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- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:54:24Checking AI images in open-source naval intelligenceQ&A
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- Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?1:19:41How secrecy and interpretation shaped Yamato estimatesQ&A
- Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?1:21:47How many layers should intelligence pass through?Notable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous23:28Naval secrecy and the absence of a shared war planChapter
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous31:09Keeping ministers informed without exposing operational detailNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:04:33How a carrier group can be mislocated by hundreds of milesQ&A
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:08:34The missing paper trail for British spy shipsChapter
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:14:55USS Gold Star's radio listening teamNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live3:23:24Did the Royal Navy choose survey ships instead of spy ships?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)28:43Yamato intelligence changes capital-ship planningNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:57:42Would the Allies detect a coordinated German-Italian attack?Q&A
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...5:29Daring, Ferret and Havoc: different lives of naval namesNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:22Matching Star Wars roles to real naval command skillsQ&A
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership10:32A blockade raid destroys an American intelligence vesselNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 28:52The Glorious First of June as a mid-ocean interceptionNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:32:12Cold War submarine collisions, Whiskey on the Rocks, and stolen hardwareQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:35:01Landing craft and covert acquisition of Cold War vehiclesNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:52Modern weather forecasting changes more than fleet routingQ&A
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?38:59Swappable modules complicate intelligence and threat assessmentNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...27:55Battle of the Atlantic memory can narrow threat thinkingNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:16:20Type XXI knowledge in 1936Q&A
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...1:15:46A victory that could erase Germany's Dogger Bank lessonsNotable Point
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?13:13Merchant auxiliaries become part of the kill chainChapter
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?55:09Information must be ready before seconds countNotable Point
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?56:48Soviet intelligence trawlers shadow NATO forcesChapter
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?58:14Small trawlers and proxy ownership complicate attributionChapter
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:47Why the Five Eyes alliance has no simple substituteQ&A
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor25:24Sempill, Mitsubishi, and aviation intelligenceNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor29:59Sempill keeps aviation access despite repeated security warningsNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor34:48Family testimony shapes Alex Clarke's judgment of SempillNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor59:13The Zero improves capability but loses the A5M's power-to-weight edgeChapter
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:22:08Publicizing an A5M successor could signal Japanese strengthNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:34:02Could publicity make Japan's modern air group a deterrent?Notable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:37:02Peacetime presence demands restraint while collecting signaturesNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:47:03Public ambiguity becomes part of deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:32Looking for US Navy records on HanazukiQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:49:21Polish crews and a proposed Soviet route to trial dataNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:38Reverse-engineering a Type IX U-boat in 1910Q&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:09:39Choosing a night air strike or a radar-assisted surface actionChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:12:50How first contact changes the carrier war-game resultsNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:13:57Japanese approach routes trade concealment against maneuvering roomNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start8:10Matching intelligence ships to the information missionQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start44:08A modern destroyer's guns and radios in earlier naval battlesQ&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?22:35Anticipating war with Japan required earlier readinessNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:02:18Published destroyer figures offer an incomplete pictureNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:33Why Japan could not add another major operation before MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:14Why a quiet enemy can signal a major offensiveNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:01Covert intervention and deniable arms supplyNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live1:09:26How peacetime sketches mapped German naval basesNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:21:35How ready was Wilhelmshaven for a carrier raid?Q&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:37:23Why a former intelligence director could challenge BeattyNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII26:59Western support forces reinforced threatened convoysNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...56:18Turner and the restriction of intelligence to HawaiiChapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...1:03:17Richardson's warning and the information failureChapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...1:15:07Pearl Harbor's Sunday routine was public knowledgeNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 349:54Scouting and intercepted orders in Fleet Problem IXNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 356:33Saratoga raids Panama and is caught on recoveryChapter
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet30:34Leaked Dutch plans and failed Spanish warningsChapter
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet32:19An intercepted warning left the Spanish fleet exposedChapter
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships32:16Fourteen-inch guns, armour, and the Yamato problemQ&A
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- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships44:59Admiralty departments, intelligence workloads, and quality controlNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle9:52How reports of Gloire shaped Warrior and Black PrinceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:47:52Naval intelligence was a core institution before 1914Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:28:35Industrial contacts mattered as much as covert naval intelligenceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:35:11German battlecruiser intelligence shaped the Admiral classQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War44:50Submarines listening near the Soviet coastNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:47:02Why Royal Navy secrecy limits what spies and observers can learnQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:30:19How credible A-150 intelligence could reshape Allied buildingQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:48Hans Lody's path from naval officer to executed spyNotable Point
- Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"20:34Maritime intelligence and the Harbours of RefugeNotable Point
- Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"27:28Queen Victoria turns a Cherbourg visit into naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception24:01RAF reconnaissance makes Taranto possibleChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception24:58A Swordfish, potatoes, and an intelligence-sharing workaroundNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception31:42Successful deception gives the enemy a plausible storyNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception39:21Why late-war U-boat losses did not end the threatNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?45:51Foreign cruiser submarines sustain a much larger British escort fleetChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?48:08Trade-dependent powers become more sensitive to submarine rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:28Why Britain disposed of surrendered warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:56Was Britain complacent before the High Seas Fleet scuttling?Q&A
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?22:43Sluys and English raids hollow out the French Channel fleetNotable Point
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)... defeating the first Armada?34:34Edward III builds the battle around intelligenceNotable Point
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War0:00Why British submarines constrained Argentina's attack planChapter
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War38:16Airborne early warning would close the attack windowNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?9:05Did British inattention make the scuttling easier?Notable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?16:25Halsey takes every carrier group northNotable Point
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?1:19How the Royal Navy studied American Pacific battlesChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?26:11Midway's broken contact and the shadowing problemChapter
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:33:11Why navies plan even for wars with friendly powersQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:00How peacetime port visits could inform torpedo-attack plansNotable Point
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...8:27Harbor-attack planning before TarantoChapter
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...1:17:26Taranto as a twenty-year set-piece operationNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:50:09The Royal Navy confronts a Martian invasion in 1913Q&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:52:22Ian Fleming and the recovery of German naval researchNotable Point
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...40:41Orangist officers prepare the squadron for mutinyNotable Point
