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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:32:45Henderson, Backhouse and wartime carrier employmentQ&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:39Irish sailors and the limits of abusive shipboard authorityNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?15:17Arthur Wilson's doubts about an expensive leaderNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?35:22Battenberg's strategy and political vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:29Henderson, Jellicoe and Cunningham in a modern naval thought experimentQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:49Henderson's personal networks and the politics of naval constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:52:02Naval honours and workplace power disparitiesQ&A
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...39:55Could Darlan have sent the fleet out of France?Chapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?10:00Italian naval leadership under MussoliniNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:06:18Choosing a First Sea Lord in a crisisNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:16:11Charles Forbes and responsibility for naval operationsNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous3:40:13Which later admirals merit warship names?Q&A
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars24:52Destroyer command and interwar officer developmentNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)51:33Even Beatty would reject Fisher's original Baltic planNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)1:39:50Why Fisher could not readily dismiss JellicoeNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:30:18How would a Russian admiral cooperate with Jellicoe?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:45:09Was Fisher right about Jellicoe?Q&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:22Matching Star Wars roles to real naval command skillsQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:23Judge Fletcher's carrier decision with the information he hadNotable Point
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership0:00Why Raphael Semmes's writing matters to naval historyChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership24:24Alabama's endurance depended on an international crewChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership31:59Why Semmes challenged Kearsarge outside CherbourgNotable Point
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership38:58Semmes's leadership aligned a divided crewNotable Point
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership42:12The political and professional legacy of Semmes's booksChapter
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:43:12How captains kept a followingNotable Point
- The Press Gang, myth and reality...1:47:07Why an officer's recruiting reputation affected his careerQ&A
- The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)25:16Why naval leaders need mixed career backgroundsChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:10:42Yonai's influence is clearest in the officers he protectedNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...11:19Vian and Cunningham's reciprocal loyaltyNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...22:49Admiral Cowan and the Baltic command climateNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...47:52HMS Malaya and the limits of the mutinyNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...51:05Cunningham on missed warnings and the late pay-cut letterNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...53:36What 500 interviews revealed about sailors' household budgetsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...56:32How location shapes memoirs of InvergordonNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...58:36HMS Warspite and Captain Wake's measured responseChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:03:16How Invergordon spread ship by shipChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:20:30Tomkinson's concessions and the pressure to settleChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:22:57Dispersing the fleet and rejecting forceChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:34:46Tomkinson or Cunningham: would an immediate sortie have worked?Notable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:04Rumsfeld-era procurement and Beatty's command rolesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today5:25Destroyer evolution offered battlecruiser designers a warningNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today23:03Destroyer command builds future fleet leadersNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:14HMS Tiger's crew had changed by JutlandNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...5:28Destroyer flotillas gave future admirals early command experienceNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:43:05Historic admirals would first have to relearn modern naval politicsQ&A
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?9:25Senior captains extend command below the flag-officer levelNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?10:17Warship-loss risk requires unusual depth in naval commandNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?16:58Woodward's Falklands command covered the carrier battle groupNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?17:34A proposed Bristol headquarters for the Falklands task forceNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?21:21Task-group command rank reflects concentrated naval firepowerNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy0:16Katari and the long view behind Indian naval indigenizationChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy10:36Command experience through integration, Delhi, and the destroyer flotillaChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy13:38First Indian Chief of Naval Staff and the rank politics around commandChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy16:07River survey service and the barriers Katari had to crossNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy21:45How routine survey work prepared Katari for naval commandNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy27:26Taking a river paddle steamer from Bengal toward IraqChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy28:18Why educating successors was part of an officer's jobNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy40:53INS Delhi, ship culture, and learning cruiser commandChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy42:26Composure as a tool of naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy51:03Institutional memory and coaching in a navy under transitionNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy53:49Building a national fleet through tradition and hard exercisesChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy1:03:28Morale, communication, and democratic naval leadershipChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy1:05:50Division duties: daily conversations between officers and sailorsNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet6:09Internal consensus may explain steady Korean naval procurementNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!2:20Gorshkov pushes beyond the KA-25Chapter
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century0:00Kawano's long tenure and political trustChapter
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century2:21The persuasive style behind Japanese naval procurementNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century4:37Why Japanese naval ideas can mature after their sponsor leavesNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century8:59From engineering student to Joint Staff chiefChapter
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century10:23A family link across wartime and postwar Japanese naval serviceNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century11:46How Kawano grew into naval discipline and leadershipNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century14:06How accountability led Kawano into mine-warfare commandNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century15:50The civil-military tightrope of Japan's Joint Staff chiefNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century16:59What Kawano's medals reveal about serviceNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century19:27Reading command appointments and staff service from Kawano's ribbonsNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century23:38Making the navy's case beyond the serviceNotable Point
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century44:35Compromise leadership and usable capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:20Raeder and Dönitz as peacetime and wartime naval leadersQ&A
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:43:43Burke and Richardson warn against institutional complacencyNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)17:02Destroyers as individual warshipsNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)37:06Third Sea Lords and procurement continuityNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)2:16:56Admiral Leach and the decision to fight for the FalklandsQ&A
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate15:32The Dutch Navy's missing professional chiefNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans49:09St. Vincent and Britain's layered fleet strategyQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:47Thrawn's promotion problem in Star Wars LegendsNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:03Why nicotine access was not an admiral's problemQ&A
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...0:00Burke's CNO tenure and procurementChapter
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...5:05Developing officers for tactical, strategic, and political commandNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...6:40Peacetime funding and constituency interestsNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...10:49USS Mugford and Burke's gunnery foundationNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...12:47Destroyer command, delegated initiative, and decision speedChapter
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...16:12Cape St. George: machinery strain and command judgmentNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...18:44Burke and Mitscher's fast-carrier staff partnershipNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...22:40The accelerated path to CNOChapter
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...28:11Burke and Rickover's working relationshipNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...31:02How continuity gave Burke institutional authorityNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...47:29Burke, program results, and personal creditNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...52:51Polaris submarine names and cancellation politicsNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...57:17Counterfactual: Burke in the Cuban Missile CrisisNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?12:17Harmsen's staff, salvage, and ship commandsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?15:50Why the small Dutch Navy trained adaptable officersNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?18:05Dutch officers and Allied coalition staffsNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII48:28Toulouse-Lautrec Montfa and divided French loyaltiesNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:11Destroyer commands as a window into Royal Navy family networksQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:49Rickover's institutional skills and modern public communicationQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:05How science-fiction navies handle commandQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:10Moffs, political influence, and Imperial naval commandQ&A
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?11:12Leadership turnover reshapes naval aviation procurementNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?59:47Institutions decide whether design talent reaches the fleetNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet2:19Gorshkov survives opposition to the surface fleetChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet33:38Destroyers provide a political backup plan for Soviet naval powerNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet36:48Foreign contact made Soviet naval officers political targetsNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:23:10Gorshkov's succession leaves a historiographical questionNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:30Mountbatten's ability, royal connections and risk of captureQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:21:12How Ernest King might have imposed discipline on ConstellationQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:26Mountbatten and Slim worked in different command worldsQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:32How far back could a modern Royal Navy captain command?Q&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?7:46Different rank systems complicated Allied commandNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service54:16Destroyer trial reports preserve collisions as well as performanceQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:24:12Commissioning crews turn trial evidence into operating doctrineChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:47:04A commissioning manual records culture as well as procedureNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...3:42Harwich Force turns aggression into a methodChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...8:24Vian's handling accident tests the value of candourNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...22:30Borrett at Jutland: aggressive intent and uncertain evidenceNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...24:08Effective destroyers need officers, doctrine, and shipsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...31:03Harwich memory becomes an institutional systemNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...45:05Night exercises build delegated destroyer commandChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:14:50Destroyer officers learn fleet command earlyNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global9:45The 1915 Naval Act combined fleet planning with a constrained destroyer orderChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global11:23The first CNO rules defined appointment, duties, and successionNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global22:52Mahan and Sims argued beyond a battleship-only fleetChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global56:44Sims learned destroyer command culture from Lewis BaylyChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:00:57An admiral's backing protected junior destroyer commandersNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:03:48Bayly's care for American crews sometimes bypassed their officersNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:05:32Bayly and Sims fed practical destroyer lessons into Clemson designChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live45:01Could Reginald Henderson have stopped Churchill's pause?Q&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live52:53Mrs Henderson retained influence through the naval wives networkQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live53:43Why Bruce Fraser was poorly placed to resist ChurchillQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:42:07A victorious Tovey could take the fleet to the Far EastNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII18:39HMS Kelly commemorated an officer trusted after InvergordonNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:05:54Where does the old aggressive destroyer-captain mentality belong today?Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:52Henderson, Fisher and the discussion of Admiral King's roleQ&A
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!0:01Why naval ranks reveal force structureChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!11:27Imperial Japanese ranks as an officer-development ladderChapter
- The Ranks of Some Navys of the World... Round 1 of many!16:09Personal mentoring in Imperial Japanese officer developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:06:30Naval patronage built independent officers and long institutional lineagesQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:10:29Were Royal Navy patronage lineages official?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:11:19Did officers recognise their own patronage lineage?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:12:28Did patronage lineages have names?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:13:31Did German naval patronage survive the world wars?Q&A
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!55:26The case for restoring naval procurement leadershipChapter
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!57:28Why naval procurement needs experienced senior officersNotable Point
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare25:10Black Sea Fleet losses and unequal institutional priorityNotable Point
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas2:12Constructive purpose as a leadership testChapter
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas4:50Objectives, purpose, and delegated commandNotable Point
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas6:00Recruit for ability and willingness to learnChapter
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas10:45Coordinate a large complementary teamChapter
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas12:06Respectful boundaries make teams workNotable Point
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas13:23See the pieces behind the big pictureChapter
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas14:03Lists, context, and the unwritten pictureChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII1:41Walter Hose preserved the naval serviceChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII5:24Hose built a reserve culture for wartime adaptationNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII11:24Percy Nelles confronted industrial readinessChapter
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:02:13World War I service shaped World War II alliances and prejudicesNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 335:15Why warrant officers practiced strategic planningNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 352:55Detroit's cheating undermines Fleet Problem IXNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi47:50Philip Vian's aversion to staff work and why training mattersNotable Point
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet2:52Piet Hein from captive sailor to admiralChapter
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet5:28How captivity shaped Hein's command experienceNotable Point
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet28:22Managing rank and rivalry in a mixed Dutch fleetNotable Point
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet46:09Piet Hein's approach to command and riskNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers42:49Chatfield and Henderson reveal power inside naval administrationNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…54:01Who might Henderson have prepared as his successor?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:02:02Hipper and von Spee share a baseline but differ in initiativeQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida11:01:26The Admiralty's loss of officers able to challenge ChurchillNotable Point
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:51Which admirals would make effective inspectors generalQ&A
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy0:27How Gorshkov outlasted Soviet leadersChapter
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy5:24The rank, tenure, and power behind Gorshkov's authorityNotable Point
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy28:20The inspector general who refused to retireNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception0:00Cunningham's command ethic and aversion to wasteChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception7:47Operational command over staff apprenticeshipNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception8:45What Invergordon taught Cunningham about leadershipChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception12:20Rebuilding trust through sailor welfareNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception30:18Why Cunningham resisted a second Taranto strikeNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception36:20An Admiralty team built around proven specialistsChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception40:15Team leadership and many simple plansChapter
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:43HMS Africa charged Trafalgar aloneQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:04Royal Navy factions persist through patronage and strategyQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?0:00Why retained knowledge changes the Fisher-Henderson swapChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?14:16Why the Third Sea Lord could plan beyond a personal legacyNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?54:25Henderson's credit-free method of naval reformChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:21:18Fisher makes himself more dangerous outside governmentNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:05:08Light carriers support convoys and cruiser stationsNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...0:40Judging Carter with the information available to himNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...2:06Jimmy Carter's naval model of responsibilityChapter
