are the last layerNotable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 35:11Why the simulated battleship's defeats are evidence with limitsNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:22:55Tiger and the danger of battleship fightsChapter
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:25:26Formidable at Matapan and the limits of carrier gunsNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 28:56A battle line meets carrier task forcesChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 212:25How wartime experience rewrites doctrinal memoryNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 215:18The battle line as the Pacific anvilChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 245:13What a Montana-Yamato duel cannot showNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 259:10Why 28 knots made Montana expendableChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 259:44Carrier integration makes Force Z the exceptionNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 259:51A Lexington reconnaissance-fleet counterfactualNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:09:39Capital ships inside a whole fleet systemNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:24:42Design ships for the fight their weapons permitChapter
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:07:37How navies planned to employ battlecruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?4:12:43Lexington reconnaissance and the American battlefleet fistQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?4:18:29Why navies can publish doctrine without revealing executionQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years11:27Why naval design needs geostrategic contextChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?19:29Gunnery qualifications were not battleship partisanshipNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?35:20Naval technology changes by adaptation, not replacement overnightNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:37:02Does low fuel explain HMS Glorious sailing home?Q&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:19:26How carrier commands could shape doctrineQ&A
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &113:01A carrier core for the scouting forceNotable Point
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1126:07Battlecruiser ambitions behind the conversionChapter
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 912:00Ark Royal as the fleet's alpha-strike carrierChapter
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 916:19Henderson built doctrine as well as a carrierNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 926:33Why carrier damage control demanded early counterfloodingChapter
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 91:01:42Three carrier losses and ignored safeguardsNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda1:03:42Why Austria-Hungary did not simply copy German naval strategyNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 745:20Attrition frustrated British multi-carrier doctrineNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:36:11Friendly fire exposed an air-defence discipline gapNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:47:25Continental and blue-water carrier design pathsNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)15:10From intelligence reports to a tactical playbookNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)46:26The Beta search shapes a U-boat's escapeNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway4:43American war planning refused Japan's expected Pacific chargeNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 526:50The Tribal destroyer as a fleet's forward screenNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 531:01British night-fighting doctrine at Cape MatapanNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole1:36Jeune École as an offset strategyChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole37:20Convoy escort exposes torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole41:21A technical method is not a complete strategyChapter
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 348:22Why British carriers operated with fast capital shipsNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 20:19Why USS Texas mattered beyond battleship duelsChapter
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 29:47Range, magazine depth, and the limits of precision fireNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 21:15:56Magic Carpet, museum preservation, and a multi-role legacyChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet39:13Science fiction as a laboratory for naval doctrineNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:05:09Battleships as the fighting line's scarce coreChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:07:20Battlecruisers lose their speed advantage in the lineNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:54:44Multi-axis space combat requires wider firing arcsNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:04:57Why historical battlecruisers could exceed battleships in sizeNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:21:16Nova Cannon reach and the limits of void shieldsNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response10:56Are US treaty cruisers really cruisers?Q&A
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:34:11The legacy: fight, blockade, and confidenceChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon23:03Shell design lagged behind long-range battle doctrineNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon43:37The Goeben chase combines doctrine, speed, and coal qualityNotable Point
- How do Navies Learn from War21:36Why navies test lessons in fleet exercisesChapter
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:21:22Why Lion was not simply a British IowaQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:24:38The gun deficit behind German battlecruiser doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:32:46Cressy-class cruisers and German battlecruiser rolesQ&A
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 55:19Classifying battlecruisers by role and protectionNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power2:22Why a sheltered fleet can deny decisive battleNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power3:27Cromwell's army supplied a naval doctrine of decisionNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power4:30Commerce pressure could force the Dutch fleet to seaNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power8:18Commerce protection changes the fleet planChapter
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power51:29Concentration means rapid union, not one massChapter
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power54:55The Bismarck hunt as distributed concentrationNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power1:00:16Availability favors adaptable warshipsNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:41:54Destroyer screens and stopping torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:13:11George Clarke and Corbett's competing visions of national strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:18:16Corbett as a codifier of British maritime practiceNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:22:04When North Atlantic specialisation becomes a weaknessNotable Point
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 414:07From presence ship to fast battleshipChapter
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 423:06Pacific employment and fleet-support assumptionsChapter
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)2:17:30What if the Miyako Bay boarding had succeeded?Q&A
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation21:41Beyond the caricature of the battleship admiralNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation30:06Two different interwar debates about air powerChapter