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...53:41Why Vlieter's intelligence victory is easily forgottenNotable Point
- Battle of Winchelsea(1350)1:05:14Edward turns idle forces into coastal defenseChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:15:38Sloop movements and aerial identification suggest unused speedNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:22:27Mackensen intelligence helped shape the Admiral-class responseChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:26:56Intelligence can reveal a successor while its predecessor is being builtNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:53Why the Admiralty held accounts of Pacific battlesNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory18:47The French convoy slips through to Malta and EgyptChapter
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory22:31Malta falls, then HMS Seahorse captures SensibleNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory38:50Nelson reaches Egypt too early and misses the convoyNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory2:05:52Nelson turns battlefield prizes into intelligenceNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:02:57Hornby demanded a professional naval staffChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:07:22What if Hornby's reforms began in 1876?Notable Point
- Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...25:16The Royal Navy's secretive staff cultureChapter
- Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...1:00:41Britain receives snippets and signals softlyNotable Point
- Britain's Declaration of War in 1914: The July Crisis & how the British Empire Joined WWI...1:14:19German naval preparations outpace BritainChapter
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:21:11Ian Fleming's real naval-intelligence workQ&A
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?44:04The invasion becomes a Mediterranean fleet battleChapter
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:20Why replacing Fisher would not guarantee a naval staffQ&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:35:54When operational assumptions control intelligence assessmentNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:38:41Fleet Problem XIX repeated the warning on a Tuesday morningChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:42:42Did the intelligence point only to the Philippines?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:49:47American carrier doctrine revealed what the missing Japanese carriers meantChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:26:41Richardson, Turner, and the politics of naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:28:14Has American strategic warning improved since Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:44Royal Navy captures of enemy equipment and codebooksQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:15Why codebook captures can remain secret for generationsQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:07:14Admiral Kimmel and blame for Pearl HarborQ&A
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power41:06The Dundas connection and the Navy's merchant intelligence networkNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?20:48Why a surprise concentration was implausibleNotable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose29:20Intelligence and logistics doomed the Saldanha expeditionNotable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose1:41:19Orangist flags turn divided loyalty into mutinyChapter
- George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...41:46The Kingdom of Africa and the carrier-pigeon deception at MahdiaChapter
- George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...46:20An intelligence network disguised as extraordinary luckNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?31:53The Naval Intelligence Department as the Royal Navy's hidden staffChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?39:47The Royal Navy's age and the origins of naval intelligenceQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:01:11A proposed Admiralty staff and Sea Lord structureChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:08:38Could one Sea Lord cover aviation and intelligence?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:17:01Would an intelligence Sea Lord encourage departmental empire-building?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:23:46Why the Admiralty won ships but lost the strategy debateNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:07:51How submarines fit Fisher's conservative strategyQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:15:20Beatty with a standardized battlecruiser-fleet staffQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:52Periscope cameras were rare rather than standard in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:43A captured Pola could become an Australian prize cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:15Richmond Turner controlled information that Pearl Harbor commanders neededNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:42A timely warning changes Pearl Harbor's alert postureQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:55Revealing Yamato's 18-inch guns changes US deploymentQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:24Britain estimated Yamato's guns from photographsQ&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...42:39Malta gives Napoleon a base but exposes his routeNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:41:33Bedouin support made the shore hostile to French survivorsNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...11:31Intelligence sources and the Midway water ruseChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...16:01Turner's intelligence bottleneck before Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...18:50Operation C exposed the limits of Japanese supportNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...20:07Japanese intelligence geography and pressure to actChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...35:58American intelligence turns Japan's trap aroundChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:42:26Strategic desperation encouraged intelligence target fixationNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII1:38:43K XI class: colonial range, intelligence work, and mixed torpedoesNotable Point
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- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:35Royal Navy response to evidence of Japan's A-150 battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:10HMS Zubian and German fears of secret British shipyardsQ&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:59:02Isolated cruisers faced a carrier strike without layered air defenseChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?55:07Jutland intelligence failed in both directionsNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:01:11Scheer read success into uncertain damage reportsNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:16:55Jutland loss claims reveal operational confusionNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:05:55Jutland as a battle of confused informationNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:12HMS Regulus shadows Hiryū during a Japanese fleet exerciseNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:43Why a secret Kii-class battleship would collapse treaty restraintQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:15How Japan approached Pearl Harbor without being detectedQ&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:48:47Grenada and the danger of breaking formationChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?1:00:34An admiral must visualize a multidomain battlespaceChapter
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?18:58Kimmel's carrier instincts and intelligence handicapNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?42:23How Japan might learn the fleet has sailedChapter
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?1:09:15A fleet hunt might delay Japan's opening blowNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:23:53Rodney breaks escort to intercept BismarckChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:58:38Belfast command and a missed capital-ship actionNotable Point
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 194129:19Why Kimmel could not keep the whole fleet continuously at seaChapter
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 194136:29How Nimitz guarded against another intelligence failureNotable Point
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 194146:47Kido Butai's northern approach and communications problemNotable Point
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19411:21:59How Japan might learn that Pearl Harbor is emptyChapter
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19412:18:27Could the battle line cut off Kido Butai's return route?Q&A
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19412:23:09Could a relay chain quietly warn Kido Butai?Q&A
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19412:31:50Why the Doolittle Raid force attacked Japanese picket trawlersQ&A
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship29:22Wireless specialists filled a gap in the prewar naval staffNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!36:58Could the Allies have used a captured Bismarck?Q&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!49:04When an anchor can sever an undersea cableQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?24:50Surfaced submarines trade stealth for presenceNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:57:11Independent judgment puts Rodney across Bismarck's routeNotable Point
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition33:17Queen Mary's prewar service and Heligoland BightNotable Point
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition38:34Hall's Jutland communications counterfactualNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?10:23William Fisher combined tactical, intelligence, and logistics experienceChapter
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras43:34Gibraltar's dockyard restored Saumarez's squadronChapter
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!20:06Why naval leadership cannot be ranked by battles aloneNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?52:08How a call-sign question gave a misleading impression before JutlandNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:45:07Vesey Hamilton maps the Admiralty's departmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:07Why German movements looked like an Atlantic breakoutQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:59How an early Yamato design leak changes rearmamentQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...55:43A naval staff could turn intelligence into workable operationsChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:21:44Choosing the ground for decisive battle at TsushimaChapter