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...4:35From naval service to farm and public officeNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...6:49Why an outsider attempted the 1976 presidential raceNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...15:46Operational command versus the staff path to senior rankNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...16:42Using naval habits without turning Carter into a saintNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...28:40USS Seawolf plans end with a family dutyChapter
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...30:24Naval technical habits applied to farmingNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...32:17Naval integration and Carter's civil-rights stanceChapter
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...34:21Education as capability development rather than one fixed routeNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...40:00Leadership as power or responsibilityNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:20Choosing one admiral for every flag postQ&A
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy50:49Admiral Henderson preserves a balanced but undersized fleetNotable Point
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold35:49Tordenskjold fought for his crews' rewardsNotable Point
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold36:56The Gothenburg squadron and vice-admiral rankChapter
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...0:00Learning from Nelson without hero worshipChapter
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...3:56Nelson's zero-to-one-hundred command temperamentChapter
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...17:22Prize money and Nelson's present-focused temperamentNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...33:45Why flag captains sustain an admiral's commandNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...41:29Should a flag officer lead the boarding party?Notable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...49:33Nelson's wound exposed the cost of missing siege patienceChapter
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...55:43Maturity added patience without removing Nelson's appetite for riskChapter
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...57:53Command became Nelson's whole identityNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...59:31National value could conceal Nelson's personal costNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...1:04:39Would Nelson or Collingwood better fit a modern navy?Notable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:21Why Japanese naval museums pair Jones, Nelson, and TogoNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan0:49Mikawa's leadership and moral contradictionChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan3:41How repeated success distorted Japanese judgmentNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan6:21Personal and institutional failures compound in warNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan14:31Staff and sea commands prepare Mikawa for independenceChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan44:16Operational skill cannot erase command responsibilityChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan45:25Naval officers serve as national representativesNotable Point
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War31:42HMS Brilliant brought Sea Wolf and an aggressive captain to the surface groupNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:11The case for a naval sail training shipQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:35Reading Mikasa through the Six-Six Fleet's decisionsQ&A
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 10 More Mikasa & Musings of a Fluffy Submarine!1:21Different paths to naval hero statusNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean0:01Collingwood's balance of battle command and diplomacyChapter
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean33:07Silk stockings, splinter wounds, and officer welfareNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean1:01:26Quiet professionalism and the value of a trusted secondNotable Point
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation4:44Patronage rewarded ability as well as connectionNotable Point
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation20:56Why naval patronage was not simple cronyismNotable Point
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation53:19Could Suckling have filled a St Vincent-style role?Notable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...10:50Emory Land gives the Maritime Commission practical leadershipChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...43:32Leadership begins by choosing the right efficiency metricNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...57:22Liberty ships form a global-war transport systemChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...58:42Kaiser evaluates workers by what they can deliverNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...59:52Modern merchant-fleet renewal needs its own prioritiesNotable Point
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik6:02How Nidaros would reshape Norway's officer pipelineNotable Point
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold9:26Continuity beneath the ProtectorateChapter
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold25:20William Penn and accountability after the Western DesignNotable Point
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...18:02Political turnover hollows out naval commandChapter
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...23:11Samuel Story's experience did not secure authorityChapter
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...27:02Andrew Mitchell brings institutional confidenceChapter
- Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...51:43Batavian leaders reinforce failureNotable Point
- Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.8:42Operational experience behind the 1987 surface studiesNotable Point
- Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.34:22The Navy's sudden 2008 reversal toward more BurkesChapter
- Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?0:00Hugo von Pohl's leadership legacyChapter
- Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?3:22Status anxiety behind Pohl's self-presentationNotable Point
- Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?11:13A safe pair of hands in reconnaissance commandNotable Point
- Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?15:25The Kaiser's accommodating chief of Admiralty StaffChapter
- Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?33:18A plan structured to claim success and deflect failureNotable Point
- Admiral Hugo Von Pohl: Architect of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare or Short Term Improviser?41:11Patronage, achievement, and who reaches commandNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:58If Jackie Fisher's 1915 resignation were rejectedQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:23Fisher's repeated resignation threatsQ&A
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?23:00Destroyer command culture favors decisive responsibilityNotable Point
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?14:34Henderson's carrier experience challenges a false exercise lessonNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:27Why the Perisher course can allow a second attemptNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:39Aggression, mistakes, and destroyer command cultureNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:33:57Retired chiefs as mentors and institutional guardiansNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory50:53Suffren provides the counterpoint to France's naval nadirNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory1:27:24Aquilon rakes Vanguard and wounds NelsonNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence0:01Why Geoffrey Hornby won without battlesChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence13:07Political exclusion interrupted Hornby's rapid riseNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:06:16Hornby judged Nelson brilliant but too erraticNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:15:02Professional language can lose political supportNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:45Admirals worth accompanying at seaQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:20An hour with an eighteenth-century admiralQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:16:12The admiral most disappointed by today's Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:23:52The panel's leading British battleship captainQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:32:35Beatty, Seymour, and command accountabilityQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:38:49Prewar admirals suited to modern naviesQ&A
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada18:18Philip II's faith could not replace operational preparationNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit34:25A peacetime commander should keep asking questionsNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy10:02How Gorshkov survived and controlled the Soviet NavyChapter
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy16:27Why Soviet leaders treated Gorshkov as a stabilizerQ&A
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy18:19NATO repeatedly mistook Gorshkov's deputies for successorsNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy21:47Pragmatism carried Gorshkov into the Gorbachev eraNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy23:43A retirement rank instead entrenched Gorshkov's authorityNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy25:54Gorshkov survived by sharing both credit and blameNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:07:12When did the Black Sea Fleet become a personnel backwater?Q&A
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy2:41:58Gorshkov would condemn the modern Russian Navy's declineQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:53If Beresford followed Fisher as First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:20Why replacing Fisher would not guarantee a naval staffQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:09Swapping Royal Navy and US Navy high commandsQ&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:30:33The older command model behind Japan's dispersed scouting groupsNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...0:13CSS Arkansas as a study in leadership over materialChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...24:49Isaac Brown takes command of the stalled projectChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...27:43Brown mobilizes Yazoo City to finish ArkansasNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...32:17Three Confederate gunboats are burned before unarmed scoutsNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...37:59Vicksburg's view of Arkansas drives away replacementsNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...44:09A one-month career ends in strategic wasteNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...46:31Why one ship can have an outsized impactNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:09Where the worst naval leadership failures occurQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:59The limits of comparing Beatty with MacArthurQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:12Which admirals deserved latrine duty instead of command?Q&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:17Why diplomatic failure is not always an ambassador's failureQ&A
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort52:30Suffren's honors, faults, and naval legacyChapter
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield25:19Swedish factionalism invites a comparison with Joseon KoreaNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield1:18:12Prince Charles's later kingship shadows his commandNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield1:40:13Prince Charles tests the limits of naval accountabilityNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield1:58:32Leadership decides whether mass or skill prevailsChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō0:59Nagumo before the carrier warChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō47:07How ordinary aging became evidence against NagumoNotable Point
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō50:16The system that produced NagumoChapter
- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?14:26IJN rank inflation and the problem of apprentice admiralsQ&A
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power0:00Why Adam Duncan became the Royal Navy's tower of powerChapter
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power17:17HMS Torbay and Duncan's divisional leadershipNotable Point
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power1:01:25Duncan confronts mutiny with authority and pardonChapter
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power1:06:29The admiral as father and provider of the fleetNotable Point
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power1:24:23Duncan's stricter standard for officers at CamperdownNotable Point
- Admiral Duncan: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Tower of Power1:36:20Duncan's legacy of quiet professionalism and calculated riskChapter
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:09:51Horatio Nelson in the modern Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:15Judging admirals beyond their worst decisionsQ&A
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose42:41Samuel Story and the Batavian command problemChapter
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose53:53Andrew Mitchell and the Royal Navy's experience advantageChapter
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose1:47:45Mitchell's ultimatum wins the fleet without battleChapter
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:08Charles Beresford's resistance to naval technological changeQ&A
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII0:28Why Percy Nelles deserves a reassessmentChapter
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII5:32How governments turn commanders into scapegoatsNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII30:49A chief of naval staff constrained by austerityChapter
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:57Ernest King would have served the navy placed in his chargeQ&A
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!0:00Ernest King led by assembling expert teamsChapter
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!6:15Senior officers can preserve strategic experience for governmentNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:03:53Civilian allies revived King's stalled careerNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:16:36King combined fleet command with the CNO postNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:17:00King's varied career prepared him for modern global warChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...5:19Was Nelson's leadership based on trust or personal ability?Q&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...22:18The Nile campaign leads to the Malta convoy battleNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...54:23Nelson prepares captains to act after signals failChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...1:30:28A command conference leaves French ships unreadyChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...1:56:04French captains are caught away from their commandsNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:06:29Command depth keeps damaged British ships fightingChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:25:55The inactive French rear leaves only four ships to escapeChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:31:41Why the Nile was a more complete annihilation than TrafalgarNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...39:13American rank policy complicated coalition commandNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...42:02Why procurement programs need senior officersNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:01:52Spruance takes Halsey's carrier command at short noticeNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:58:08Midway's losses reflected decisions made before contactNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:08:52Nagumo's tactical skill did not fit strategic commandNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:13:10Midway's leadership lessons: information, timing, and doctrineChapter
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?17:05Why a conventional officer can win with a superior fleetNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?22:24Kronstadt experience prepares Greig for Baltic commandChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!24:28Yi Sun-sin as fleet builder rather than a Korean NelsonChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!1:08:46The institutional lesson of Yi Sun-sin's preparationNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...0:31Vian's calculated aggression and command philosophyChapter
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...41:29Conflicting Altmark orders and Vian's command discretionNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...45:19Gurkha lost the protection of the cruiser screen while improving her gunfireNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...46:43Vian accepted responsibility for HMS Afridi's lossChapter
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...47:30Mountbatten's destroyer success complicated his promotionNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...52:28Why Vian's autobiography matters as leadership evidenceNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:20:36Why Vian blamed his hesitation for HMS Naiad's lossChapter
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:30:45Keeping command present without stifling subordinate initiativeNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:41:04Force V friction tested Vian's responsibility to the Fleet Air ArmNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:59:57Why Vian chose HMS Vanguard as his Home Fleet flagshipChapter
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:04Horace Hood's possible path after surviving JutlandQ&A
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)8:05Leadership across three Russo-Swedish warsChapter
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)3:17:40Gustav wins at Frederikshamn but misses the larger prizeChapter
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)3:43:38Russian warships can be capable yet unsuited to their missionNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned0:01Why Tsushima was decided before the fleets metChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned8:04Russian autocracy versus Japan's information networksChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned39:29How Oskar Stark became Port Arthur's scapegoatChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned54:50Why Makarov's heroic reputation deserves scrutinyChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:09:13How Japanese leadership turned strategy into readinessChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:12:05The leaders who sustained Japan's Six-Six Fleet planNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley1:59Joshua Rowley and the officers who made the wooden wall workChapter
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley5:10Toulon and William Rowley's professional exampleChapter
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley18:59Pay, food, morale, and discipline aboard a warshipNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley23:01Howe as an all-round model of dependable commandNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley1:07:18The missing dependable deputy at Chesapeake and the SaintesNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley1:11:02Balancing senior leaders by temperament as well as skillChapter
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List0:34Why destroyer command rewarded calculated aggressionChapter
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List14:26Interwar training and the destroyer's need for decisive actionNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List32:17Why a commissioning captain remembers the ship as newNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List46:53Vian turns destroyer adaptability into fleet and air leadershipChapter
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin39:41Yi Sun-sin built readiness before the invasionChapter
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:24:57At Okpo, Yi caught Japan's transports unpreparedChapter
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:42:28Yi Sun-sin, Nelson, and Collingwood comparedQ&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:40:04Yi Sun-sin compared with Jackie FisherQ&A