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation46:33Integrated sensors are an old naval operating conceptNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation48:09Spotting admirals and strike admiralsChapter
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 317:43All-forward guns for manoeuvring ship actionsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 323:09A secondary battery powerful enough for cruisers and commerceNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 929:39Annual manoeuvres as doctrine laboratoriesChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?1:43:28Why wartime practice can exceed peacetime manualsNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:45:05Quick-firing guns answered torpedo boats - but bred confidenceNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:38:52Why costly Japanese destroyer resistance could distort the attrition pictureNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:57:47Fleet patrols and a concentrated carrier night strikeNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:37:27Why a fleet should keep weavingNotable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 716:55Why armour became a naval requirementNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:55:52Different Cold War navies, different investmentsQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:16:33Q&A: Why large-scale replenishment at sea lapsedQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:36:06Japanese I-class submarines in their own periodQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?23:48Long-range gunnery outgrew Tsushima-era ammunition doctrineNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:11:09Postwar design ripples from a different JutlandChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:13:57The Admiral class was designed for the next commerce warChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:16:12Night-fighting doctrine probably survives a shorter JutlandNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.2:43:25Were battlecruisers a failed type?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.3:22:16A shattered High Seas Fleet could rewrite Germany's naval lessonNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century0:08Why submarines change naval warfare into a three-dimensional contestChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century54:30Convoys, ASDIC, and the real objective of anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century2:05:12HMS Conqueror, Belgrano, and the cost of revealing a submarineNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century2:11:15Why neither century belongs to submarines aloneChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books18:51Why better navigation would not free sailing fleets from geographyQ&A
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!2:28Why did Royal Navy and US Navy carrier doctrine differ?Q&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas44:08Six-inch secondaries and three-inch anti-aircraft gunsNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:18:30Why six-inch secondaries transform the UAD fightChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:53:17Why one battle doctrine cannot fit every naval eraNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:02:48Could players choose the AI's attack doctrine?Q&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:04:12Judging submarines by doctrine and operating theaterQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?54:01Kantai kessen must adapt to the Royal NavyChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:15:23Night fighting and torpedo attack as the British edgeNotable Point
- Ship Design0:00Institutional memory behind ship shapeChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:23:17Japanese attrition doctrine meets operating limitsChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:32:49Yamato and the logic of big ships, big gunsQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:03:25British night doctrine shapes the fleet battleChapter
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class58:44Gunboats supporting torpedo-boat night attacksChapter
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:05:15From interwar destroyer doctrine to Cape BonNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response3:58Cruiser sonar and ASW role debateChapter
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?50:16Early fast task forces reshape naval aviationChapter
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?58:47Carrier groups open the war from three oceansChapter
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?1:03:40Pacific carrier teams require fast oilers and heavy escortsChapter
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?1:09:24Multi-carrier practice enlarges Taranto and Pacific cooperationChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response19:20Air Ministry politics and naval air powerChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response26:20Why naval aircraft needed more than raw horsepowerNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response45:48Multi-role twin-engine air groups and availabilityChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response52:31French offshore scouting and long-range strike doctrineQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century29:39Anson's threshold and the 74-gun balanceNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:10:17The third-rate balance at Cape St VincentChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:24:36The three-decker force mix at TrafalgarChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:26:31Boarding mechanics and the capture of ships of the lineNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?12:27Bearn and lost carrier momentumNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?57:07Bearn's handling system and carrier learningNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:03:34Joffre and continuous air operationsChapter
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:54:22Rigid fighting instructions and the Western SquadronChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-651:09:21Exercises understated destroyer air-attack riskQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:06:00Why France lacked a mature carrier-aircraft programQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:21:07A fast French fleet without its air componentChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class5:29Dutch shipbuilding and German design politicsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class28:33Soviet missile data needs cautious comparisonNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class45:00Dogger Bank and Jutland tested battlecruiser rolesNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:05:14A refitted Yavuz could guard the SkagerrakNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:17:58Carriers and submarines cannot replace a combined forceQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers10:09Cruising role and Jeune Ecole offset strategyNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers15:24Testing a cruiser definition against real shipsNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers17:32HMS Warrior and the cruiser-capital-ship boundaryChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers21:07Comparing major- and minor-power cruiser programmesNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers33:26Do all modern warships perform the cruiser role?Notable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect2:02U.S. cruisers as the scout forceChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect6:56Lexington carriers and the scout-force tradeoffNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect8:38Pensacola as a purpose-built scout cruiserNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect17:24Aggressive doctrine and mutual assumptionsNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect20:22Heavy-cruiser labels versus design purposeNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect41:27Specialized American