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...54:30Britain's race for German naval bases in 1945Q&A
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force1:04:24Chatham combines Zulu and Nubian into HMS ZubianChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:07:32Naval treaties tolerated a bounded margin of misstatementNotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?30:18Anti-submarine warfare begins with informationChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?33:29Exercises can conceal a submarine's real acoustic signatureNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?59:36Why studying Long Lance plans was not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:03:20If Bismarck reaches Saint-NazaireQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:17:01Advance warning ends the Jutland sortieQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview55:01Why published warship performance needs industrial contextNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:31:58Why long-range submarine missiles still need outside targetingNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:09:01How naval attachés turn diplomatic access into intelligenceNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:35:15Japan's secrecy obscures Shinano's lossNotable Point
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates25:19Benchmark navies could shape rivals through selective performance figuresNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo21:10Britannic's hybrid machinery and the meaning of published speedNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo22:53Can published historical warship speeds be assumed accurate?Q&A
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:19:00Dunedin's captures of Hannover and Enigma equipmentNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:08:49Essay: the secret Amagi intelligence fileChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:57:45Why Fleet Problem lessons did not save Pearl HarborQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/459:30What 1936 foreknowledge would change in British Pacific defenseQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:13:17Fisher and the US Navy react to future ships at TsushimaQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:58:39Why a secret Cold War submarine sinking is hard to concealQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 10850:10Why this warning would be difficult to dismissNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:58:29Why Japan would verify a report of 12-inch American destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...59:01Adding Tirpitz changes the entire Atlantic interception planQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:42:34Public engineering constraints can reveal hidden ship detailsNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII58:23Halsey replaces Ghormley before Santa CruzChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!31:02Why published warship specifications need cautionNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?27:34British decisions imply only partial knowledge of German ordersNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:25:39Public-source boundaries limit modern warship comparisonsNotable Point
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?55:08Surrender became a struggle over submarine technologyNotable Point
- War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion13:30American intelligence estimates TaihōNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 254:24Boilers and speed margins drive the British responseNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more43:24US neutrality-zone support in the Bismarck huntQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more44:27A combined German capital-ship sortieQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more48:20Detecting German naval activity through radio trafficNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:13:50Why a Japanese-sponsored treaty-evasion yard would be hard to concealQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:34:25Why hiding battlecruiser construction is an industrial problemQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:58:41Grenada and the danger of unverified fleet intelligenceNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:36:39Operation Berlin breaks out past British detectionChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:41:03Why Ramillies did not need to chase the raidersNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:15:14Bismarck's missing fuel and the Denmark Strait choiceNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:21:50Allied detection and a divided German flag teamNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:29:16Fire discipline and the decision not to pursue Prince of WalesChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:34:15A successful radar escape compromised by radio trafficNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:38:04German 17-inch guns and the British responseQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered25:23Britain, America, and estimating JapanQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:09:15When British and American radar development mergedQ&A
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:06:08Hawkeye turns early warning into networked battle managementNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:29:14Limits of publicly declared naval specificationsNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:51:13A carrier is a command system, not only an airfieldChapter
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:41:36Lion-class turrets, resources, and Yamato intelligenceQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World56:07Airborne early warning overtakes the radar-picket submarineNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:10:16Public-source caveats around Triton's reactor dataNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:23:32Triton's sensors, torpedo stowage, and manual handlingNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:00:22The Magellan route becomes a submerged hydrographic surveyChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:23:01Guam through the periscope tests American securityChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:03:14Seamount mapping turns the voyage into route intelligenceNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:08:04Sandblast advertises endurance and audits naval securityChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...20:23Battenberg's fleet and intelligence credentialsNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:20:41Battenberg as technologist and intelligence chiefNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:51:25The First Sea Lord as information managerNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:54:50Jutland, intelligence, and time to finish the battleNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed42:14When the Royal Navy disclosed new warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:19:49How super-Scharnhorsts change British rearmamentQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:44:19How Britain viewed the American naval buildupQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:54:24Britain's response to a German 21-inch battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:04:43Why oversized battleship guns cannot stay secretQ&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
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:25Battenberg's qualifications for First Sea LordChapter
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:29:04Earlier Flower sloops and monitors for FlandersNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:45:15How Battenberg turned royal correspondence into naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:48:05Gallipoli as a combined naval and land operationNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:53:28The unverified story of the Kaiser supplying naval informationNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:17:00Jutland with tighter information and command linksChapter
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 144:45W.19 long-range scouting and layered floatplane tacticsChapter
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 11:16:38W.33 service in Japan and the limits of the evidenceChapter
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist26:58Finding disguised seaplane scouts without exposing EnigmaNotable Point
- 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!28:28Silver routes exposed Porter's poor operational securityChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!33:38Dixon connected station intelligence with Hillyar's Pacific missionNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:11:38Hillyar turned Valparaiso into an intelligence-led blockadeChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:16:49Cannon range defined neutrality while Porter's anchors revealed his planNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:26:24Hillyar inspected Essex while Porter neglected PhoebeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:31:39Porter lost local support and failed to deceive the blockadeChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:36:52Local warnings exposed Porter's night boarding planNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:42:16Reinforcement reports compressed Porter's escape timetableNotable Point
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 837:16A more useful German seaplane-carrier pathNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier5:45Why the US Navy wanted a flying aircraft carrierChapter
- 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 Carrier1:59:33Akron's qualified success in a difficult search exerciseNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:05:36Why Akron's below-cloud spy basket failedNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:40:56West Coast scouting shows the airship's search reachChapter
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?3:41:37Why exported Cold War warships can keep British records closedQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism48:18Port gossip and silver protection create an intelligence networkChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism56:30Manley Dixon coordinates the South American stationChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:13:56James Hillyar brings a lifetime of war to the PacificChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:39:29Valparaíso becomes a blockade trapChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:51:10A prisoner exchange confirms Essex's carronade weaknessNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:52:39Cannon range defined territorial waters and blockade logisticsNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:00:01Porter's neutrality claims collapse under his own actionsChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:05:03Hillyar refuses Porter's duel and controls the escape gameChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:12:58How quickly could Dixon's South American station move information?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:14:37Planted intelligence and a failed leeward decoyChapter