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?12:22Holtzendorff recognized Scheer as a problem solverChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?25:20Fast promotion limited Scheer's command developmentChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?33:17George Tryon's loss made subordinate judgment essentialNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:21:00Scheer was a capable leader more than an original strategistChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic0:02Reading Jellicoe beyond heroes and scapegoatsChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic7:16Early combat and adaptable leadership in EgyptChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic13:52A steamer rescue and Jellicoe's calculated courageNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic17:59Why warrior ethos cannot replace command specializationNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic21:15HMS Victoria and the cost of unthinking obedienceNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic23:37Centurion, the Boxer Rebellion, and Jellicoe's resilienceChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic58:29Gunnery coaching that earned Grand Fleet trustNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:16:51Analytical leadership under the fog of warNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:19:44Jellicoe's legacy of quiet professional leadershipChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:27:08Which First World War leaders shaped the next navies?Notable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:26Nelson's leadership, tactics, and political blind spotsQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:22When captains could take trusted officers to a new shipQ&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!10:01Joshua Rowley as the Royal Navy's reliable deputyChapter
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!20:24Command failure at the Battle of ToulonNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!49:16Richard Howe's authority rested on trustNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:00:41Edward Hawke's talent-collecting patronageNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:38:10Experienced captains as the Navy's fleet insuranceNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:39:31Keppel's high standards created command frictionNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:01:14Rodney trusts Rowley to hold the rearChapter
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:02:53Why dependable officers disappear from naval historyNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:10:36Jamaica command and the value of quiet competenceChapter
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:19:17Why great seamanship can look uneventfulQ&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:20:14Where to find Rowley-like commanders in the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:02The panel's favorite naval officers from 1900 to 1945Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:39Beatty, Jellicoe, and the limits of a simple rivalryNotable Point
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:35Would Captain Johnnie Walker have thrived as an admiral?Q&A
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?1:31Leadership depends on context and professional judgmentChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?19:19A leader works in the moment while seeing the wider contextChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?26:20Leading upward when formal rank and practical leadership divergeNotable Point
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina18:43What Formidabile’s absence meant at LissaNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty53:51A bright idea is not yet a naval-policy solutionNotable Point
- Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership10:55Training junior officers for team leadershipNotable Point
- Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership32:45Critical thinking beyond learning by roteNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?1:10:09The likely outcome for the fleet and KimmelNotable Point
- Admiral Kempenfelt: Communication Infrastructure in the Age of Sail,0:00Kempenfelt's leadership problem: communicating at seaChapter
- Admiral Kempenfelt: Communication Infrastructure in the Age of Sail,1:41Kempenfelt's long apprenticeship in fleet operationsChapter
- Admiral Kempenfelt: Communication Infrastructure in the Age of Sail,36:15Faith, welfare, and order in Kempenfelt's leadershipNotable Point
- Admiral Kempenfelt: Communication Infrastructure in the Age of Sail,37:22Kempenfelt's legacy: communication as command infrastructureChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?39:54Salvatore Todaro risked his submarine to rescue survivorsNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?52:44Submarine chiefs carried doctrinal responsibilityChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?54:34A sensible fleet outlived its planners' understandingNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer6:36A destroyer officer shaped by speed and early commandChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer25:01Why destroyer service produced senior naval leadersNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer49:32Dartmouth and the making of Royal Navy cultureChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:52:07Naval Secretary and the Navy's senior cultureChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer2:05:32Destroyer growth and a command-culture legacyChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship39:55Ajax and the Admiralty turned technical skill into institutional authorityChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship45:14A communications officer learns command from the insideChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship1:03:31Rebuilding HMS Norfolk after the Invergordon MutinyChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship1:10:27John Kelly made leadership Somerville's final lessonChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship1:15:15Somerville learned high command by carrying information upwardChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship1:18:38Recognizing communications officers behind high commandNotable Point
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?24:33Zenker and the missing German carrier advocateNotable Point
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?39:39Soviet aviation leadership makes 1927 the openingChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!17:58Destroyers as a school of commandNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!22:31HMS Garry's machinery and seventy-person crewNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!26:34A rapid succession of First World War commandsChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!32:24Why family connections do not explain repeated independent commandNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!34:12Mountbatten, Vian, and preparation for higher commandNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!38:09Demanding high performance while looking after the crewNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!42:07Why destroyer officers became wartime admiralsNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!49:22How early command can disrupt promotion plansNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!50:59Can an officer work within a system and command independently?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:12:02The Royal Navy's ideal of a small-ship manNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:38:31Dartmouth and the culture of wartime officersChapter
- 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
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:35:02From Iceland command to shaping promotionsChapter
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…0:25Raleigh as a visionary who struggled with executionChapter
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…22:53Why leadership depends on the crisisNotable Point
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…49:12Inspiration must be matched by detail and capable subordinatesChapter
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:43:34An unresolved illness pattern among senior Royal Navy officersNotable Point
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias18:15Reading military comedy without forgetting its human costNotable Point
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition35:50Reginald Hall's command culture aboard Queen MaryChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition41:00Hall, Bentinck, and Prowse in commandNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?0:52Using Henderson and Fisher to test which decisions matteredChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?13:47A prewar health crisis stripped away senior naval leadershipChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?39:15Hunt-class errors show the cost of a broken apprenticeshipNotable Point
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:12:02Prewar admiral attrition outpaced the First World WarNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:25Itō Sukeyuki and the leadership behind the Six-Six FleetChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class7:38Itō's command record and ten years atop the Naval General StaffChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class12:50How Japanese naval patronage turned policy into a fleet planChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class17:30Why reform leaders sometimes need a subordinate's reportNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class18:35Yamamoto Gonnohyōe as reformer, minister, and crisis prime ministerChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class57:59The Six-Six Fleet was a coalition design, not a prophet's blueprintNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:13Stress, lead exposure, and senior Royal Navy deathsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:58Why humane familiarity can strengthen naval commandNotable Point
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras0:00Saumarez turned defeat into victory in six daysChapter
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras1:13:34Saumarez was an organizer willing to challenge NelsonChapter
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras1:17:25Algeciras poses a command-after-defeat problemNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live46:35Charles Knowles's influence over VernonNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live1:14:46Vernon's record did not make him an amphibious commanderNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live2:16:00Ogle and Knowles inherit a ruined Caribbean forceNotable Point
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live2:36:50Could Admiral Byng have improved the command?Q&A
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...0:00Reading an admiral's priorities in a warshipChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...2:24How naval officers narrow the ship designer's choicesNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:44:19Successive CNOs shape the Arleigh Burke classChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:47:43Zumwalt's questions begin a long institutional transitionNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!20:06Why naval leadership cannot be ranked by battles aloneNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:11Lord St Vincent takes command of the Imperial NavyQ&A
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…0:00Jervis's impossible standards and effective fleetsChapter
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:15:09Roger Odell and the apparently ruined savingsNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:39:14Jervis's leadership legacy and modern warfareChapter
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes0:41Rodney and the Royal Navy's officer factionsChapter
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes8:33Judging Rodney in his own centuryNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes14:13Strategic speed and Rodney's formative mentorsChapter
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes28:54Patronage as professional talent managementNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes35:25Why admirals needed captains who could think for themselvesNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes49:17Byng's execution and the unequal risks of commandNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes56:54Flag rank, prize money, and Rodney's family ambitionChapter
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes1:54:09Why Rodney received no further fleetChapter
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes1:57:29Leaving Formidable behind and returning in MontaguNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes2:00:58Tracing Rodney's command style across generationsNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:36Forward presence needs maintenance and less paperworkQ&A
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command7:01Henry May builds a school for admirals and staff officersChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command26:52Astley Cooper Key establishes Greenwich for practical professionalismChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command31:16William Loring joins technical knowledge to historical awarenessChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command34:37Frederic Fisher prepares all-round officers for wartime expansionChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command39:29Naval command fuses technical possibility with human judgmentNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command51:03Augustus Agar models aggressive professional leadershipChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command53:59Operation Fish tests Agar's care for HMS Emerald's crewNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:06:58Conflict management asks both what can be done and what should be doneNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked9:38Why noble rank alone did not make a Lord High AdmiralNotable Point
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked37:08How First and Third Sea Lords divided global and domestic workChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:09:51Keppel's warning about party politics and naval commandChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:56:08The First Sea Lord as political and naval intermediaryNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!14:01Rodney's ambition, prejudice, and Chesapeake counterfactualChapter
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!31:31Why naval patronage still required competenceNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!49:51Rodney at the Second Battle of Cape FinisterreChapter
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!1:21:33John Byng and the demand that admirals engageNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!1:46:28Why Rodney and Monckton made joint warfare workNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...0:00Santa Cruz as Spain's adaptable naval professionalChapter
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...3:20The Bazán family's naval professionChapter
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...14:03Ottoman wars and the skill of managing noble commandersChapter
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...50:03Philip II's power exceeded his decision-makingNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...58:02Why the author of doctrine could also discard itNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him0:01Farragut's sixty-year naval careerChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him10:18Learning selectively from David PorterNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him41:25The challenge of leading inexperienced mixed forcesNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:01:19Why experience selected Farragut for commandNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:11:41Farragut lashed in Hartford's riggingNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:15:47Patronage, apprenticeship, and proven meritNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:22:39The Union's rare complete command candidateNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:25:07Could Farragut serve in a modern navy?Notable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'6:00Apprenticeship, education, and preparation for commandChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'21:12Command before a standardized officer corpsNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'23:52Commanding independent maritime entrepreneursChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'38:08Managing Drake, Hawkins, senior officers, and Dutch alliesChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'58:21Four squadrons turn rivalry into coordinated pressureNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:03:51Shipowners volunteer valuable vessels as fireshipsChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:17:08Leadership through personality, incentive, and respectChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:31:43The modern leadership lesson: make people want to followNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:27:37Percy Scott disobeys a signal to prevent a collisionChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...0:00Why Tōgō became Japan's NelsonChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:28:34Building infrastructure after TsushimaNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:35:29The operational culture Tōgō left JapanChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:38:46Symbolic heroes versus the people who shape naval cultureNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:01:04Edward Russell masters ships, people, and a conflicted systemChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:24:43Honest Admiralty leaders still had to work within patronageQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:31:41George Byng turns mentorship into institutional continuityChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:47:20Privy Council appointment carried naval expertise beyond officeNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live1:56:44Augustus Keppel shows the cost of political factionChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:05:01Samuel Hood was a fleet commander in an administrator's chairChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:16:37Hood's working pace collided with dockyard costsNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:33:34William Parker lasts eleven days as First Naval LordNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:10:42The monarch's principal naval aide signaled future leadershipNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:43:45Why the First Sea Lord could not command the board like a fleetQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:12:10Choosing a captain for HMS Thunder ChildQ&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?35:59Why advocacy does not guarantee strategic commandNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?37:12Aube's battleship halt as political theatreNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?39:47Civilian leadership and compromise between service factionsNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:06:35Factional leadership turns procurement into a political contestChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:17:20Doctrine becomes destructive when treated as an absoluteNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:18:41National pride and learning from other countriesNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:57:11Naval writers and the burden of officer paperworkNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:01:29The Sea Lords' responsibilities and the Admiralty boardNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:10:52Halsey in a rapidly changing Pacific warQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!45:45Sergey Gorshkov learned war on the DanubeNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience24:43Naval families as officer schoolsNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience35:24Bainbridge teaches fleet coordinationChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience57:55Executive-officer and diplomatic trainingChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:03:30Farragut advances the careers of fellow officersNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:11:00Family duty shapes Farragut's command choicesNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:28:10Ordnance expertise becomes institutional leadershipNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:02:18Why Farragut chose USS Hartford as his flagshipNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:25:36The Navy forces New Orleans to yieldChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:36:21Formal and effective command diverge at VicksburgNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:43:12Tides, timing, and joint-command friction at Port HudsonNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:19:54Farragut climbs for a commander's viewNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:25:17The calculated decision behind 'Damn the torpedoes'Chapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:30:14Jellicoe's torpedo decisions and the limits of hindsightNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:08:34Farragut led wherever the organization needed himNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:15:26Farragut's leadership: detail, support, and calculated riskNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea0:00The Battle of the Barents Sea as a leadership testChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea9:02Tactical commanders, darkness, and independent actionChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea15:00The Kriegsmarine's command pool narrowed its leadership choicesNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea17:24Why Sherbrooke kept radio traffic limitedNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea19:15Churchill set ambitions while naval commanders worked out the meansNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea22:07Senior-officer losses disrupted naval command continuityNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:52:43The battle's leadership lesson: set objectives people can achieveChapter