and general-purpose British cruisersChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service2:52:19Why general-purpose capability consumed the TribalsChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6534:44Baltic amphibious warfare served a deep land offensiveChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style40:01Kresta II in North Atlantic ASW operationsNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style1:09:47Why an anti-submarine ship can still be a cruiserNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers0:32Comus and a Navy in transitionChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:00:54A longer Tryon career gives Fisher an earlier reform baseQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:10:20Fisher designed battlecruisers for deterrence, not the battle lineNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine0:55Admiral von Spee and a lost cruiser influenceNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine21:02Theory, procurement, and reality as three different fleetsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine39:22A coastal fleet for war with Poland and FranceNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:17:03Why a cruiser needs a chosen missionChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:30:43Why German cruiser policy failed to cohereNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:55:38Why German cruiser procurement never matched its strategyNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response28:18From coastal battleship to fast battlecruiserChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books14:19Battlecruisers, fast battleships, and the rebuilt KongosChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books30:39How mines and command delay contained the Baltic FleetNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books41:15Why naval command requires trust at seaChapter
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response0:28Sverdlov and the limits of reading later doctrine backwardChapter
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response5:08Why continued Sverdlov construction suggests a practical naval purposeNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response13:27How Soviet bastion doctrine changed over the Cold WarNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response14:14Why a new weapon rarely makes navies obsolete by itselfNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response37:34Soviet saturation attacks and the logic behind AegisNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response1:01:47How short-war assumptions narrowed Britain's maritime commitmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:42:13Why collecting intelligence is only the first problemQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:45:24Why German cruiser plans, doctrine, and operations divergedNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:59:18Why there is no single best Second World War submarineQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)24:03Asama's intended place beside the battle squadronChapter
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)33:56Japan chooses commerce control over independent raidingChapter
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)37:05Tsushima pits Russia against a fused Japanese forceNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)38:07Long-range salvo doctrine before DreadnoughtNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)41:19Why the cruiser concept still mattersNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)1:08:19Why the Royal Navy abandoned the middle cruiser tierChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)2:33Descartes, first principles, and Jeune Ecole's one-sided logicChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)5:01The longer naval race behind Jeune EcoleChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)15:09One cruiser requirement spans rival fleets and colonial stationsNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)21:38France's 1890 fleet plan pursues numerical superiorityChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)45:30Individual ships cannot substitute for a unifying fleet systemNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)50:12Jeune Ecole fails France's peacetime presence testChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)53:04Fisher makes Jeune Ecole ideas useful inside a wider fleetNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers11:08Sverdlov's four overlapping missionsChapter
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)12:21Sail-era command logic survives into the steam fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:21:53Scheme Z relied on uncertain morale effectsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:06:12Klingon forces combine different real-world naval analogiesQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:11:09Why NATO assumptions did not rescue Cold War warship designQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:52:03Armament alone does not define a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 643:16:15Why the Royal Navy was unlikely to follow the LCS routeQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 643:19:57Battlecruiser or fast battleship depends on the missionQ&A
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina4:11Adriatic lessons hardened into Italian speed doctrineChapter
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina5:55Book navies and the fading memory of combatNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina11:14Cruiser roles outlive the cruiser labelNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina44:38A reflective strengths-and-weaknesses audit for any navyNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)29:28Why early German cruisers borrowed incompatible ideasQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:28:16Warships must be fit for their operating contextNotable Point
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation35:18Staff College and Tactical School turn experience into doctrineChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments28:45Decisive battle was only one part of Japanese planningQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:47:12Staff and tactical schools carried the educational legacyChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:28:13Why did a cruiser war produce a battleship obsession?Notable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments18:42A Dutch carrier and German naval-aviation learningQ&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:29:49A cruiser war produces a battleship-minded navyNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:33:57Each navy drew its own lessons from JutlandQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today16:16Would Northampton-class cruisers suit the Regia Marina?Q&A
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina25:51Speed as both doctrine and prestigeNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina1:00:13Italian cruiser design: perception over purposeChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less1:25Was the Jeune Ecole an early offset doctrine?Chapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less17:24Why Jeune Ecole was doctrine rather than strategyNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine3:04:08Should Italy build only Zaras and Capitani Romani?Q&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)0:45Why French cruiser policy pulled in three directionsChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)18:23Could carriers have bridged France's doctrinal schism?Notable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)22:54Naval chiefs faced a revived Jeune EcoleChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)46:02Italy, not Germany, set France's immediate design problemNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)55:18Emile Bertin and the missed carrier logic of Jeune EcoleNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:02:01A fleet for imperial presence, allied war, and ItalyNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:05:09French eight-inch ships as fast first-class cruisersChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:10:37Light cruisers led the Mediterranean formationChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:16:34Elegant ships from an inconsistent naval systemChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)38:07How frigates, cruisers, and destroyers changed rolesQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)45:06The F125 as drone mothership or underarmed warshipQ&A