- 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 Questions42:14Why Taranto achieved operational surpriseQ&A
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:20:07Soviet-Japanese conflict as a naval testNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 644:49Small battleship studies as a political exerciseNotable Point
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)17:59The Fairey Seal served the fleet's information problem firstNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle0:28Blackett Strait rewards preparation and informationChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle56:28Routine bombardment still demands detailed joint planningChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:04:00A rehearsed silent approach absorbs new contact reportsChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:09:09Merrill adjusts the plan without surrendering initiativeChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:18:19Preparation turns the battle into an American footnoteChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:25:07A reversed ambush tests the value of informationNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait46:38Fleet auxiliaries reveal operational intentionsQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:33:45Merrill treats uncertain contact as a threat without abandoning the missionNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:50Phantom warships in wartime intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:27:30The intelligence value of the Anglo-German Naval AgreementQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:08:14Would a Japanese Taranto attack change Pearl Harbor readiness?Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered13:49Could British G3 and N3 studies have influenced Japanese battleships?Q&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:13:20Why technical exchanges still missed British armorQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:49:22Corbett's operational study of the Russo-Japanese WarChapter
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/202414:44Why a treaty-era capital ship could not remain secretNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time27:42British intelligence saw Yamato but misjudged her gun caliberQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:17:33Transatlantic shipbuilding networks made G3 secrecy porousQ&A
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids2:29:09Were the Hawkins cruisers a response to rumored German guns?Q&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books38:08Why Bismarck might zigzag against an unlikely submarineQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:35:16Why the Admiralty created a formal staff in 1912Q&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War45:42Somali's gunfight yielded Enigma materialChapter
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1049:29HMS Nymphe's fireship raid nearly destroys IndependenceNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 71:13:15Seraph simulates the Type XXI for Allied anti-submarine trialsNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 617:29Planning against strong Japanese ASWNotable Point
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike1:09Pearl Harbor's warning and command failuresChapter
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike28:17Taranto intelligence and the Swordfish torpedo wireNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 218:59Far East planning for a dangerous southern advanceNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?18:09How seriously did Japan rate the American carriers?Q&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 224:44German yard intelligence brought British escorts forwardNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:25:40British officers understood Japanese decisive-battle thinkingNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out21:29A Roman trireme as a modern intelligence platformQ&A
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?57:58The escaping paddle frigate carried Sinop’s reportNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response9:31A carrier's scouting value during Operation BerlinNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?46:30Rawalpindi and HMS Clyde delayed the Atlantic breakoutNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?55:52Sightings and delays gave Britain time to reactChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?57:39Ramillies denied the raiders their first convoyChapter
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?1:22:20Convoy discipline exposed lone German supply shipsNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?1:29:22King George V chased reports rather than the raidersNotable Point
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:33:44How Room 40 intelligence reached wartime commandsQ&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?32:28Why Operation Berlin was not a carefully staged British trapNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:27:27A 40-hour escort delay gave British intelligence time to reactChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:32:09Could Britain have baited the German ships into a convoy ambush?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:37:47The breakout exposed Britain's interception problemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:56:20Would the attack on HX 106 come by day or night?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:08:49The raiders shifted from protected convoys to dispersed shippingChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:43:47A defective radar and incomplete report helped the raiders escapeChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:00:43Operation Berlin made Rheinübung harder to repeat successfullyChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:19:15Would Enigma expose a concentrated German sortie?Q&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?1:18:41New German hulls create a readiness and intelligence problemNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back5:28Africa Shell's survivors complicate British intelligenceNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back14:44The long detour slips below the British cruiser searchNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back15:32Harwood converts Langsdorff's delays into an interception estimateNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:21:46Searching for a naval equivalent to ZamaQ&A
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...9:40Germany's L20 and the appeal of 16.5-inch gunsNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...18:49Why submarine success cannot be read from sinkings aloneNotable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...2:18:00Why would Italy keep its fleet at Taranto?Q&A
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty25:42Milbourne James and information disciplineChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty53:31James, Room 40, and informal intelligence channelsNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 621:47The all-purpose cruiser filled its own hullNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty8:16German command profiling constrains the divergenceNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty36:00Room 40, call signs, and the wrong intelligence questionNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty53:19A staff built to move informationChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:57:58Did naval wireless use directional antennas?Q&A
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner27:20The race for Germany's surface-raider recordsNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres19:29Why German R-boats were mistaken for SchnellbooteNotable Point
- Joffre Class: Too Many Enemies - Key Ship Series 5, Epsiode 521:46Naval constructors could read secrets in plain sightNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?2:51:58Why technical and political intelligence could differNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:16:22Could Japanese surface ships reach the Americans in gun range?Q&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:11:38William's invasion fleet and the English failure to interceptChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 251:31A response to Yamato without advance knowledgeNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 158:38How uncertainty about Yamato drives worst-case protectionNotable Point
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)20:01Byron's decision under severe information limitsNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)45:23Frigate shortages and uncertain intelligenceNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)45:36Saint Lucia, St Vincent, and Grenada reshape the campaignChapter
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)1:55:22Cochrane's warning met Keats's faulty intelligenceChapter
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)2:34:51Intelligence, not ship totals, links the two defeatsNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda41:05How direct reporting from Tsushima accelerated British adaptationNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda51:01British intelligence and the force needed to contain the TegetthoffsNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)0:17WATU within the anti-submarine systemChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)9:41The Submarine Tracking Room turns reports into decisionsChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)11:29Charles Winn brings civilian expertise into naval commandNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole25:43Peacetime submarine detection creates a secrecy dilemmaNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 334:17Warspite races north after Rawalpindi is sunkNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?17:17War origins, reconnaissance, and émigré expertiseChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?43:15Newfoundland prizes reveal the Atlantic campaignChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?47:09Frigates, blockade gaps, and a fog-bound near missNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?49:45Prizes traded time for intelligenceNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)47:46The grain crisis behind the Atlantic campaignChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:19:21Convoy escort and interception plans collideChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:19:50Scouting, prizes, and the breadcrumb trail to the fleetChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:27:14Reginald Hall's black-eye test for victoryNotable Point