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:01:45Why Somerville and Harwood receive unfair wartime judgmentsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:15:44Destroyer captains who attacked much heavier shipsQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)9:50Vernon Haggard's active-service route to the DanubeNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)54:18Danube command as a Soviet admiral's proving groundNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral9:13Building a naval office without doctrine or precedentNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral15:54How everyday leadership becomes organizational cultureNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership43:17When leaving a Tribal-class destroyer looked like promotion or punishmentQ&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live4:10Why the Battle of the Barents Sea was a leadership testChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live11:56Where is the line between courage and recklessness?Q&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live14:27Command from destroyer bridge to national strategyChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live14:27How damage restrictions helped British destroyers control the fightNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live24:10How destroyer service built trust and wartime command skillNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live33:23Tovey's winter convoys and Raeder's missing preparation timeNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:06:48Operation Regenbogen's contradictory ordersChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:03:06Did Town-class cruisers receive the best captains?Q&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:05:39Controlled aggression as the British advantageNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:32:01How institutions and infrastructure decided the battleChapter
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral0:30Why Beatty may have fitted a Mediterranean commandChapter
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral2:07Horace Hood as the Grand Fleet's battlecruiser commanderNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral4:09Why Beatty was not next in line for the Grand FleetNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral25:01How institutions create command mismatchesNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral42:19Lepanto's flagship duel made command experience decisiveNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral44:37Why senior command still depends on service expertiseNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral55:17Specialists can be misassigned at every naval rankNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 68:34Teaching officers how to read and lead wardroom seminarsNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:32:12Historical research explains how naval adaptation worksNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:35:02Langley's thousand questions as a model of naval innovationNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:39:54Shipboard constraints can create informal spaces for adaptationNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:49:02What makes a good naval leader?Q&A
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:50:35Why naval officers study engineering and the humanitiesNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:56:48Mahan and Sims made trust the center of leadershipChapter
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:59:30Sims taught future junior officers how to exercise initiativeNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 62:05:44Reading supplies experience beyond an officer's own careerNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 62:09:18Making reading time visible in a naval workplaceNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 62:13:34Destroyers as a school for wartime commandNotable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:39:39Fisher's return as First Sea Lord was a political appointmentQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:32:59Suffren deserves wider recognition as an operational admiralQ&A
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War27:23Kountouriotis treats risk as the price of naval usefulnessChapter
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War1:03:30The victors and defeated teach opposite leadership lessonsChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 510:32Black Sea Fleet maintenance and political command appointmentsNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 543:00Sims's letters expose the command dispute behind convoy policyNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 549:21Unfinished wartime problems shaped later naval capabilitiesNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 557:48Command experience on auxiliaries changes how officers understand warChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 559:53Logistics commanders who had sustained and attacked fleetsNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates30:36Diamantina's construction, reserve years, and protective mottoNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:27:57Jackie Fisher: anti-war deterrent, not a hesitant wartime commanderQ&A
- Battle of Elli1:04:42Kountouriotis accepts the risks of fighting for sea controlNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:08:14Kountouriotis takes command of Georgios AverofChapter
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 419:12A portrait of the Royal Navy's postwar divisionsNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 448:16The US Navy's Culture of Excellence frameworkNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 457:08How Tribal-class crews became the elite of the eliteNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:01:30How HMCS Haida teaches an aggressive service traditionNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:04:20Building common naval culture in a fragmented ageQ&A
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:11:27Beatty, Somerville, and the cost of choosing staff by connectionNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:53:41Why Geoffrey Hornby was the Royal Navy's safest 1890s commanderQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 938:28Henry Pelly and the rapid creation of a reliable crewChapter
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 953:18Beatty, Pelly, and the limits of battlecruiser command cultureNotable Point
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:11:23Unconventional commanders turn known ships into capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...11:48Admiral Duncan as an overlooked Age of Sail leaderQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:25:04Why American amphibious commanders are easily overlookedQ&A
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings19:05Britannic's evacuation and Captain Bartlett's command choicesNotable Point
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians35:06Roman officers moved naturally between army and fleetChapter
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians39:30Carausius turns naval expertise into a breakaway sea empireNotable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:11:03Miklós Horthy rose through combat command and imperial trustQ&A
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates44:55Discipline saved nearly everyone aboard the burning HindostanChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting23:38Reginald Bacon corrects a failed assumption about U-boatsNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:03:51How Jellicoe won construction battles without confrontationNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:10:01Jellicoe's technology and Fisher's politicsNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:21:43Noel Laurence's work across submarines and naval aviationNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax31:04What Yonai's leadership reveals about Nagumo's reputationQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:53:25How royal favor strengthened Fisher's bureaucratic positionQ&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:22:48Dogger Bank could remove both German leaders and safety lessonsNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!32:18Officer losses and French naval effectivenessNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!34:07Camperdown and the third-rate battle lineChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!36:41Camperdown's lopsided captures and casualtiesNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...1:00:18Command depth keeps the Dogger Bank pursuit movingNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...1:10:45Could Cradock command the Tiger Cubs at Dogger Bank?Q&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...1:13:29Would another admiral correct Beatty's signals?Q&A
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII16:37Historical layers change interpretation, not eventsNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII58:23Halsey replaces Ghormley before Santa CruzChapter
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....18:56Why Admiral Yonai refused a naval carNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:27:39Santa Cruz and Gravina among Spain's strongest admiralsQ&A
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...8:28Operation Bumblebee and sideways leadershipNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier53:04Germany's balanced peacetime fleetNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!4:27Reginald Henderson and institutional naval-aviation leadershipNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!22:08Lion and Beatty's loss could reshape Jutland commandQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!56:59Defining the first naval aviator to command a carrierQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:04:06Fisher backing Battenberg could divide influence from managementQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:22:18Frank Jack Fletcher was capable but not needed in the main rotationQ&A
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers53:47Fisher's Baltic idea needed a real staff systemNotable Point
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers1:26:18Tsingtao echoes Fisher's response to TsushimaNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!3:49Henderson's leverage over Royal Navy constructionNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!39:35Why carrier flagships ran out of staff spaceNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:36:34A decisive Jutland could transform the admirals' reputationsNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:57:05Togo could carry British constitutional practice back to JapanNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 28:29The Kaiser's temperament makes Prince Henry essentialNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:40:50Wasp's orderly evacuation through the sternNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:44:13King George VI's possible naval careerQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:38:25Judging the leading admirals of the twentieth centuryQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:14:01Beatty's failure to think like an admiralQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:23:36Turning a Type 45 into a task-force command cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:24:41Admiral Henderson as a wartime First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:27:10Churchill's choice of Lord Cork and the Norway command problemNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission8:44Torpedo-boat habits and fleet commandNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission31:19Promotion without broad sea commandNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission45:16Learning a cruiser command through private conversationsChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission50:59Building the Kriegsmarine's officer corpsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission51:55Personnel policy, Nazi pressure, and destroyer identityNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission58:48From Gdynia to the Humber minefieldChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:18:53Glorious, damaged battlecruisers, and Lutjens's promotionNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:46:01Why a disagreement with Hoffmann remained manageableNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:09:37Why Lutjens expected to sacrifice BismarckChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:20:18An unexplained refusal to follow the cloud coverNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:34:15A successful radar escape compromised by radio trafficNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:41:41Bismarck's fuel crisis and conflicting morale messagesChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!15:25Swapping Admiral Lee into the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!27:55Cradock and Troubridge after alternate victoriesQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:13:34French 80-gun ships and the limits of design qualityQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:57:35An Admiral King-style First Sea LordQ&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests2:30Evidence, audiences, and the historian's limitsNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests6:35Family networks shaped Mitchell's politics of persuasionNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests21:24World War I career and the truth problemNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests35:30Four rival Navy aviation visions united against MitchellChapter
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests47:17Media leverage shaped Project B's command problemNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests1:11:28Menoher, Patrick, and Moffett contain MitchellChapter
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests1:14:04The Mingo War exposed another air-power overclaimNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests1:16:55The court-martial turned on false factual claimsNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered12:03Yonai as a hidden naval-political figureNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered57:13Yonai, Yamamoto, and IJN aviation trainingNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:40:17Yonai's influence behind and before the curtainQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:09:00Yonai's money, patronage, and role as a trusted confidantNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:27:47What failed assassination plots reveal about Yonai's powerNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:42:47Yonai's economic policy through trusted specialistsQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:36:57Plunging fire and the point to abandon shipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:41:20Edward Seymour instead of Fisher in 1914Notable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:24:20Why Henderson could push the conversion through in 1938Notable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?13:01Mitchell's Hawaii claims and the limits of prophetic reputationNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?33:22Professional dissent still requires honest evidenceNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?57:35Mitchell's front-line flying risked a developing air organizationNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?1:01:02Mitchell, St. Mihiel, and disputed command creditChapter
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?1:03:41World War I success and the leadership problemNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?1:06:11Postwar demobilization reshapes Mitchell's Air Service careerChapter
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:10:03Bombing-test publicity and Washington treaty politicsNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:14:42Mason Patrick restores command discipline after Project BChapter
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:23:56Mitchell's followers and his difficulty working with peersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:39Women as sailing-era admiral staffNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:50:52Dewey's Admiral of the Navy rank as statusNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote17:00Destroyer aggression in cruiser commandQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:22:57Shipboard high jinks as a command toolQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!29:03Why staff work mattered before 1914Chapter
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!36:06Fisher, secrecy, and naval leadership limitsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!44:05Why naval leadership could not redirect Britain in 1914Notable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!48:20Battenberg and the Navy's political influence gapNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off11:45Pellew's prize money in IndefatigableQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off15:20Warspite inside Narvik fjordQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off19:29If Nelson had obeyed the retreat order at CopenhagenQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:19:51Why Beatty rose beyond his best command levelQ&A
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast48:48Edward Beach brings combat experience and history to commandChapter
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast54:46Planning a submerged route around the worldNotable Point
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast56:08A kidney stone tests submerged-command judgmentNotable Point
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast1:06:50Promotions reveal crew quality and Beach's morale practiceNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1013:02Thomas Slade and the design systemChapter
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1035:09Raisonnable and Nelson's first Ardent-class linkNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 101:07:52Edward Pellew and the incentives of prize warfareNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems59:32Reeves makes unanswered questions a doctrinal strengthNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:49:27Edward L. Beach and the risk of SandblastChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:03:57Q&A: Why destroyer officers can be ready for fleet commandQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:08:22Why Beatty and the Leander class are overratedQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:17:30Nelson's reputation without death at TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:18:17Underappreciated Royal Navy leaders and battleshipsQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...0:34How naval reputations are builtChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...7:08Reassessing Prince Louis of BattenbergChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...13:45Could Battenberg remain First Sea Lord if Fisher died in January 1914?Q&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...15:05Why administration is First Sea Lord strategyNotable Point
- 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...23:17Political attacks on Battenberg's Dreadnought appointmentChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...32:20Choosing an executive officer amid attacks on nationalityChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...51:50Factional pressure at the AdmiraltyChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:03:07How Fisher's death stabilizes BattenbergNotable 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...1:27:43War Staff personnel and political compromiseNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:50:20Could a Mediterranean command suit Beatty?Notable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:04:16Battenberg on inventions and naval industryNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:14:09Naval aviation under a longer Battenberg-Jellicoe successionNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:15:26Battenberg's forgotten War Staff legacyChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!35:28Sceptre and the broken French battle line at TrincomaleeChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!42:24British praise for Suffren and the cost of punishing captainsNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:04:53Najaden trusts confined waters to deter DictatorNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:20:4064-gun captains and demanding independent commandsNotable 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?7:46Why Battenberg remains the practical First Sea LordNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?19:04Why Battenberg recorded agreements after arguing in privateNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?33:43Battenberg's record in training and readinessNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:02:37Why a successful Battenberg might still be underratedNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:11:33Who would succeed Jellicoe?Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:19:19Could Battenberg's health withstand the wartime workload?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!0:28Valparaiso set glory seeking against a prepared professionalChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!19:01Porter's victory over Alert and the risks of glory-seeking commandNotable 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!41:22Bainbridge and Stewart posed a hypothetical command problemNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!52:11Porter sought a warship duel his carronade frigate could not controlNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!55:56James Hillyar brought decades of frigate warfare to the PacificNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:07:24Should Phoebe have closed to give Essex an honorable fight?Q&A