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)2:48First- and second-class cruiser roles clarify what the Northampton could doNotable Point
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)22:17Carrier escorts had to change once carriers became the main targetNotable Point
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)26:18USS Chester and a design overtaken by changing doctrineChapter
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)1:05:40The class succeeded as scouts but struggled as battle-line heavy cruisersChapter
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)1:09:32Hull shortages pushed scout cruisers into unsuitable wartime jobsNotable Point
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)14:37How close should a scouting force stay?Q&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?29:07A mission-based modern cruiser definitionChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?58:11A cruiser definition beyond national labelsQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:29:26Reading Gorshkov, Mahan, and Corbett to assess ChinaQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:30:27Carrier aircraft and ships develop as one systemQ&A
- Nine Sailed Star Book Review & Interview with Glynn Stewart7:48Long dominance turns doctrine into ritualNotable Point
- 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)1:01:53What was the French Navy good at?Q&A
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)0:07The US Navy's interwar cruiser transformationChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)9:13Why the scouting force began with slow battleshipsChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)28:07McKean and Robertson give cruiser doctrine its frameworkNotable Point
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)29:56Building American cruiser doctrine from scratchChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)33:38From sound hulls to coherent American cruisersChapter
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)5:30Judge a cruiser by the role it was built to performNotable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)10:00Could Pensacola accompany Lexington and Saratoga?Notable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:28Pensacola as a scout rather than a fighting cruiserChapter
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)23:37Pensacola rendezvouses with Lexington's Task Force 11Notable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)41:16Too many sound ideas in one cruiserChapter
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)50:42Holding navies accountable for role-driven designNotable Point
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)34:06Scout-cruiser doctrine versus fighting for informationNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)0:54The torpedo's giant-killer promiseChapter
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)9:36Why wonder weapons do not end naval judgmentNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)22:23Five overlapping ways to use torpedoesChapter
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)56:40Torpedo aiming as art and scienceNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)29:48A peaceful federation with warship problemsChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)50:15A cruiser in peace, a battle-fleet asset in warChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:40:30Designed around the worst caseChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:59:52The strategic complacency between Khitomer and Wolf 359Notable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)2:10:46The Odyssey and the danger of sending one big shipChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:49:49The conclusion: Galaxy ships are cruisersNotable Point
- Galaxy Class Cruisers: Carrier Variants and Fighters in Star Trek & Star Wars, all in 9mins 30s6:32Carriers as fighter logistics hubsNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:25:06The four S's of a cruiserChapter
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:35:04Why an SSGN is a strike vessel rather than a complete cruiserQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)58:04Why battlecruisers should not become makeshift carriersQ&A
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)15:10Firepower, survivability, and the commerce-raider roleNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)30:47Retreating firepower and control of the battleChapter
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)0:59A light cruiser designed to fight while withdrawingChapter
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)35:27Continuous building could split fast and slow battle linesNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet4:00Yamato's speed advantage over Nelson and RodneyQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet13:04Why early warships retained ram bowsQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet29:04The fleet-design trade-off between quality and numbersQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet44:23Hunting British battlecruisers in the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet48:24How familiar exercise patterns can mislead officersQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:33:47Why battlecruisers lost their distinct roleQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:18:37A fleet in being as an active strategic postureQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:43:49French destroyer doctrine and the missing escort roleQ&A
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)4:15Destroyer doctrine starts with the missionChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)7:08Technology and exercises can mislead doctrineNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)9:06Crews and formations turn ships into doctrineNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)19:03Italian speed doctrine meets the escort problemChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)24:01Japanese destroyers and night torpedo doctrineChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)25:34British zigzagging and Japanese long-range torpedo attacksNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)29:42French destroyers in a Mediterranean speed competitionNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:02:33A wartime 4.5-inch mount and the doctrine built around itNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:19:05Why there is no universal destroyerNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:23:07Repair and replacement capacity shape destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?0:43Read doctrine through missions and ship designChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?7:02A destroyer force can divide missions among different designsNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?10:28Why no destroyer is universally bestChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?12:48Henderson and Chatfield argue over destroyer sizeNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?29:30Could the H-class losses at Narvik still count as success?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?46:21How destroyer doctrine answers an enemy battleshipQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:52:43Why the Tribal class was not right for every navyQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:56:43Australia's Scrap Iron Flotilla made aggression a doctrineChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:24:23Judge destroyers by mission fit, not a universal rankingChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion31:16Battlecruisers as sea-control toolsNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion34:48Battlecruiser value depends on the theaterNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)48:21American firepower at the cost of speedNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:03:42Carrier scouting for a slow American battle lineNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:08:20Why battleship construction might persist into the 1960sQ&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships18:21Why is the Glorious Heritage a cruiser rather than a battlecruiser?Q&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships45:18Why emergency command authority needs protocolNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships55:04A superweapon without employment doctrineChapter