- How do Navies Learn from War4:25How participants and observers collect wartime evidenceChapter
- How do Navies Learn from War7:46Attaches and observers turn a foreign war into lessonsNotable Point
- How do Navies Learn from War24:24Teaching a lesson without exposing its sourceNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat4:41R-class range and intelligence assumptionsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:03:27What Britain could learn from a captured BismarckQ&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:30:29Operation Berlin began by winning the intelligence contestChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:26:50Route choice turned bad intelligence into a predictable breakoutChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:33:25Crete could tie Force H to the western MediterraneanNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:52:00Damage, fuel, and repair capacity drove Bismarck toward FranceChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:11:06When did Britain learn that Japan was building Yamato?Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus39:43Courtesy visits as naval intelligence opportunitiesNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:09:38Women as essential naval wartime personnelQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:51:39Why foreign carrier responses cannot be predicted in detailQ&A
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:31:48Quiberon Bay and the collapse of the invasion threatChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:32:38A victualling ship carried the warning that brought Hawke to QuiberonNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:28:52Are convoy routes fixed maritime choke points?Q&A
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/235:20The Royalists intercept the convoyChapter
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters31:13Catherine's league and Britain's Baltic learningNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:53:02Dry-dock inspection could expose treaty-breaking cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword3:06:52Sydney Reilly links espionage to naval industrial intelligenceChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:18:23Reginald Hall explains Jutland's strategic resultNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.3:09Would working British shells keep Scheer from seeking battle?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.3:04:44Reginald Hall explains Jutland as a strategic victoryNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:58:07Cold War submarine losses turn the seabed into an intelligence targetNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books56:14How sensitive performance data limits modern naval war gamesQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:39:05The rotation and intelligence behind the Brest blockadeNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:32:06Caroli and Schmidt's preparation for espionage in BritainChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:37:36How Caroli's friendship with Schmidt broke his resistanceNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:39:46Controlled wireless traffic and the staged Summer-Biscuit meetingNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:43:49Canaris's loyalty to Germany and opposition to the Nazi regimeQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:25:48Double Cross intelligence against Operation Sea LionNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:27:20Could America answer Agincourt at two ships a year?Q&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:02:18The Akutan Zero intelligence windfallNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:11:28Attu's empty window and the intelligence gapNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:16:09Operation Cottage and empty KiskaChapter
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:17:25Treat Russian modular-warship claims cautiouslyQ&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:20:48Did Japanese designers believe Queen Elizabeth made 25 knots?Q&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:06:47Trade intelligence makes distant blockade practicalChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:08:10Asama Maru demonstrates the reach of British shipping intelligenceNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:30:49Traffic analysis can reveal a fleet before codes are brokenNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:35:41A 1940 East China Sea battle favors Allied concentrationNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:18:03The missing incident that changes interwar threat perceptionNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:55:31Who built Britain's economic-war picture?Q&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites19:30Royal Navy intelligence before official start datesChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites21:18Finding sources on American naval intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites26:20Why a blockade fleet needed observers inside enemy portsNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites49:20Anson's Pacific expedition: unsuitable troops, disease, and ship lossesChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites1:50:32A possible British source in the German naval staffChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites1:51:51German gunnery documents and the work of intelligence interpretationChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:19:38Cast Adrift and strategy after imperial collapseChapter
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History32:29Fisher and German warship misdirectionQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History40:50Why Germany could not secretly build an Atlantic-winning navyQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History52:16Why German leaders believed Enigma remained secureQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions9:26K-129's missile could expose Soviet engineering and targetingQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions46:02Project Azorian weighed intelligence against escalation riskQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:44:17A British Midway account changes source type with the questionChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect2:45:26Did the consul at Valparaiso warn Cradock?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:51:44How navies track distant foreign warshipsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers19:27Battlecruiser labels and the SMS Blücher intelligence failureNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect2:02U.S. cruisers as the scout forceChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect10:15Pacific scouting and war-plan assumptionsNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect39:05Torpedo intelligence and doctrinal surpriseNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...12:24Published warship figures protect sensitive performance dataQ&A
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...1:04:01A nuclear task group trades logistics for global mobilityChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)17:46Radar reach made Chicago a strategic warning platformNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:07:05Foreign engineers supplied knowledge of Soviet warshipsQ&A
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser36:28PQ 17 and the Arctic convoy heavy-cover dilemmaNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:49:45Convoy arrival, intelligence cover, and the production raceNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...17:14Gunnery range, withheld intelligence, and the first shotChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...58:45Fighter screens, missile reserves, and delayed sensor reportsChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:02:45Deception can make victory unaffordableChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:12:09Strategic intelligence means deciding with an incomplete pictureNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style57:33Marshal Voroshilov carries Kresta II into the PacificNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy20:01Classification, electronics, and slow reloadsNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:08:23A Yamato intelligence leak forces Allied counterbuildingQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine34:38Covert submarine development as a known secretNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:38:58Shared German silhouettes offered only limited deceptionQ&A
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....0:48The information-war origin of Britain's later light cruisersNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....4:45Tactical reconnaissance changes the range calculationNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....19:06Weather, intelligence, and contact at Dogger BankChapter
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....32:14Galatea reports Jutland's first contactNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....36:18Phaeton becomes Jellicoe's trusted independent scoutNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:02:01Why Britain treated the German Navy as an exceptional threatNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:42:13Why collecting intelligence is only the first problemQ&A
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)36:39Poudre B's name reflects French anxiety over British espionageNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)48:23Coronel illustrates how Royal Navy tradition shaped commandNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers3:21Why the Royal Navy treated Sverdlov as an ocean-raider threatChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers55:23Ordzhonikidze and the unresolved Lionel Crabb espionage caseChapter
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty58:43Successful arms control must reward complianceChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:00:18American surveillance revealed Japan's minimum acceptable ratioNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:17:28Lexington's precise tonnage claim damaged American credibilityChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:46:18Italian heavy cruisers exceeded the limit in plain sightChapter