- 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!1:38:53Hillyar refused Porter's duel while reinforcements closed inNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:00:47A powder explosion revealed Essex's collapsing command systemNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:02:40Wind, casualties, and too many flags complicated Essex's surrenderNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:08:29Porter blamed dishonor while Hillyar praised his opponentNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:12:24Porter turned release aboard a cartel ship into an escape storyNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:19:42A specialized warship fails when the enemy refuses its preferred fightNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:23:34Smoke and competing flags obscured Essex's surrenderNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:24:30Would Bainbridge have waited at Valparaiso with Constitution and Essex?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier45:47Moffett, King, and the leadership models behind naval aviationChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:56:50Did conspiracy or command pressure send Akron into the storm?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier3:32:13Who could have replaced Chatfield as First Sea Lord?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism10:56Glory hunting meets professional sea power at ValparaísoNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:07:13Porter reaches the Pacific with combat experience but little command supportChapter
- 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 Professionalism1:44:18Hillyar tries to win inside the neutral harbor without firingNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:46:24Flags and slogans compete for Chilean opinionNotable Point
- 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 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 Professionalism2:14:37Planted intelligence and a failed leeward decoyChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:26:19Mast loss and anchoring surrender range controlChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:42:28Damage breaks Essex's command system before surrenderNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:53:03Porter and Hillyar write opposite battle reportsChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:02:33Porter's heroic memory exceeds the cruise's material resultsChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:10:52Porter's promotion skills outlast his impulsive command styleChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:15:37Why did Porter burn Hector?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:16:10Porter's myth overwhelms the Valparaíso historyNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:21:35A hindsight agenda for the prewar US NavyQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:31:55Why Admiral Pratt's leadership record deserves a balanced readingQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 63:26Political economy collides with credible capital-ship designNotable Point
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)1:00:01Unit history turns inherited reputation into confidence and obligationNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign51:27Sacrificial cruisers fix the enemy for destructionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:07:24Target fixation overturns a favourable destroyer duelNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle25:17Second Fleet turns plans into Tokyo Express operationsChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle36:06Aaron Merrill balances risk with available force massChapter
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 558:33Philip Vian escapes a battleship-heavy force at First SirteNotable Point
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...24:19The Venator as a carrier built on delegated trustChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:28:35Leadership at ship, squadron, and theater level demands different skillsNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:35:49Merrill and Halsey bring aggressive, adaptive commandChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:43:00Why could interwar navies give risky destroyer officers second chances?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:54:25Which naval commanders deserve more attention?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:51:04Royal Navy commanders whose stars came late or not at allQ&A
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)1:26:30Mountbatten and Vian reached high command by different routesNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:44:57Rebuilding the fast force after a Dogger Bank disasterQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:50:03How losing Beatty could change naval commandNotable Point
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese41:34Wilson Brown and the politics of American flag rankChapter
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese55:39Frank Jack Fletcher learns carrier warfare on the jobChapter
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese58:56William Halsey and the offensive alpha strikeChapter
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:52:28Why submariners could command early aircraft carriersQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:16:08Wilson Brown's command career and presidential serviceChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:26:54Fletcher's route from surface commands to carrier raidsChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:29:58Why Ernest King formed a poor opinion of BeattyQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:33:49Selecting commanders before their wartime ability is knownNotable Point
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:56Which warship would be the best command?Q&A
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?1:22:26Procurement risk explains the missed helicopter revolutionChapter
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals33:22How unit heritage creates a can-do cultureNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:24:01A four-book path from fleet overview to command biographyChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:19:33A directory maps Imperial Japanese Navy commands and captainsChapter
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!15:11Bligh and Codrington in a modern navyQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:09:25Which naval leaders to save or remove before 1939Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:23:42Who could lead the US Navy instead of KingQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:48:00Which admiral most shaped World War IIQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:53:03Swapping Beatty, Byng, and CollingwoodQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:55:47Nelson commanding the Grand FleetQ&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War25:34Matching command experience to different wartime shipsNotable Point
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes28:04Mountbatten's promotion outpaced his experience at seaNotable Point
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes34:49Churchill's confidence shaped Mountbatten's rapid promotionQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:05:10Vian, Somerville, Cunningham, Harwood, Fraser, and Jellicoe merit ship namesQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:27:52Mountbatten's political skill distinguished him from Cork and OrreryQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:55:05Wilhelm II was unlikely to abandon rivalry with Britain through persuasionQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:58:15Dudley Pound was the kinder senior officer to work forQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:17:18Cunningham was the practical successor if Pound retired earlyQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:19:28The most influential admiral depends on the causal chain being measuredQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:44:53Fisher's political campaign distracted Battenberg during the Coronel crisisNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:47:53Fisher's earlier brilliance would not guarantee useful Second World War leadershipQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 26:16Admiral Duncan, mutiny, and command authorityNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 211:50Aggression as Royal Navy doctrineChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 225:23Command culture from Tsushima to task forcesChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 231:18Vian's willingness to risk the carrier forceChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 258:45Translating between the Third Sea Lord and the DNCNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:06:39Wartime promotion and command depthNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 215:15Henderson was prepared for Mediterranean or Far East commandChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 219:09Henderson turned naval requirements into funded shipsNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency35:31Nakhimov and Novosilsky's complementary command rolesChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency42:31Osman Pasha and Adolphus Slade in Ottoman naval reconstructionChapter
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response19:20Andrew Lambert's Admirals as a starting point on FisherNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response20:16Comparative admiral history demands multilingual researchNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back8:20Dove presents Langsdorff as a gentlemanly cruiser commanderNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back15:32Harwood converts Langsdorff's delays into an interception estimateNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat50:50Jacky Fisher's ideas across his careerQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)0:40Empress Augusta Bay and the officers who shaped the postwar navyChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)27:34Merrill brought destroyer command and radar gunnery experienceNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:52:45Who would replace an injured battlecruiser commander in 1915?Q&A
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty0:01Why Sturdee is the plausible replacement for BeattyChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty9:37A battlecruiser command that changes the succession questionNotable Point
- 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 Beatty1:14:09Jellicoe and Sturdee inherit the victoryNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)36:20Why Vian was aboard HMS Cossack for the Altmark incidentNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:44:33How admirals shape policy without controlling itQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:16:40Why small coastal boats could be reconfigured so readilyNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 942:21Fairfax carries forward a political admiral’s workNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 946:23Nelson as a visible instrument of deterrenceChapter
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:21:55Why surviving Jutland would not guarantee a top-five admiralQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:26:55The crowded field beyond Britain's top five admiralsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:54:28Why Harwood struggled after success at seaQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:00:45Where naval promotion becomes strategic and politicalQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:22:54Why some admirals belonged at sea and others ashoreQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:13:08Fisher and the personal levers of naval policyNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built33:50How earlier officer losses narrowed wartime leadershipQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?41:16Why a good captain could make a poor admiralNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer41:21Why Bruce Fraser could not jump directly to First Sea Lord in 1940Q&A
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 324:01How revolution stripped away naval expertiseNotable Point
- Navigation Acts: Wars, Greed & Infrastructure1:20:27Royal Navy nonintervention in the Glorious RevolutionNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture38:04An alternative leader for the Imperial German NavyQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:15:39Why the English fleet remained inactive in 1688Chapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail52:31Did fear of Byng push Graves into battle?Q&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:29:01Was the loss entirely self-inflicted?Q&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:47:55Who really led the Nore mutiny?Notable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years18:35Why gunnery training did not define a battleship admiralNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years27:17How destroyer flotillas trained future senior commandersNotable Point
- Theodore Roosevelt: Theory in Action - A Naval Theorist who became President!14:21Chesapeake and Shannon: training over excusesNotable Point
- Theodore Roosevelt: Theory in Action - A Naval Theorist who became President!49:00Preparation matters more than impressive hardwareNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:40:17Shannon boards Chesapeake after its command breaks downNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:52:48How a larger carrier force could elevate carrier leadershipQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:02:02Henderson's career under a more senior carrier commandQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:03:30Reginald Henderson's possible wartime commandsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:19:17Henderson's naval politics and Cunningham's fleet commandQ&A
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)5:18Fleet command is more than leading from the frontNotable Point
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)8:32Direct action can compete with command responsibilityNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)51:47The Terror removed an experienced French admiralNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)55:03Foul-weather Jack reached Grenada after a storm-marked careerNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)1:45:21Saumarez and Linois were dependable fleet commandersNotable Point
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 820:05The Renown-Hood collision and disputed command responsibilityNotable Point
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 821:00Sydney Bailey and the difference between staff skill and sea commandNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda3:43Building an Adriatic fleet through long command tenuresChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)24:37A young Wren's result changes fleet instructionNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney56:28How Admiral Henderson's survival could deepen Royal Navy command optionsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:02:08Why famous admirals could slow, but not stop, postwar cutsQ&A
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole40:31Old battleships can enforce convoy mission disciplineNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 227:49A grounding exposed the cost of uncertain navigationNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...9:31How a 'hero ship' identity shapes crew performanceNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...29:55Why the Tribal destroyers raced to NarvikChapter
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?9:12Why Richard Howe could drive the campaignNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?29:44Villaret-Joyeuse: courage without Howe's command depthNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?34:23Howe's command bench and the flag-captain systemNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:14:19Howe leads the line break himselfNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:48:33A historian's caution about courage under fireNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:28:16Honours, wounds, and disputed creditChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon17:14A shortened Jutland changes Beatty and Jellicoe's careersNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon59:13Institutional division blocked known shell reformNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... This really did not end well...1:24:32Target fixation leaves the rest of the fleet without attentionNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?8:04Lütjens's opposition to racial policy coexisted with obedience to the regimeChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?10:31What separates a willing follower from a useful idiot?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?23:13Would Lütjens have allowed himself to be captured?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?23:47A torpedo-boat career shaped Lütjens's command limitsChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?30:23World cruises broadened Lütjens, but the Reichsmarine narrowed his command pathChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?41:18Small crews gave Lütjens little practice in sharing command decisionsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?46:10Staff work did not reproduce the isolation of command at seaNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?59:24Military authority could conceal weak communication habitsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:04:04Lütjens's preferred way of learning did not scale to fleet commandChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:29:53The Polish campaign exposed both Lütjens's limits and the Kriegsmarine's promotion problemChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:33:58Was there a better officer to promote instead of Lütjens?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:39:43Marschall's illness put Lütjens into an unfamiliar capital-ship commandChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:44:14Norway's timetable carried a human cost before battle beganNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:56:26Saving the capital ships meant abandoning the force Lütjens had builtNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:02:12Operation Berlin's success produced a revealing staff-room critiqueNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:15:22Raeder ordered Rheinübung despite Lütjens's objectionsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:17:51Before Rheinübung, Lütjens expected sacrifice and withheld the Nazi saluteNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:33:02Was Lütjens surrounded by yes-men?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:38:10Lancelot Holland's career shows the command experience Lütjens lackedNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:59:04A victory-or-death speech told Bismarck's crew what Lütjens expectedNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?4:05:29Why did Lütjens not scuttle Bismarck before the final battle?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?4:17:37Lütjens's final command demanded more experience than his career providedNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 21:32:29USS Franklin: damage control and command failureQ&A
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 1029:54Why Renown mattered so much to FisherChapter
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War30:35The naval legacy behind Blanco Encalada’s nameNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War1:16:50Jorge Montt from fleet command to the presidencyNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 939:46When admirals could argue openly for replacement shipsNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?11:36Philip Vian and hands-on senior commandNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...33:38Which screen portrayal of Admiral Halsey is most accurate?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:25:42How shipboard command trains officers to allocate scarce resourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:41:39Alene Duerk, Grace Hopper, and women at flag rankQ&A