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:01:23The heavy-cruiser group is really a strike groupChapter
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:43:50The scale and danger of a nova bombChapter
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:48:12Negative-energy bombs for ship-scale targetsChapter
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:52:27Deterrence fails when weapon use is unthinkableNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:56:22Who provides the four superweapon authorizations?Q&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships3:06:58Witch Head abandons the fleet's standoff doctrineChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)0:09Why a 1939 war would not repeat 1941Chapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)20:45Kantai Kessen and its dangerous assumptionChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)25:00Interception and attrition before a fleet battleChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)33:16Imperial Defence Policy divides naval and army rolesNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)40:08Yamato fits the doctrine but arrives too late for 1939Notable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:14:00Why attrition, not a second Tsushima, is the likely outcomeChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?0:30Why a 1939 war would not follow the 1941 scriptChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?59:48Kantai Kessen meets British and American basesChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:17:24Japan's layered attrition and ambush doctrineChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:24:22Why not attack British and American trade first?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?1:26:02Two navies prepared for night fightingNotable Point
- 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
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)0:41Why deterrence needs a credible use doctrineChapter
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)9:05Magog mass warfare and the Nietzschean rebellionNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)31:31Superweapons without an employment policyNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)1:07:11Cruiser power still needs employment doctrineChapter
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)1:16:09The Cold War problem of a fleeting nuclear release windowNotable Point
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound9:17Kantai Kessen and the danger of planning for a foolish enemyNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:31:13Why Japan kept targeting carriers instead of logisticsQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:29:04Why Operation Tan No. 2 failedChapter
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion40:30National doctrine changes the value of all-forward gunsNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol4:22A First World War minelayer instinct carried into a new eraNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)0:22Why isolated battle-squadron duels are unlikelyQ&A
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)8:53Maneuvering battlecruisers in divisionsChapter
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)36:33Torpedo doctrine reveals a fleet's purposeChapter
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)39:06Navies build fleets, not isolated shipsNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)40:47Torpedo characteristics reveal platform missionsChapter
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)44:44The T-class ten-torpedo salvo is an ambush weaponNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)56:56Capital ships should use range, not brawlNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)10:03What the Royal Navy expected heavy cruisers to doNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)0:20Why an all-forward battery is more than a treaty expedientChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)32:03N3 and G3 as a fleet systemChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)57:22How availability shaped Nelson's design prioritiesNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)53:47Class history reveals a navy's fleet conceptsNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney4:01:51Beatty, Jutland, and Nelson's protection prioritiesNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)0:01Why use triple four-inch guns on battlecruisers?Q&A
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)16:49Reading a navy's expected battle from its secondary batteryChapter
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)18:54How mount layout and destroyer size affect calibreNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:38:00Why US and British carrier doctrine differedNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:13:29Why other navies should adapt rather than copy the Tribal classQ&A
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)15:16Closing with destroyers after their torpedo attackChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)30:45A firing solution depends on position as well as rangeNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:41:59Nelson-class design and the Royal Navy's distributed fleet doctrineQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"3:01:28Royal Navy aggression as calculated riskQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru16:22How the Royal Navy could answer a Jeune École fleetQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:22Why the cruiser role defies a single definitionChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)12:24Geography turns policy into ship requirementsNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:07:29Cruiser design makes national strategy visibleChapter
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)19:26British carrier doctrine valued sorties and combined decksNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)0:51Quirky warships as clues to naval requirementsChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)14:47Lexington's eight-inch guns and the changing carrier roleChapter
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises2:11:15What quirky warship classes reveal about naviesNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars47:42Peacetime scoring pushed submarines toward the wrong targetsQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:16:38Exercises taught lessons but also created blind spotsChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:28:32Undersea warfare as a contest of anticipated countermovesChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:35:09Modern ASW rests on decades of shadow boxingNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:44:37Computer simulations can preserve exercise blind spotsQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:20:20Why battleships still mattered beside carriers in 1941Notable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:45:11How aircraft carriers displaced rather than invalidated battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:51:26The Falklands War as a test of Western doctrine against Western weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...3:40:37Why an early German night doctrine could make Jutland more dangerousQ&A
