Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Naval History Method

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  1. The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)
    34:21Why histories emphasize successful submarine attacksNotable Point
  2. Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)
    1:10:42Yonai's influence is clearest in the officers he protectedNotable Point
  3. What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?
    29:26Naval memoirs can obscure the work of subordinatesNotable Point
  4. Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...
    12:41Translated accounts behind the Adriatic operationsNotable Point
  5. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    4:41:49Where AI may fit into online naval historyQ&A
  6. William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?
    10:13Why the surviving fleet totals disagreeNotable Point
  7. William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?
    19:35Why reconstructing the fleet depends on specialist studiesNotable Point
  8. William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?
    37:15The ship list is a later but essential sourceNotable Point
  9. Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?
    26:10A public-sources rule for discussing modern warshipsNotable Point
  10. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    1:58:32Leadership decides whether mass or skill prevailsChapter
  11. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    34:22When a general history question needs a specialistNotable Point
  12. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:26:28Checking new archive releases before a naval history book goes to pressQ&A
  13. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:29:39Why an archive index may survive when its files cannot be foundQ&A
  14. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:31:35Why one naval archive document rarely settles an argumentNotable Point
  15. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    8:49A ten-day snapshot of submarine lethalityChapter
  16. Battle of Chattanooga(1863)
    3:17Bruce Catton's trilogy teaches the war through narrativeNotable Point
  17. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    27:47What naval games can and cannot showQ&A
  18. Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments
    5:49Recognizance, reconnaissance, and changing naval terminologyNotable Point
  19. Scuttlebutt 4: A Wide Variety of Comments
    20:29Testing competing accounts of HMS DasherQ&A
  20. A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy
    2:56:15Why historians must trace papers across many archivesNotable Point
  21. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    25:12Design judgment and the limits of hindsightNotable Point
  22. Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    44:36What the Orion class reveals about design choicesChapter
  23. Bruships 113: Jutland
    16:20Testing claims about Hood's destructionQ&A
  24. Bruships 113: Jutland
    30:01What further investigation of Hood's wreck could establishQ&A
  25. Bruships 113: Jutland
    32:36Finding who built a dockyard ship's enginesQ&A
  26. Bruships 113: Jutland
    1:43:40How the 'luxury fleet' label can pre-judge the evidenceNotable Point
  27. Bruships 113: Jutland
    1:45:00When a paper design is not a cancelled warshipQ&A
  28. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:03:44Orders to a shipyard distinguish cancellation from an unselected designQ&A
  29. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:28:04Why warship cost figures need to be standardizedQ&A
  30. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:32:12Researching history for video gamesQ&A
  31. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:45:14The limited literature on the Sovetsky Soyuz classQ&A
  32. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:55:50Reading on dockyards and naval constructionQ&A
  33. Steam Battleships (1876-1891)
    51:43Why naval history needs a sustainable research modelNotable Point
  34. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    19:46Rickover's Civil War sea-power claim needs a caveatNotable Point
  35. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    4:50From Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes to the modern destroyerNotable Point
  36. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    28:49Testing a naval loss register's source trailNotable Point
  37. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    20:21How to approach Sharkey Ward's critique of defence politicsQ&A
  38. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    1:47:08How to assess battleships sunk by aircraftQ&A
  39. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    2:24:00Remembering HMS Hood beyond her final battleQ&A
  40. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    2:59:31How to handle unseen counterevidenceNotable Point
  41. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    2:59:03Reading ship design as forensic reconstructionNotable Point
  42. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)
    51:09Forensic engineering as a history methodQ&A
  43. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    8:00A source guide to Imperial Japanese naval strategyNotable Point
  44. Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)
    19:24Why a historian can publish without claiming research is finishedNotable Point
  45. Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived
    5:04Photographs, design tables, and the HMS Lagos builder's guideNotable Point
  46. Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived
    7:18Destroyer design and operations reading pathsNotable Point
  47. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    1:29:46Which naval-history subjects are hardest to research?Q&A
  48. My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design
    2:53N3's 18-inch gun and the Agincourt design hypothesisNotable Point
  49. My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design
    6:00What a naval game can test that a drawing cannotNotable Point
  50. The Results: Taranto Long Patrol
    2:01Why Taranto's damage figures need cautionNotable Point
  51. The Results: Taranto Long Patrol
    4:04Reconstructing John Wellham's torpedo runNotable Point
  52. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    1:17:47The limits of evidence on Sydney and KormoranChapter
  53. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    1:27:39What the 2008 wreck survey establishedNotable Point
  54. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    1:34:39A cautious explanation for Sydney's lack of survivorsNotable Point
  55. Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II
    11:40Destroyer memoirs preserve the officer's operational viewNotable Point
  56. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    13:47Reading Clark Reynolds's fast-carrier history as an overviewNotable Point
  57. HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/4
    5:34Why Penelope's battle honours understate her serviceNotable Point
  58. The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)
    10:58Photographic evidence of HMS Immortalité in JapanNotable Point
  59. Amphion Class Cruisers
    25:42Could any Royal Navy cruiser avoid serious wartime damage?Q&A
  60. Amphion Class Cruisers
    1:48:08What could Kormoran's survivors actually see?Q&A
  61. Amphion Class Cruisers
    2:19:35Wreck analysis and the survivor paradoxNotable Point
  62. Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson
    18:18Nelson as a thinking officer, not a reflexive maverickChapter
  63. Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson
    24:39Why one naval hero is not enoughNotable Point
  64. Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson
    26:24Private failings and professional lessonsNotable Point
  65. Four Random Books 8: Churchill
    5:16Using Dreadnought as a synthetic naval historyNotable Point
  66. Four Random Books 8: Churchill
    12:31Massie's portraits of Sturdee, Jellicoe, and BeattyNotable Point