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 720:39Miguel Grau and Huáscar's Peruvian legacyNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword45:55Harwood's difficulty with Mediterranean command politicsNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron31:50Why Penn's successor is uncertainNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron32:50Command continuity carried the squadron into the nineteenth centuryNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover22:29Rickover's political power and retirementNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover25:24Rickover's naval career and politically backed promotionNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover26:41Rickover's doctrine of personal responsibilityNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)17:06James II as a commander but not a politicianNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)47:27Prince Rupert and the loneliness of commandNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?17:04An early German retreat could reshape Beatty's careerNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:00:40Better shells do not remove Beatty's command riskNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:19:39Beatty's signal failure was not Seymour's aloneNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books12:25Why foreign flag rank did not carry back into Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books25:01Why staff service did not guarantee a plum naval appointmentQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:37:29Lord Keith's request for an English peerageNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:40:23Why experienced captains stayed in frigate commandsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)1:43:54Admiral Yi and maritime perspectiveNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?31:24Who actually shaped a battleship designChapter
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?34:53Admiralty arguments behind the designNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:04:33Churchill, Admiralty offices, and oil fuelNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:37:28Would keeping Jellicoe at the Admiralty improve the design?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:28:57Was Gordon Moore technically unqualified to choose the boilers?Q&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:19:29Louis XIV's purge of Huguenot naval expertiseQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:34:18Scheer, Holtzendorff, and German naval strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:20:34Which admirals won the confidence of wartime leaders?Q&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?13:50Japan's naval command in January 1939Notable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?16:29British ships and commanders available in 1939Chapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?48:41Far Eastern credibility leaves little room to back downNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:39:01Japanese fleet command depends on political pressure ashoreNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia25:01Arthur Phillip, John Hunter, and fleet command at seaNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia28:25HMS Supply as the colony's lifelineNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia1:04:01Arthur Phillip's civil administration and Indigenous relationsChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites49:20Anson's Pacific expedition: unsuitable troops, disease, and ship lossesChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites54:33Anson's depleted crews: care, prize money, and naval disciplineNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites56:06Keeping Centurion at sea: Tinian repairs and Macau diplomacyNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:12:41Experienced NCOs in Britain's Napoleonic army and navyQ&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:00:15HMS Supply as the colony's lifelineNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)1:43:51William Bligh's navigation skill and command failuresNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)2:17:48Consensus leadership under Phillip and HunterNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)2:19:31Arthur Phillip's preparation for colonial commandChapter
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)2:25:15Portuguese service gives Phillip an earlier convict commandNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response18:31Prince Heinrich offers an anti-Tirpitz German succession pathQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response57:42Channel battle casualties could alter naval leadership and royal successionNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response1:15:09Heavy officer losses could make aviation a Royal Navy force multiplierNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?38:12French naval rank and political weightNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?54:03Why French naval chiefs carried less political weightNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:37Invincible name shaped battlecruiser expectationsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class14:06Gorshkov accumulated Soviet and foreign decorationsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class27:02Soviet portraits displayed repeated full medalsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class37:39Royal Navy officers sometimes drafted colonial constitutionsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine12:30Russian command culture limited RozhestvenskyQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine17:17Purges and infrastructure both crippled Stalin's fleetQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine20:42Hirohito's approval left Yamamoto responsible for Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine59:08Prestige weakened Russian naval professionalismNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:42:38Who commands if Jellicoe and Beatty are lost?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect6:25Command confusion behind CoronelChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect32:58Earlier influences on Wilhelm II's overseas fleetQ&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:14:47Was Cradock too aggressive?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:20:38Patey's concentrated Pacific forceChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:36:43Sturdee was misplaced in the Admiralty war staffChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:52:23Cradock was an experienced professionalChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect2:34:25Troubridge's court-martial haunted CradockChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:26:49Would another navy have surrendered in Bismarck's position?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:39:22How Coronel's command and intelligence failures convergedChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect43:25Honolulu, command judgment, and moral courageNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...8:38A Falklands War panel built around firsthand commandersQ&A
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service17:22Open bridges and destroyer commandNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service46:38Athabaskan's 1949 protest and the command responseChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:10:20Interwar command continuity carried political riskNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:46:12The Great Purge erased Soviet naval command memoryChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:00:46Kuznetsov reached Soviet naval command at thirty-fourChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:09:34Kuznetsov's fleet readiness and wartime prioritiesChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:12:30Kuznetsov's postwar reversals and critical memoirsChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy0:15Project 58 and Gorshkov's ascentChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy21:48Names that signaled rivals, traditions, and virtuesNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:46:54Admirals on Samuel Hood's path to commandChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:00:54A longer Tryon career gives Fisher an earlier reform baseQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine0:14The capable cruiser tradition Germany failed to inheritNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine0:55Admiral von Spee and a lost cruiser influenceNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19390:49Tsushima's logistical feat and damaged naval inheritanceChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19395:35Tsushima stripped experience from the Black Sea FleetNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193937:31Why the new state still needed naval specialistsNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193957:45The Great Purge destroyed military and naval expertiseChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19391:05:33Five-month leadership cycles erased institutional memoryNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19391:09:49The Winter War exposed purges and overambitionChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class25:00Raeder's personal stake in the name Admiral HipperNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...15:20Why Beatty wanted HMS Tiger before her trials were completeQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:03:18How Robert English might have shaped the postwar submarine serviceQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:05:41Ralph Edwards from Bismarck operations to Third Sea LordQ&A
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)25:22HMS Apollo moves from reserve to wartime minelayingNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)31:14Melampus combines royal command training with naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)1:17:02Apollo service trains captains for independent commandChapter
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:26:51Rickover's institutional legacy may have outlasted Fisher's reformsQ&A
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control19:21What if Von Spee had returned to Germany?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control37:19Doveton Sturdee and leadership in WhitehallNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control43:19Cradock's cross-faction credibilityNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control57:30Why did Cradock engage at Coronel?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control1:29:39Cradock's impossible command choiceNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:06:15Royal Navy air-group command was a short career stepQ&A
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?30:13Edward Codrington's career before NavarinoChapter
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:29:37Why deterrence depended on an admiral's reputationChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video37:30Why senior command needs more than combat specializationQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video40:55Why navies also need Whitehall warriorsQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:12:04When a navy shares responsibility for political failureQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:22:08Adam Duncan's personal method of suppressing mutinyQ&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)1:06:22Codrington's Trafalgar record explains his aggressive confidenceNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino (1827)1:19:50Did Codrington think he was another Nelson?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)1:22:50Codrington or Van Heyden - which admiral was the better choice?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:05:23Byng's execution and Royal Navy aggressionChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:44:00Why cruiser officers had to be the sensible onesQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:45:20Somerville watches the Bismarck chase unfoldChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:55:24St Vincent's strategic strength and administrative failureChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:06:21How commanders give orders to serving royalsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:11:00A blunt assessment of Mountbatten as First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:37:02War films make elite weapons and brutal discipline too commonQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 348:50Cochrane as St Vincent's persistent naval opponentQ&A
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers1:22:58How should a navy prepare people for major war?Notable Point
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..17:49Cruiser command became a route to Swedish high commandNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading5:49Destroyer captains moving to larger commandsQ&A
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation12:21Interchangeability meant emergency competence, not identical careersNotable Point
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation13:57Technical literacy as a command responsibilityNotable Point
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches38:39Technical literacy without universal specializationNotable Point
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches50:34Fisher treated junior-officer access as professional educationNotable Point
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:58:20Does the reform show Fisher was a good admiral?Q&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches2:01:13Was Beatty personally well liked?Q&A
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194221:40Choose one naval change for January 1937Notable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194210:11Global commands outnumbered trusted British admiralsChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War50:34Dewey defends Montojo after Manila BayNotable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:13:29Cervera's formation and sacrificial breakout planChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:16:43Infanta Maria Teresa's sacrificial attack at SantiagoChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:08:30Cervera protects the Merrimac demolition crewNotable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:17:39Cervera's fatal rhetoric and the decision to save crewsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193925:27Italy's small-submarine option and command barrierNotable Point
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)22:54Naval chiefs faced a revived Jeune EcoleChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:08:57How command culture sharpened Iron Duke's gunneryNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:04:24Gorshkov frigates and the cost of eliminating fleet slackChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)35:16Reginald Drax from Blanche to convoy commodoreNotable Point
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))2:59Royal Navy promotion was never automaticChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))19:29Retirement kept flag-rank promotion movingNotable Point
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))22:28George Collins had reached the end of a hard command sequenceChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))25:43Hector Boyes first proved himself in East AfricaChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))28:42An honours post could preserve a command reserveNotable Point
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))44:42D-Day destroyer selection explains wartime officer choiceNotable Point
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))48:38Retirement was not a verdict of incompetenceChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))50:19Norway exposed the political side of command selectionChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))52:49Henry Harwood's promotion exposed a political-skills gapChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))54:57Cunningham carried the cost of a thinning command poolChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))56:55Senior leaders are a consumable wartime reserveChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))1:00:14Concentrated command staffs trade economy for resilienceNotable Point
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))1:04:49How can a smaller navy preserve command experience?Notable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)8:48Why the Royal Navy promotion pyramid narrowsChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)10:32Leadership, management, and command are different skillsNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:38:23Family connections could shape postings, not competenceNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:13:18Retirement kept wartime promotion movingNotable Point
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)28:07McKean and Robertson give cruiser doctrine its frameworkNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)50:33Harwich Force and training for aggressive commandChapter
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:14:58Roman consuls unite political authority and battlefield commandChapter
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:18:10Emergency authority and continuity in Roman commandNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:29:46Lucius Manlius Vulso brought repeated command experienceNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:33:10Hamilcar of Drepana entered Ecnomus with mixed resultsNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)1:34:59Hanno's priorities expose Carthage's divided war strategyNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:26:22Q&A: How important was Agrippa at Actium?Q&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...22:11The 1944 Royal Navy view of leadershipChapter
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...34:25How ratings can surface poor leadershipQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...42:31Lord Cork as a failed wartime naval leaderQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...44:00Correct subordinates privately, not publiclyNotable Point
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...59:00A fictional example of situational leadershipNotable Point
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:14:07When leadership exceeds expectations of rankQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:21:18Building ship-level esprit de corps across spaceQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:01:38Andrew Cunningham's leadership in A Sailor's OdysseyChapter
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:09:01Choosing Cunningham, Nelson, or Henderson for different commandsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:23:27Leadership includes building the right leadership teamChapter
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:31:11The officer who can manage both superiors and subordinatesNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events1:51:16Why higher command demands a different way of thinkingNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet51:31Sherbrooke, Casper John, and Eric Brown rising to the occasionQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:37:10What '31-Knot Burke' says about destroyer commandQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:30:22The promotion signal of an unhealthy navyQ&A
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#0:56Who failed in the Pearl Harbor chain of command?Chapter
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#14:25Training detail as a command strength and riskNotable Point
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#17:48War College preparation and battleship commandChapter
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#21:08From cruiser command to the Pacific FleetChapter
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#25:04Why Nimitz declined the Pacific command before KimmelNotable Point
- 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#59:39A constrained commander, not a simple scapegoatChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)22:42Kimmel's reputation before Pearl HarborChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:15:53Was Kimmel forced to micromanage?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:44:09Kimmel explicitly planned against surprise attackNotable Point
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)19:57Japanese admirals understood the odds against themNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)29:18Destroyer flotillas as a leadership schoolNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)32:24Training officers to outgrow their last commandNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)10:11Troubridge, Arbuthnot, and command supervisionQ&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?19:13Did Japan have an admiral like Beresford?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?21:45Fushimi, Yonai, and the factions behind Japanese doctrineChapter
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?26:43Were IJN leaders trained in Japan or overseas?Q&A
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol36:38Ushakov and Russian naval effectivenessChapter
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today58:38The Order of Ushakov as a signal of naval leadershipNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today1:35:36How navies persuaded reluctant admirals to returnQ&A
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today1:45:53Why competent captains could become poor admiralsQ&A
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today1:48:46Why admirals rarely chose to return to captainQ&A
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today2:00:18Ushakov's coalition leadership: logistics, fairness, and respectNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)10:37Dorsetshire and leadership during the Invergordon mutinyNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)42:56Commanders could stretch a battleship's performanceNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney1:29:19Renown's collision with Hood tested command accountabilityNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:17:05Rodney's commanders, machinery, and availabilityChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:41:25Q&A: when a naval officer's career path becomes visibleQ&A