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:04:17Geography made German capital-ship construction harder to conceal than YamatoQ&A
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 535:19Distinctive warship paint versus intelligence riskNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control51:53Late orders and the mutual interceptionChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:00:33Was the Raid on the Medway an epic British blunder?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War54:40When the Allies identified Yamato's 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:08:11British intelligence misses Yamato and the Long LanceChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:09:32Confirmation bias and phantom Japanese battlecruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:12:14Royal Navy submarines scouting inside Japanese watersChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:07:13Naval intelligence as knowledge, organization, and powerChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History59:10Pearl Harbor and the full cost of forward basingNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response38:44Why Safi's concrete coastal battery looked more dangerousNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:24:07Forward basing requires defense, supply, and intelligenceNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:34:53Satellites would transform wartime naval reconnaissanceQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:43:32Why mistaking a Tribal for a cruiser is understandableQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:26:18Yamato intelligence and the fate of the Lion classQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations38:01HMS Audacity breaks the Condor reconnaissance chainChapter
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide26:45How U-52's submarine line sank HMS NottinghamChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)36:05Why HMS Warspite watched the Battle of IquiqueQ&A
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France1:12:06A stronger Indian Ocean fleet reshapes Japan's target choiceNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?1:14:23French naval knowledge strengthens covert supplyNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4216:33Why the French fleet could not respond better to Operation TorchQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:39:38Using genuine Admiralty design work for deceptionNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4023:23How knowledge of Yamato might revive the Montana classQ&A
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War18:25American planning for war with Spain before 1898Notable Point
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina3:27ONI estimates reveal the class and its machinery lineageNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:34:35How foreknowledge could reshape the Denmark Strait battleQ&A
- Ruse de guerre31:40Dummy capital ships satisfy German fleet expectationsNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:09:30Harwood predicts Graf Spee's River Plate moveNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine57:15British machinery exposes Italy's industrial constraintChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:59:33Why would foreign powers sell Italy naval steel?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine3:00:16Naval treaties made blatant cheating a US trade riskNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)41:45Interwar naval coordination magnified Britain's shock in 1940Notable Point
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))26:29Hector Boyes turned attaché work into intelligence accessChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:11:04Hector Boyes recognized the value of the Oslo ReportChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:18:24Boyes, Graf Spee, and the Asama Maru affairQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:53:38The Admiralty needed depth far below the First Sea LordChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)17:20Gibraltar and the uncertainty of Napoleon's expeditionChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)28:50How narrowly Nelson missed the French fleet at EgyptQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)57:43G3 orders and the information gap before WashingtonNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)3:03:37Testing the proposed Swedish mining mission for HMS GloriousQ&A
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)6:38HMCS Haida in combat and French coastal operationsChapter
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)34:52George Ballard as officer, analyst, and historianNotable Point
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)36:36Skirmisher, Scarborough, and uncertain intelligenceChapter
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...4:11Why a recovery ship might shadow MoskvaQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions33:54Fishing boats as Pearl Harbor warning picketsQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:54:24Satellite surveillance in the Second World WarQ&A
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)39:14Soviet destroyers as coalition observersNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)31:34Perfect game information versus command uncertaintyNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)58:43Why German construction was harder to concealNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)39:36A German Yamato and the Allied responseQ&A
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#28:33Judge Kimmel by the information he receivedNotable Point
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#38:06Readiness choices under incomplete warningChapter
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#47:13The Navy inquiry, Stark, and Forrestal's responseChapter
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#55:56Edwin Layton, intelligence, and the southwest assumptionNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)56:46When no one owned intelligence distributionNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:29:18What could Kimmel have changed with better intelligence?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:30:30Did Richardson's removal make Kimmel less vocal?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:03:32The Roberts Commission and wartime secrecyChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:06:56Could the Roberts Commission see Magic intelligence?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:24:17Why Kimmel searched the southwest approachesChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:38:08Pearl Harbor as a system failureChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?49:34How would early Yamatos change Allied battleship design?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)34:26Supplies and surprise leave Carthage unready to fightChapter
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)18:28Why reaching port could mission-kill a surface raiderNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books11:34Finding naval archives through reference guidesNotable Point
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)33:53Captain Hall and naval-intelligence scrutiny in ParliamentNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)1:00:45Almeida's advance mixes intelligence and terrorChapter
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu1:37:26Almeida delayed succession to destroy the Mamluk fleetChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)38:18Combat roles and the shared pictureNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)42:42Does every ship contribute to naval intelligence?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:25:07Naval intelligence without a quick Enigma breakQ&A
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)34:22ASW depended on specialist officers and intelligenceChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)36:20Why Hugh Sinclair's death mattered to wartime ASWNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)40:36Good ASW intelligence had to be communicated effectivelyNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:19:53Specialist leaders sustained submarine and ASW expertiseNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)48:18The Royal Navy anticipated a surprise blow in principleQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)52:31An Indian Ocean fleet would be harder to surpriseQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)58:01An early sighting could have postponed Pearl HarborQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)58:33Why timely carrier intelligence was difficultQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:23:13Japan's merchant-fleet recall signaled imminent warQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:49:08Better scouting could bring Jutland on soonerQ&A
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)31:50Corbett developed doctrine through institutions and intellectual networksNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?31:05Surprise and reading an opponent's historyNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:30:12How Allied intelligence misread YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:36:15A compromised source and cautious naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:55:21Did the US Navy know POWs were aboard ships it sank?Q&A
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol32:47How the Deutschland report shaped the British responseNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions57:39X1, submarine technology, and the Meyers espionage caseNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:10:50The legal distinction in the Colin Meyers secrets caseQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary24:02Japanese investigation at TarantoQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:19:22Why Britain expected the whole Italian fleet to answerQ&A
- The Plan for Taranto: Taranto Long Patrol P321:20Harbour knowledge built from institutional memoryNotable Point
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:51:49An ASW superpower still needs defined limitsQ&A