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:43Why darkness changes naval combatChapter
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)22:00The Harwich Force's sacrificial Channel missionNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)31:09Making night fighting an institutional habitChapter
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)40:16Carrier aircraft as long-range light forcesNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)55:16Why carriers gained the practical advantageNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:27:00Operation C and competing night doctrinesNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII38:22British and Japanese night doctrine grew from experience as well as allianceQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII58:20Why destroyers and naval aviation became Britain's night specialistsNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:16:02Why interwar destroyers made night fighting their momentChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:26:09Harwich supplied the method while Jutland supplied the justificationQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:32:20Possible Japanese naval attaché visits to HarwichQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:08:36Commonwealth navies learned night fighting from the same instructionsQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?14:42Fifteen-inch guns as a fleet-battle triggerNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?0:35Pearl Harbor beyond one doctrineChapter
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?6:03Mahan and the selling power of decisive battleNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:04:15Carrier advocates and Pearl Harbor target prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov3:22:41Japanese doctrine beyond Kantai KessenNotable Point
- Strategy & Stragists: An Introduction to Bruships 6312:40Distinguishing strategy, tactics, and doctrineChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:13:09Cuddalore and limited sea control in IndiaChapter
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol32:58Wright's rule-bound style meets a fluid night battleNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol43:30Why a destroyer class carried Mahan's nameNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol1:19:57Why American strengths created a night-fighting dilemmaNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design23:55G3, N3, and the blurred battlecruiser labelNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:54:55How a Second World War carrier group might fight BismarckQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary18:26A harbour-strike doctrine built before TarantoChapter
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:20:34Taranto as a proof of concept, not a Pearl Harbor blueprintQ&A
- The Results: Taranto Long Patrol7:31Naval aviation becomes a fleet-strike weaponNotable Point
- WW2 in the Mediterranean up until November 1940: p2 Taranto Long Patrol10:01Royal Navy leaders applied First World War lessonsNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:07:16Lissa and the return of ramming doctrineNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles2:18:09Dreadnought's real break was doctrinalNotable Point
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)14:37Station experience made complex planning possibleNotable Point
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)41:06Illustrious embodied a different carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:57:11Copenhagen shaped preemptive naval thinkingQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:22:36Gunnery doctrine and Trafalgar's casualtiesChapter
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol18:42Fisher's doctrine prizes fighting efficiencyChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol13:17Foreign stations as a Royal Navy knowledge networkNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)0:36Could the OSI model explain naval warfare?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:26:30Why fleet carriers were poor early ASW hunter shipsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...46:11Specializing battleships for a fleet's likely warQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)52:30Battlecruisers as lancers, not line-of-battle shipsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)59:40What game-map scale reveals about battlecruiser doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?30:26The Blackburn Blackburn as an early Istar aircraftNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:02:00Devastator and Swordfish reflected different strike doctrinesChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:27:53A twin-engine aircraft might have unified the carrier air groupNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:49:02Why long-range naval aircraft needed a second crew memberQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:57:31China confirmed Japanese air doctrine without testing it against a peerQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:14:24The Fulmar was shaped by long-range maritime strategyChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:21:52How single-seat Zero fighters navigated long-range strikesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/48:08Yonai and Fushimi Hiroyasu as interwar naval mindsQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)1:02:11Essential cruisers, distorted by doctrineChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?19:09Armoured cruisers and the logic of long-range fireQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?52:26American cruiser doctrine changed while Japan's stayed consistentNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:10:25One broad role for very different cruiser designsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:04:48What makes a warship a capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:14:41Shore influence does not automatically make every gun platform a capital shipQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different16:24British and American views of the first strikeNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties21:23Concentrated fleet doctrine versus distributed warNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties23:17Admiral Henderson's procurement authorityChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties24:41How smaller navies magnify a narrow doctrineNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time2:14When the Jutland argument outlasted the battle's modelNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:01:19World of Warships mechanics versus real fleet doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:41:01Early radar changes Japanese night doctrineQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:20:56How long were mixed cruiser batteries defensible?Q&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response39:13Why no navy's doctrine is universally bestQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response47:23Japan combined night torpedoes with massed daytime air powerNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response31:39Pre-war preparation did not remove ASDIC's limitsQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:59:16British and Japanese reasons for night fightingNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol24:51Hunter groups and the escort-carrier oversightNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol37:01Convoy-interior attacks and doctrine adaptationNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)55:54Peacetime obedience and the Victoria-Camperdown collisionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:06:23How navies answer a submarine-heavy GermanyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:50:53Plan against a capable enemyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:54:50Japan's decisive-battle expectationNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:37:35Preparedness makes the cost of war visibleNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...4:04Channel patrols and the limits of tidy war planningQ&A