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)0:38Patronage and professional merit in Beresford's careerChapter
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)45:58Fleet command: display, discipline, and initiativeNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:28:04Did illness transform Beresford's character?Notable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:46:22Parliamentary pressure and naval leadership instabilityChapter
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:43:55A five-year model for the First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:30:18Why Invergordon remained the Royal Navy’s last major mutinyQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu1:15:10Lourenço de Almeida had years of command experienceNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu1:57:00Why did the fleet support Almeida's revenge?Q&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:05:28Gunnery and boarding broke the coalition centerChapter
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)30:54Why commanding a County cruiser could lead toward flag rankNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:28:22Royal Navy admirals still lacking ship names in 2022Q&A
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol12:12Nicholas II's enthusiasm without effective naval leadershipNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:03:03Command decisions can give a cruiser a bad nameNotable 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
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)27:51The officers who carried night doctrine forwardNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII49:24Roger Keyes sold night fighting as proof of naval proficiencyNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:44:28Calculated risk was part of destroyer training cultureNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:48:50The Geddes Axe also shaped who commanded interwar destroyersNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:18:21How a proper task group could save GloriousNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:25:23Rodney versus Iowa in a stormy AtlanticQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)28:20Q&A: can theorists lack command experience?Q&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)1:45:52Q&A: how practitioners can use civilian strategistsQ&A
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol24:29Tanaka questions the risk to his destroyersNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol27:37Wright's command temperament and the Port Chicago comparisonNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol29:20Admiral Duncan combines authority with advocacy before CamperdownNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol32:58Wright's rule-bound style meets a fluid night battleNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:08:24Roslyn Wemyss and rebuilding British strategyQ&A
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol6:11A patrol letter joins gunnery practice and family dutyNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol8:33Hearing Rawalpindi's loss and debating a captain's dutyNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary17:26Cunningham's confidence before TarantoQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:08:38Carrier command after Admiral ListerQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:44:59Bonhomme Richard and the cost of hesitant commandNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol49:40Nelson's strengths and amphibious limitationsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:14:34Ships of the line and leading from the frontNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:26:02Leadership, risk, and the humanitarian aftermathNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion47:20Nelson's death and Trafalgar's cultural legacyNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol15:07Technical excellence and approachable commandNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol27:38The Bellerophon command: hard standards and rewardChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:04:15Why senior naval officers needed social and political skillNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)21:52Charles Knowles and sailor welfareNotable Point
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)24:44Andrés Reggio's Mediterranean experience before HavanaNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:35:18Tsushima and the human cost of fighting only for the flagQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:28:40Robert Blake: soldier, fleet leader, and reformerChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:54:26Command requires confidence, but defeat recasts it as arroganceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)40:04Philip Vian's rapid rise during World War IIQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)46:03Early U.S. destroyer performance was also a command problemQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:33:54Chatfield, Henderson, and interwar carrier policyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)1:49:29Jackie Fisher: vision and late-career overreachQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/49:10Yonai's reputation and prewar policy recordChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/410:21Yonai from European neutrality to Japan's surrenderChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/412:02Yonai's warning against a wider warNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/413:12Yonai as a naval leader willing to resist pressureChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/419:00Why study naval chiefs of staff?Chapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/416:51Dönitz as a political naval leaderNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/418:47Dönitz, central control, and costly persistenceNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/426:31Shimada, political compliance, and the Tokyo trialQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/429:07Oikawa's view of Japan's strategic predicamentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/431:55Percy Walker Nelles and Canada's wartime navyQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/413:39Canaris, intelligence loyalty, and the Nazi stateQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/421:10Raeder’s political limits and unbuildable plansQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:30:56Why naval histories foreground commandersQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:57:26Why a guiding naval philosophy mattered to fleet designNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?3:04:13Leadership continuity despite Japanese political violenceQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli2:26Burzagli's place in the interwar Regia MarinaChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli6:28Resignation over fleet cuts and opposition to Fascist alignmentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli8:24Professional leadership versus political admiralsNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli10:44Source gaps and the careers of Ducci and ActonNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli25:00Mussolini's navy ministry and admiral oppositionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli30:37Teaching as a source of fleet cultureNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda0:18Why Ernesto Burzagli joined the Axis chiefs seriesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda4:08A long naval career and opposition to warChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda16:32Ralph Ofstie's postwar assessment of ToyodaNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence11:44Ernesto Burzagli as a model for Italian naval officersNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:13:50Recovering the Italian Navy's wartime reputationChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:52:58Chiefs of staff and the hidden war of fleet allocationChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:04:11Japanese treaty factions as competing deterrence strategiesQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:52:30Dönitz's control makes ignorance of U-boat forced labor implausibleQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa3:40Court access and rapid promotionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa7:47Why Toyoda replaced Oikawa in May 1945Notable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa8:59The case for appointing Oikawa earlierNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa11:23A capable choice from a depleted leadership poolNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten5:54Competence and political leadership in the Regia MarinaNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?4:26Canaris, German patriotism, and moral limitsNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?38:37The film-studio scandal that helped Raeder riseQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?41:12How Japan's naval chief could bring down a governmentQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?47:20Raeder turned naval honour into personal coercionNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?59:36Fushimi and Japan's naval treaty struggleChapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:13:56Were German and Japanese naval chiefs surprised by war?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:14:24Why Prince Fushimi could be retired but not controlledQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:22:01Cavagnari answered directly to MussoliniNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:24:55Did imperial princes make Japanese command less meritocratic?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?1:45:55Riccardi replaced Cavagnari without transforming the fleetNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:55:04Italy's weak naval chiefs did not make every admiral weakNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:24:25Dönitz inherits a failing naval commandChapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:48:45Dönitz kept sending U-boats out in 1945Notable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:57:09Shimada helped Tojo concentrate army and navy commandNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:02:01Raeder or Dönitz as naval chief?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:08:03Raeder shaped the Kriegsmarine by removing rival talentQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:24:53The final verdict: flotilla leader, not admiralQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:30:41Did Dönitz devise a sound strategy but fail to execute it?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz0:02Dönitz's unusual place in the Nazi collapseChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz9:31Raeder, Canaris, and a service chief's dutyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz22:10A U-boat advocate at the top of the navyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz40:29Torpedo-fuze repair versus strategic commandNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz47:41Dönitz's legacy: U-boat advocate, not broad naval strategistChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano0:18Nagano's career and wartime fall from favourChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano16:42Nagano's performance under cultural constraintsChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano18:30Japan's material limits and staff coordinationChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano20:15How to compare Axis naval chiefs of staffNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi0:37Riccardi enters after a chief judged unfit for commandNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi1:37Riccardi's unusually broad wartime authorityChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi3:46A career shaped by staff and ministry postsNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi8:40A harsh verdict qualified by difficult sourcesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi16:52Capable admirals could not overcome a poor strategic handNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:04Strategy as a naval command responsibilityQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:12:29If Ernest King and Martin Luther King Jr. changed rolesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari0:02Italian naval ranks and Cavagnari's postChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari3:39A slow rise through the Regia MarinaChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari7:34An unexpected choice for Chief of StaffNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari10:43Short preparation time and a favourable starting positionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari24:36Italian command turnover and the aviation counterfactualNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari28:47Why Axis naval chiefs need comparisonNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu8:48Chief of the Naval General StaffNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu13:32Appointments, merit, and personal loyaltyNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder1:55Raeder's rise to command of the German NavyChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder4:07The political admiral chosen after a secret rearmament scandalNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder17:09A decade to prepare the KriegsmarineChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder19:39Personal discipline, lasting enemies, and Wilhelm CanarisNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder21:49How long tenure made Raeder accountable for the fleetNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:56Regional backgrounds among British admiralsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)27:18How news of recent battles circulated through a navyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:55:27The three skill sets demanded of senior naval leadersNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral15:08Why small commands develop future admiralsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral18:37Testing future fleet and staff leaders before wartimeNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)5:02Researching shipbuilding trends and overlooked naval leadersNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 7, M15 Class39:48Bacon's technical strengths and the Dover Barrage blind spotNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:09:08The rare naval skill was turning insight into funded capabilityNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:59:19Class barriers shaped Imperial Japanese Navy careersQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:54:54Churchill's Baltic fortress proposal as a leadership testQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)37:52Wartime leaders aboard TitanicQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)58:04Ching Lee in the postwar US NavyQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194116:54Phillips, Somerville, and Far East Fleet commandNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy3:34Camperdown, blockade pressure, and Duncan's attackChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy5:46Duncan's reputation for personal combatNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy7:57Camperdown honours map ships to their captainsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy8:22Flagship authority between captain and admiralNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy15:34Calder's Cape Finisterre action and Admiralty judgmentNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy17:08Calder, moving expectations, and battle luckNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy19:47Why a good captain may not become a great admiralNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident2:47Why strategic commanders must also be politiciansNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident4:23Senior-officer scarcity and overworkNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident11:18Command choice and bad execution in NorwayNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident19:44Altmark succeeded, but the Norway follow-up failedChapter
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol3:33Calder's honor and the fleet's needChapter
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol6:16A competent captain under Saint VincentChapter
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol11:37Family connections and naval advancementNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol19:08Jervis, Cape St Vincent, and independent commandNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol20:50Prize money, dispatches, and Calder's public honorNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol23:08Admiral rank and reliable officersNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol26:46Wartime expansion of the admirals listNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol46:17Nelson's offer and Calder's Trafalgar absenceNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol52:49Unused frigates undermine Calder's defenseNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol56:08Finisterre and the 1805 victory standardNotable Point
- Admiral Robert Calder: Long Patrol58:06Court verdict and Plymouth shore commandNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p3/4 - Tanks3:58Many inventors, one senior backerNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:04:34Postwar Royal Navy decline was also about choices and leadershipNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:12:15Halsey ranks above Beatty for admitting mistakesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:14:13Somerville's missed opportunity during Operation CQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:27:32The ships Vian, Jellicoe, Nelson, and Cunningham valued mostQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:33:45Vian told subordinates the plan before he told superiorsNotable Point
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol30:19Seydi Ali Pasha and the limits of English-language sourcesChapter
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol33:34Dmitry Senyavin's long career and contested reputationNotable Point
- The Battle of Athos 1807: A Long Patrol37:10Alexey Greig's Scottish education and Russian naval careerNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books10:35An observer could command a Buccaneer squadronNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:09:46Beatty and Fleet Air Arm controlQ&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:24Communication, audience, and the Victoria collisionChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)5:55Constructive challenge in a rigid command cultureNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)25:29Experienced officers at the center of the collisionChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:06:46The collision and the failed attempt to beach VictoriaNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:16:31Court martial and command responsibilityChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:27:32The verdict's conflict between obedience and initiativeNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:30:41Majestic-class survivability and career consequencesNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:34:43Jellicoe, Victoria, and Grand Fleet commandNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:40:31Why Victoria discredited the TA systemNotable Point
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17831:29:23Which admiral gave HMS Rodney her name?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17831:32:11Lángara's career exposes Spanish command incentivesNotable Point
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:13:31Roger Curtis turns victory into a rescue operationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty0:33Beatty biography as a balancing sourceChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty0:58Beatty and postwar control of naval aviationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty11:26Beatty's aggression versus senior commandNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (2): The Life and Letters of David Beatty19:20Communications staff and Beatty's strategic limitNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune4:00Prize money, frigate command, and Quilliam's court martialNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune8:52Edward Riou saves HMS Guardian after an iceberg strikeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune9:41Riou's hard discipline and preventive cleanlinessNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword7:15A professional reading starter set for a Royal Navy officerQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:01:29A measured assessment of Karl DonitzQ&A
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices24:22What gets lost when history becomes bullet pointsNotable Point
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 30:19William Agnew's cruiser-command careerChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 34:05Turning HMS Corfu into an armed merchant cruiserNotable Point
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 37:45From HMS Dido to Excellent and VanguardChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 312:56Aurora and the Arethusa-class cruiser balanceNotable Point
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 325:23Vanguard, postwar global presence, and Agnew's influenceChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 21:48Robert Sherbrooke's route to destroyer commandChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 27:40How Vian rotated Tribal-class commandsNotable Point