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)17:03Bases and uncertain neutrality shaped the Mediterranean routesNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:32:26Why British estimates of Baden changed after inspectionQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:17:49Brassey's exposed Japan's war economy and support fleetChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:59:44Public intelligence revealed Japan's short-range doctrineChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:29:29China Station experience shaped British estimates of JapanChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol24:01The return crossing, Ireland diversion, and Channel raceChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol28:45Britain's dispersed blockade networkNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol56:13Nelson's pursuit and Villeneuve's choicesChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:55:24How Nelson's own deception lost VilleneuveChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion4:11The missing allied squadron and British force depthChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion8:55Didon's dispatch mission exposes French communicationsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion9:56Cornwallis backs up Calder with frigate scoutsNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion12:46HMS Phoenix captures Didon and her dispatchesChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion18:30A small British group helps divert VilleneuveNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign12:36Nelson's misdirection and Villeneuve's escapeNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign19:06Orde reinforces the Channel Fleet without a port callNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign21:21Martinique orders and a missed Caribbean opportunityNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign34:38Nelson's Atlantic pursuit and British coverageChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders24:14Alexander Cochrane and the West Indies stationNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p2: French Fleet Commanders8:39Nelson's Toulon trap and Villeneuve's escapeChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p1: Strategy & Some Priniciple Personalities41:53Dundas, corruption and naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/47:31Canaris, Spain, and protection for his wifeQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/410:03Canaris and the alleged Ju 52 air-threat scareQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/412:00Canaris, Lord Varys, and loyalty to GermanyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/413:46Why the theory that Britain turned Canaris is hard to sustainQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/417:48Canaris's escape route through PlymouthQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)21:45Midway and the contingency Japan did not planNotable Point
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)1:05:38The intelligence sequence behind Kantai KessenChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:08:16Where British constructors recorded their doubts about Japanese cruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:29:12Takao class and the intelligence gap over displacementQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:13:52Naval attachés as the working layer of naval diplomacyQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:39:19Was Canaris a British double agent?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:44:32Can an effective intelligence chief remain a good person?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:47:04How can an intelligence chief change a war?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:53:52Dönitz had reports but did not read the Torch patternNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:58:59Could U-boats report that escorts were disappearing?Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review (31):10:12Intelligence work and the longing for prewar orderChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris9:26From Dresden escapee to naval intelligence officerChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris11:13Spanish U-boat logistics and submarine commandChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:46:34Submarines behind a distant blockadeChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea22:42Why the escort shortage was hard to foreseeNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI4:00The Dupuy de Lôme name moves from raider to intelligence shipNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI6:31Why a fleet submarine still could not keep upChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers8:32Information warfare and treaty-limited scoutsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)26:48If von Spee commanded the High Seas FleetQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:30:20Why battleship money could not instantly become U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:46:59Why more submarine docks would reveal Germany's prioritiesQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response36:48Wolfpack radio traffic and submarine detectionQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:46:50Intelligence and decisive-battle doctrine shaped MidwayQ&A
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live20:31Strategic blind spots about Western industrial powerNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol22:38The garrison Carlson expected to raidNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol40:43The reconnaissance force the Pacific war did not developNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident15:10Norway in Britain's distant-blockade strategyNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol52:49Unused frigates undermine Calder's defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:45:31A Nagato postcard could stand in for YamatoNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:32:24Sources for Britain's planned role in invading JapanQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:40:43USS Liberty requires caution about incomplete evidenceQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail29:20How the Dutch tracked the Spanish fleet before the DownsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:44:15Sidney Smith's precocious command and intelligence apprenticeshipChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:50:32Sidney Smith's Western Squadron raids, capture, and escapeChapter
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:54:43What happened to a prize captured after peaceQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live35:04Midway strength could not cancel the intelligence gapQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live2:54:05When did Japan recognize American codebreaking?Q&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:47:32What total destruction at Pearl Harbor would costNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:27:36How to judge Chinese warship build qualityQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books4:02:28Why submarine propellers became less visibly secretQ&A
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:02:03Submarines report before they attackNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)29:04Why Milbourne James prepared Portsmouth earlyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty5:04Jutland reports and lost intelligence credibilityNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty6:31Obsolete cruisers leave the Grand Fleet short of scoutsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty8:59Scouting positions mislead the Grand FleetNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class16:27Armour made Gorgon a protected coastal reconnaissance postNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers15:13Blockade intelligence tests German shipbuilding claimsNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:44:46Convoy intelligence and the difficulty of finding a fleet at seaChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 111:22Intelligence and training shape the night engagementChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190715:07Proximity and fleet range sharpen the British-German rivalryNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War16:09Geoffrey Bennett's lessons from Second World War naval battlesChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:52:51How the Royal Navy temporarily searched the wrong way for BismarckChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!26:06Intelligence and sugar revenue make Caribbean defence urgentNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!2:05:17George Tryon's initiative system ended in obedient catastropheNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy30:21Naval intelligence grew unevenly with communications technologyChapter
- Bruships 44: Strategy33:04Better intelligence should support rather than remote-control commandersNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy37:19Trade protection helped turn intelligence into a naval institutionNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:34:02Intelligence managed Anglo-American naval rivalry after 1918Chapter
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:34:04The Anglo-Japanese alliance linked security and naval technologyNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:36:07Contingency planning can test a staff without predicting warNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:39:58Naval intelligence used open information and professional accessNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:43:56The naval battle of Paris ended through informed compromiseNotable Point
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War7:53British intelligence overestimates König-class gun upgradesNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:47:02How treaty accounting could mislead naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1320:31Belgian civilians constrain the Ostend bombardmentNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1321:25Uncertain Ostend defenses shape the monitors' approachNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments10:15What Japan knew about the Russian squadronQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191511:50Room 40 turns German radio traffic into warningChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191557:04An intelligence-led ambush fails to destroy Hipper's forceChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:53:10Why was the German fleet salvaged?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:16:39Why Blücher was not a true battlecruiserNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 1, Humber Class28:04Horace Hood brought amphibious experience to the Dover PatrolChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 315:36How the 1936 naval treaty's safeguard clauses workedChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 320:49Charles Little links trade, submarines, and naval intelligenceChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 323:24Percy Noble brings equipment and fleet-command experience to ChinaNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 115:47Gunboats gathered intelligence and depended on operational reserveChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 128:46Fighting outside Shanghai ended, but hostility remainedNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations1:19:48Documents behind the Anglo-German naval raceChapter