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/71:53Why ancient ramming does not translateNotable Point
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/77:42Ramming invites the enemy to cross the TChapter
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/79:36Confined waters and luck at LissaNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy10:36Camperdown's frigates were freed to huntNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy15:34Calder's Cape Finisterre action and Admiralty judgmentNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...5:23Single-carrier limits and multi-carrier practiceNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...7:10Allied carrier lessons adapted to national practiceNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident11:18Command choice and bad execution in NorwayNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol19:08Jervis, Cape St Vincent, and independent commandNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol23:08Admiral rank and reliable officersNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol46:17Nelson's offer and Calder's Trafalgar absenceNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol56:08Finisterre and the 1805 victory standardNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS3:37RAF formation and the Fleet Air Arm problemNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS5:06Carrier design needs naval and aviation translatorsNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships10:49Why frigates strain the armor-speed-firepower diagramNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:28:18Did Japanese torpedo doctrine preserve Jeune Ecole ideas?Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber2:21Armoured carriers, air-group mass, and survivabilityNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber7:04Attack geometry against moving fleetsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber19:35A 48-aircraft Illustrious-class counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions58:48Howard of Effingham and the hit-first traditionNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:31:06Battleships expected torpedo attacks as routineQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)34:22Kitakami and the limits of torpedo cruisersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:05:20Why escort carriers should not become fleet carriersQ&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)5:55Constructive challenge in a rigid command cultureNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)50:04The TA system and safe maneuveringNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)54:59The six-cables turning orderChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:00:34Tryon's signaling method and Markham's delayChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:16:31Court martial and command responsibilityChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:27:32The verdict's conflict between obedience and initiativeNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:30:41Majestic-class survivability and career consequencesNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:34:43Jellicoe, Victoria, and Grand Fleet commandNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:40:31Why Victoria discredited the TA systemNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)28:30Mitscher defines carrier supremacy as a fleet teamNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:49:05Royal Navy night training versus night-fighting doctrineQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191523:07All-forward guns versus task-force warfareChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191121:25Seydlitz: armour without tactical dominanceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190817:38British and German battlecruisers were designed for different warsChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)3:39Why the Tarkin Doctrine produces brittle fleetsChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)38:12Do Yamato and Bismarck fit the Tarkin Doctrine?Q&A
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)46:14Victory-class firepower cannot replace a defensive screenChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:08:04Xyston-class superweapon repeats the same defensive defectsNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:17:49TIE fighters are mismatched to fleet defenseNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:44:19Endor exposes a fleet command structure built around one rulerChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:47:17Does authoritarian symbolism explain Imperial military choices?Q&A
- Some More Battle Cruisers4:02Battlecruiser design begins with strategic purposeChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices20:24Doctrine only works when people learn itChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 321:43Why Vanguard was a fast battleship, not a battlecruiserChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 325:23Vanguard, postwar global presence, and Agnew's influenceChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 18:23Radar enables a line-abreast destroyer attackNotable Point
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 111:22Intelligence and training shape the night engagementChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:04:26How navies carried lessons from one war into the nextQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:42:25Realistic exercises as a substitute for wartime correctionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:55:57Why Japanese carrier aircrew losses were operationalQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)13:20How the Royal Navy viewed itself in 1945Chapter
- Four Random Books 34: A Special Place12:51Why new navies inherit old institutional habitsChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:10:54Mission command existed before navies named itQ&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?54:44The Soviet answer to layered air defense was missile saturationChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:07:24Soviet massed power meets NATO multirole flexibilityChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:55:30Naval doctrine speaks to the fleet, the enemy, and the governmentNotable Point
- 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity56:36Why surface groups and submarines protect each otherNotable Point
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:24:50Why the Falklands restored the case for naval gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy50:08Fleet auxiliaries encode a navy's operating doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:28:14A cruiser fleet and a Prussian-style armyChapter