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 210:16Destroyer officers in Arethusa-class cruisersNotable Point
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 215:12Sherbrooke's Victoria Cross defence of convoy JW 51BChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 11:01Basil Jones and the Royal Navy's depth of commandChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 121:00Operation Irregular targets Japanese island logisticsChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 130:45Destroyers and Liberators coordinate under air attackChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class30:45Hugh Tweedy's career from Victorian ships to Grand Fleet destroyersChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class36:17A young Tweedy improvises a river operation in Sierra LeoneNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class39:22Personnel quality turns flawed ships into usable capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:18:47Why HMS Glorious was caught without warningQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War11:48Why Lord Cork is blamed for the loss of HMS GloriousNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War16:09Geoffrey Bennett's lessons from Second World War naval battlesChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:29:08Beresford, Fisher, and Royal Navy patronageQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:37:58King and Cunningham's grudging wartime respectNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:44:57Cunningham or Nimitz as the best admiral of the warQ&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces12:19Basil Jones and the wartime destroyer command trackChapter
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces49:23Why JW 51B was defended differently from PQ 17Q&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:08:11Why sea-going officers leave as command posts shrinkNotable Point
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:16:28Philip Vian's path from destroyers to the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:18:40The selective command course for surface-warfare officersNotable Point
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:36:29How the British leadership reacted to Vian's Altmark raidQ&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:05:24Frederick Peters returns to war for special serviceChapter
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:27:41Peters volunteers when asked to nominate ships for dangerNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!29:34A capable French navy faced Britain's institutional memoryChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!31:41De Grasse and Bougainville brought different kinds of experienceNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!36:51Rodney, Hood, and Drake formed an unusually experienced command teamChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:03:46A fleet designed to survive command lossesNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:42:50France blamed De Grasse and lost his experienceNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:53:36Why Hood was preferable to BeattyNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy1:31:24HMS Whelp gave Philip a new destroyer to commissionChapter
- Prince Philips Navy2:12:30Chequers gave Philip flotilla-level executive responsibilityChapter
- Prince Philips Navy2:31:42Assessing Philip as an officer whose career yielded to royal dutyNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:03HMS Gipsy's failed air-defense engagementNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:30Decentralized command before HMS Gipsy's miningNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:42:47Zhenyuan's grounding and command collapseChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:37:19Why China could not mobilize its massChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:44:10Beiyang leadership and training declineQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland24:21Why HMCS Uganda's crew voted against continued Pacific serviceNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland32:24The Uganda name debate and the leadership explanationNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland45:32Was Rear Admiral King or the promotion system at fault?Q&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-137:24Family loss and command friction shape Bacon's wartime politicsNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 19166:52Arabis covers the minesweepers' withdrawalChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:03:03Why destroyer officers gained command experience earlyQ&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:14:03Sweden and Norway's naval balance in 1905Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:27:35Hyde Parker and Beatty judged similar results differentlyNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:09:27Beatty made Seymour a signaling scapegoatNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:21:21De Brock became a check on BeattyNotable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today27:26How Caribbean warfare prepared Cochrane for 1812Notable Point
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today35:21Cochrane and Beckwith's aggressive command teamNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 41:32How admirals turn presence into authorityNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 33:48Frederic Dreyer brought operational authority to the China StationNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 121:20Postwar commanders reassess the Far East from SingaporeChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 131:38Bias Bay turned jurisdiction into a counter-piracy obstacleChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 134:52Deployment quality shaped perceptions of the whole fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword1:54:27Charles Lamb's relationship with Implacable's flight-deck partyNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword1:59:13Batmen, naval stewards, and carrier batsmenQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:02:55Why a busy captain needs help with food and sleepQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:07:23Who else watches the captain's welfare?Q&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:10:41Who checks on the chief engineer's welfare?Q&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:11:40Pairing a captain and executive officer with complementary skillsQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:18:58Stewards give captains an informal view of shipboard lifeNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:26:19Steward support preserves space between the captain and the wardroomNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:29:35Dudley North's lost command opportunityQ&A
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:30:12Cork and Orrery's investigations cost the Royal Navy usable officersNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:32:30Steward support frees a highly trained captain for command workNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:38:23Admirals who preferred sea command still accepted shore dutiesQ&A
- Greenwich Naval College: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Part 216:01Officers must think above their current rankNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:06:18Did wartime exhaustion weaken the postwar officer corps?Q&A
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 110:15Admiral Duncan's personal response to mutinyNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations3:08:18John Fisher on full-scale trials and public argumentNotable Point
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:30Michael Clapp as a favorite Royal Navy captainQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes32:24How different Grand Fleet leadership might have changed the G3Q&A
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered3:50What a modern Theodore Roosevelt would needQ&A
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered6:20Reading Roosevelt's naval legacy selectivelyNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered17:10Robust debate improves naval choicesNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...0:32Historical study as preparation for strategic leadershipNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...22:11The Roosevelt family's long connection to Navy leadershipNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream31:56Roosevelt follows the fleet aboard MayflowerNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream32:55Selecting experienced leaders for a high-stakes voyageChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:10:56Why submarine services favored younger aggressive commandersNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:39:23Why Sisko should not command both ship and fleetChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)48:40Abraham Duquesne's long route to French fleet commandChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:02:38Michiel de Ruyter builds command experience from the bottom upChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:01:49Did Duquesne perform better than de Ruyter's British opponents?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:02:13Did aristocratic rank determine command competence?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:20:45Who was better, de Ruyter or Tromp?Q&A
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:25:57Who would win a clean de Ruyter-Duquesne contest?Q&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books3:14:47Mountbatten as an example of patronage and rapid promotionQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?20:27Mountbatten's strengths did not make him a complete commanderQ&A
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"2:11:41Battle-tested admirals would shape the 1946 counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books12:30The Black Fleet Trilogy and cruiser dutiesChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:40:53Launching a final salvo after loss becomes inevitableNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:02:17Why Andromeda needed more of her original crewNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:06:13How can Ensign Tilly serve as executive officer?Notable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:08:02Captain loyalty and abandon-ship ordersNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:22:34Saru, Burnham and plausible deniabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:26:34No Honor in Death and command of a crippled battleshipChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:33:44Victoria Regina's final maneuver against the cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:37:45Surviving Victoria Regina and reliving the battleNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"30:11Caspar John makes the case for naval aviationChapter
- Battle of Quiberon Bay4:16Who commands a frigate or destroyer?Q&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay32:31Edward Hawke's command experienceNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay40:50Did Hawke still seek command at sea?Q&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay42:19James Young and the careers beneath famous admiralsNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay43:47French commanders and divided authorityNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay45:55Hawke's political backing and naval effectivenessQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay52:03Admiral Howe versus General HoweQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:09:59Hawke set the chase and his captains fought itNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:50:16Sea training, patronage, and naval commandNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:39:03Charles Wilkes without the Trent AffairQ&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:41:54William Sidney Smith as a comparison for WilkesQ&A
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark17:23Pound's close-passing drill risks Warspite and ArethusaNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark18:28Why a night torpedo raid seemed too costlyQ&A
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark20:15Caspar John tests procurement against night-flying needsNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark56:18Cunningham accepts the risk after Ark Royal attacks DunkerqueNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark2:03:16The command careers that followed TarantoNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard19:57Fisher's experience before the reform programmeChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard28:33How dancing became part of Fisher's naval politicsNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard29:29Was Fisher promoted beyond his capability?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard30:09Fisher and Beresford represented different command strengthsNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard42:35Did Fisher understand the technology he promoted?Q&A
- HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/45:01Philip Vian learns command under Lionel WellsNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers45:57Assessing Admiral Tom PhillipsQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers53:20Could Tom Phillips have become a good task-group commander?Q&A
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson18:18Nelson as a thinking officer, not a reflexive maverickChapter
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson21:21Why peacetime constabulary work might have frustrated NelsonNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson24:39Why one naval hero is not enoughNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson29:28The cost of a zero-error command cultureChapter
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson31:44Failure, retained trust, and decisive actionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy39:03A top-heavy command structure in the Allied fleetChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:02:34Why the Allied fleet became so closely managedQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:03:20Trafalgar's capable opponentsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:50:11Nelson's failures as part of his command recordChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:56:40Why command culture must allow decisionsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:59:02Did Nelson ever refuse battle?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:07:43How the Victorian Navy made Trafalgar a touchstoneChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:15:06Flexible command includes knowing when to obeyQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:19:48Let Nelson be a complicated historical figureNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A22:37Which admirals make useful career models?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:06:39What makes a military leader a maverick?Chapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:32:53Were Pacific admirals mavericks?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:58:55Andrew Lambert's Admirals as naval-leadership readingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:58:55Geoffrey Hornby: detail, discipline, and restraintChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:16Why wartime command punishes indecisionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:23:07Replacing Fisher, Jellicoe, and Churchill in a 1908 counterfactualQ&A
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers3:29Dudley Pound’s health and the burden of wartime commandNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul42:01Dunkirk turned Ramsay into a coastal-forces advocateNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style36:25Philip Vian and the First Battle of SirteNotable Point
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers0:41Why carrier command culture still encouraged aggressionNotable Point
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/332:31Improvised leadership after the scatter orderNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...8:53What the Regia Marina bringsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 413:06Keeping naval leaders alive changes the forceNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:04Reading Chatfield’s Navy and Defence criticallyNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 217:31Malta flotilla commanders and shore staffNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians15:24Wang Jinghong's forgotten expedition commandNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians29:15Zumwalt's DesRon 26 experimentNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians36:13Wu Shengli and the modern Chinese NavyChapter
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians40:39Disappearing sources and recent Russian naval historyNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A29:25Arleigh Burke learning the carrier task-force systemNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A46:50Ranking the admirals of the Anglo-Dutch WarsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:19:09Robert Blake and the wider work of an admiralQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:42:14Why Churchill and Fisher amplified each other's weaknessesNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:30Institutional memory is a naval capabilityChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You38:36Tsingtao turns local knowledge into crisis controlNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:25:29Force Z and command fit in the Malaya disasterNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:07:57Reginald Henderson's likely path to Far East commandQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?3:38Why Reginald Tyrwhitt fits the schemeNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:22:42Why Beatty was a poor fit for small shipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:32:18How destroyer experience reached flag rankQ&A
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville27:53Consensus command versus small-ship ruthlessnessNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 1 of 338:49Midshipman Ashworth and controlled escalation at TsingtaoNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 48:52Small ships carried convoys and gave reservists commandNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war32:27Leadership balance aboard small attack craftNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:19:51Michael Clapp holds fire under pressureNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:45:17How small crews altered attack-boat performanceNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 312:15Roger Keyes: fertile ideas and uneven executionChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 314:19Max Horton and Western Approaches CommandChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 24:28Geoffrey Hornby and the craft of peacetime commandChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 26:00Harold Burrough as a quiet wartime professionalNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 220:18Henderson's high standards could become a leadership liabilityNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 14:06David Beatty: charisma, politics, and command limitsChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 16:28John Jellicoe's global command vision and officer legacyChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 19:34James Somerville's aggression and Indian Ocean judgmentChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 114:22John Tovey's Bismarck command and defense of subordinatesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:50:13Submarine quality control and command culture in the IJNQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy50:21When exercises rewarded dangerous aggressionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A11:30What the Admiralty meant by 'Winston is back'Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie25:48Lyster's carrier expertise and Admiralty responsibilitiesNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie29:27How command strain shaped Somerville's choicesNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie47:40Why Operation C became a test of attack cultureNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:31:54How wartime promotion reshaped carrier commandNotable Point
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full13:35Philip Vian's aggressive destroyer leadershipChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full18:34How Vian helped a sailor reach his wife during childbirthNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video46:44Philip Vian and the culture of naval initiativeNotable Point
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video51:03Reading intent from ships rather than written ordersNotable Point
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video31:19Greenway's judgment under delegated commandChapter
- SS Africa Shell & Switch Back - A River Plate 80 Video2:57Langsdorff's restrained approach to commerce raidingChapter
- 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 video8:22Captain Bell and the Royal Navy's aggressive ethosChapter
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video15:41Why independent stations attracted capable officersNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video22:41Parry turns enemy corrections into an evasive advantageNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video25:56Harwood's command team offsets Graf Spee's material edgeChapter