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys14:29The 1943 annual as a wartime fleet-recognition referenceChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...20:16Far East reconnaissance amid flag and identity confusionNotable Point
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?35:58Japanese code reading and consular intelligenceQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?46:05The Kido Butai's extraordinarily lucky approachChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:27:30Empire Rising: convoy escort and delayed intelligenceChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:11:44Fatal Alliance turns Star Wars into a privateering storyChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond30:26Taranto becomes a lesson for Pacific naviesChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond33:38Torpedo debris reveals only part of the shallow-water methodNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond36:08Japan follows up while John Opie's warning stallsNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 5 of 5: What ifs, Ships & Patreon Votes14:39Could warning have turned Pearl Harbor into an ambush?Notable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,10:24Warnings that did not become readinessNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction16:52The Anglo-German Naval Agreement as arms control and intelligenceNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark4:44Why practising carrier raids did not settle the Pearl Harbor threatQ&A
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark11:54Peacetime port photographs retain intelligence valueNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark57:18Pollock bypasses an intelligence-sharing barrierChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:01:42Why RAF-Royal Navy rivalry obstructed intelligence sharingQ&A
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:05:15Harbour geography and incomplete torpedo nets shape the attackChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:08:34The uncertain source of Taranto's net-depth intelligenceNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:10:02Sound detectors could warn Taranto without preventing surpriseNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:22:45Doctrinal rivalry complicates secrecy before TarantoNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:24:30Missing scouts leave a misleading intelligence pictureNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American8:13Royal Navy battle summaries as operational learning documentsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American10:19Coral Sea search, intelligence, and a missed radio reportNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark1:14:29Did the Fleet Air Arm rehearse Taranto in detail?Q&A
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark3:02:35How aircrews recognized ships in the harbourQ&A
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark3:26:36Why submarines did not wait outside TarantoQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:09:22How Yamato intelligence might have changed British constructionQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:13:20Could Yamato intelligence have given King George V 16-inch guns?Q&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers47:41Why Perth used Sunda StraitQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers1:30:26Why Sydney may have closed on KormoranNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers2:29:48Was Sydney already at action stations?Q&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1017:58Article 10's notification and verification systemChapter
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review30:23British naval intelligence: a rich but demanding readNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review32:53Naval Enigma required organization and machine capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review34:52Integrated intelligence still faced access restrictionsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:19:49Boyd's naval-intelligence history and crowded notesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:55:30What a wartime Brassey's reveals in real timeNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:04:43How Brassey's published wartime naval informationQ&A
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers0:05A destroyer officer’s account of the Bismarck huntChapter
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers2:21Inside the Admiralty Operations RoomNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:56:25Intelligence and radar set the trap at UshantChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:58:16Headache exploited German radio habitsNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 38:23Battle of Ushant: intelligence and radarChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 316:09Ambushing an attacker that must approach the convoyNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style26:12Intelligence cover and Malta's apparent strengthNotable Point
- 2 minutes: Battle of Duisburg Convoy0:42Cracked codes and Malta reconnaissance expose the convoyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson6:13Finding an enemy fleet on an open seaNotable Point
- Four Random Books 2: Age of Sail & Nelson7:53How Howe's fleet turned maritime clues into contactNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:06:25Intelligence made Malta's attacks seem omnipresentNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/320:56Ultra, high command, and the pressure on PoundChapter
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/324:57Pound's feared worst-case scenarioNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:43:47China Station knowledge of Japanese decisive-battle doctrineNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 448:10Submarine ambushes before the fleet battleNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 216:50England built its fleet for a specific opponentNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 237:24Strategy, weather, and a mission killChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 241:51PQ17 as an information and worst-case planning failureNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:38:47A prewar submarine reconnaissance of a Japanese anchorageQ&A
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"46:18PQ 17 and the danger of worst-case assumptionsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A47:15Reading the Soviet Navy through a Cold War reference guideChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:05Separating Soviet naval potential from realised capabilityNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 22:14The D class after JutlandChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie35:34What was Operation C intended to achieve?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie42:17How conflicting reports spoiled Somerville's night attackNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192132:41The Sempill Mission transferred knowledge and assessed JapanChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered22:13Why interwar naval intelligence sometimes declined to collect materialNotable Point
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:32:04Japan did not need captured German plans to assess British weaknessQ&A
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)4:52Radio direction finding informed the land commanderNotable Point
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full7:52Why the Royal Navy committed a powerful hunting forceNotable Point
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full35:15Altmark's long evasion of the Royal NavyChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full41:26How Norwegian inspections missed Altmark's prisonersNotable Point
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full44:46Diplomacy and radio traffic close the netChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video17:52Harwood closes Graf Spee's escape routesNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video32:12Britain returns the Germans it least valuesNotable Point
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video49:00How intelligence put Liverpool on the routeNotable Point
- January 6th Asama Maru leaves San Francisco - An AsamaMaru80 video0:44Asama Maru leaves San Francisco with German sailorsChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video4:05Graf Spee's silent passage frustrates the British searchChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video9:33Similar German raiders complicate British identificationNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video29:51Global commitments limit the Graf Spee huntChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video56:34Britain resists Graf Spee's intended psychological pressureNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video59:08Harwood weighs Graf Spee's remaining targetsNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:02:25British forces chase Graf Spee through the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:06:31A British hunting group occupies Graf Spee's waiting areaNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:12:12Force H and Force K close the door after Graf Spee passesNotable Point
- The End of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:09Why Langsdorff scuttled Admiral Graf SpeeChapter
- The End of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video7:09How Graf Spee's raiding route revealed her intentionsChapter
- Day 3 of the Montevideo Diplomatic Battle, the 16th of December 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video1:00British surveillance tracks any move by Graf SpeeChapter
- SS Streonhalh; the Last Victim of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video1:27Streonhalh reveals Graf Spee's Atlantic crossingNotable Point
- SS Streonhalh; the Last Victim of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video5:26Captured papers and the geography of British tradeNotable Point
- SS Tairoa - A River Plate 80 Video3:25What Graf Spee gained from Tairoa's routing papersNotable Point
- SS Doric Star - A River Plate 80 Video2:21Doric Star's signal turns a sinking into a pursuit clueNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)58:31Why submarines played a different deterrent roleQ&A
- SS Africa Shell & Switch Back - A River Plate 80 Video1:51A mistaken ship identity complicates the huntNotable Point
- SS Africa Shell & Switch Back - A River Plate 80 Video6:07Graf Spee's switchback and the timing of the huntChapter
- SS Africa Shell & Switch Back - A River Plate 80 Video7:13How Harwood may have allowed for Langsdorff's delaysNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video24:05Parry carries specialist judgment into senior commandNotable Point