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War3:59Concept-led comparison clarifies naval air-defence choicesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War4:23US and British carrier night fighters reflect different constraintsNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-929:56Monitor concentration versus Mediterranean dispersionNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments1:22How a British victory over Russia might have shaped Japanese doctrineQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191536:31British and German destroyer doctrine divergesNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:13:36Why World War II rewarded battlecruiser qualitiesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 23: 1930s Thinking...13:11Tactical means and the danger of assuming equal competenceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 23: 1930s Thinking...14:26Strategy, operations, and tactics at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)7:36Reading science-fiction fleets through naval rolesChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:45:30A battleship is built for the battle it cannot avoidNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:22:38Imperial Star Destroyers and doctrine-driven designChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:23:30Why a battlestar fleet still needs smaller escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:30:22Destroyer and the cost of ignoring identification procedureChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships11:25Why British battleships carried such heavy armourNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War13:42Rapid wartime expansion erodes institutional memoryNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction29:23Why the Town fitted the Royal Navy's cruiser roleNotable Point
- Town Class Part 1 of 7: Cruisers6:00The cruiser as a long-range patrol shipChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…56:04Commonwealth navies operated as one professional systemNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:44:07Did light fleet carriers replace cruiser roles?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:51Chasing actions and lost interwar naval languageNotable Point
- Part 4 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"9:46Victorious, Ark Royal, and Hermes embodied multi-carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"3:05:55Science-fiction cruisers reveal real role distinctionsQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation24:03Aircraft choices follow naval doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation26:17Carrier engineering depends on fleet requirementsNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation46:12Fleet exercises can reinforce mistaken assumptionsNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/230:26Balanced task groups and changing naval paradigmsChapter
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/230:26Why the Pacific War is not a universal fleet templateNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/233:14Stealth battlestars and the submarine trade-offNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1613:21Destroyer leaders as treaty-efficient flotilla command shipsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1616:07Global cruiser needs versus Japanese attritional doctrineNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1626:31Japan's submarine requirement and the limits of the fleet submarineChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-108:33Destroyers: rapid fire, screening, and torpedoesNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:11:54Large navies preserved competing wartime ideasNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:25:21Foreign cruiser threats could help unlock Treasury fundingNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol33:09Henderson's peacetime case for sloopsChapter
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol38:11Sloops in task-force doctrine and command trainingChapter
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)43:34Reliability as a route to Fleet Air Arm proficiencyNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:24:41Without Pearl Harbor, carrier dominance develops more slowlyQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 424:58Global war and the Royal Navy's competing schoolsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 420:17American sea power without its Pacific foundation mythNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 47:03Jutland's legacy for Royal Navy night fightingNotable 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
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 29:38Why the Royal Navy designed submarines for ambushChapter
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 212:14The logic of a large torpedo salvoNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 215:10Far East channel ambushes for an outnumbered fleetNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 228:23S-class boats as blockade submarinesNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:21:27Why HMS X1 offered little useful legacyQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:40:07Why carriers rarely needed torpedo tubesQ&A
- An Introduction "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P1/4 WWI29:06How capability created a naval necessityChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:39:45Which navy was most ready for 1939?Q&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?2:09:59Air defence at sea aims to disrupt an attackNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A38:11Why navies missed the guns-versus-missiles warning from VietnamQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:51:04The six-inch versus eight-inch cruiser questionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:56Why the Fletcher fit US Pacific doctrineQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)16:19Why a large gun destroyer faced resistanceChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)19:58Operational service changes Andrew Cunningham's mindNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)20:24How the Tribals were meant to support cruisersChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates21:56The Tribal class marks a transition in destroyer thinkingNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 130:25Stephen Roskill's strongest sea-power historiesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:59:14Lion versus Iowa: judging battleships by fleet doctrineQ&A
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers5:40Why fleet battle exposed the concept's weaknessNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A22:47What to expect from French Armoured CruisersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:04:44Japanese warships must be judged against Japanese doctrineQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 19292:19What the Royal Navy expected war games to teachChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 19291:16:14The 1929 exercises found questions faster than answersNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:25:03Why the interwar naval period mattersNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:27:24British and American wartime command culturesNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie0:50Why Britain planned several kinds of carrierChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie13:53The disputed British contribution to Allied carrier proceduresNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie14:37British and American interwar carrier experimentsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie16:56Why similar carrier exercises produced different doctrinesQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie29:27How command strain shaped Somerville's choicesNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie47:40Why Operation C became a test of attack cultureNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:12:01Philip Vian's carrier formations and US liaison criticismNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:34:17Why does Operation C receive less attention?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:39:49Make do and mend as an operational doctrineChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered43:30Henderson's carrier ideas in the British Pacific FleetQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?49:00Did the US and Royal Navies value destroyers differently?Q&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck18:55Why the Tribal design suited Vian's box formationNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video41:42Different raider doctrines produce different campaign mapsNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)1:04Why the Tribal class became back-pocket cruisersChapter