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- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?29:05The fishing-boat crisis and Russia's long supply routeNotable Point
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?1:12:15Sea mobility in a wider colonial warNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!9:29Pacific distances make missile magazine depth a design problemNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!2:01:23VLS capacity links mission breadth to time on stationNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII33:15A surviving escort and the loss of small-ship heritageNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII34:01How escort shortages could deepen Japan's fuel shortageQ&A
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII59:05No. 1's loss and the air-cover requirement of small escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:16Building a balanced Earth fleet after Stargate SG-1Q&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:15Defending Stargate's Midway linkNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:06Forces for an Imperial colony in the Outer RimQ&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:29Where do human sailors fit in Azur Lane?Q&A
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?33:18Why crew size limits a destroyer's deploymentNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?35:22Battenberg's strategy and political vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?1:18:22Warship endurance starts with ordinary equipmentNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?1:19:02Royal Fleet Auxiliary pay and support-ship availabilityNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?1:34:24Overseas bases need docks, stores, and training facilitiesChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one26:24New guns consumed industrial capacity and logistical effortNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:10:22Japanese flying boats and the payload needed for naval logisticsQ&A
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- What happens if Emperor Napoleon III of France backs Emperor Maximilian of Mexico to the Maximum?1:09:54Mexican bases for von Spee, Goeben and BreslauNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:41Human sailors in Azur Lane's combat environmentQ&A
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?29:40Long-range raiders and Atlantic replenishmentChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?46:56Diesel destroyer endurance and the Narvik problemChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?59:33A simulated Atlantic raid supported by disguised oilersNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...0:00Diesel stocks and long-term logistical planningNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:06:28Range, combat radius and fuel for fightingNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live28:01Why interwar armoured carriers made senseQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live46:05Age of Sail artillery standardization and logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:41:28Why the German Navy bought the Rostock shipyardQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:58:23Why prolonged operations change port-visit plansQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:38:17A new Italian destroyer's Mediterranean roleQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:41:49Missile integration and allied ammunition stocksNotable Point
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- William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!39:38A provisioning landing ends in the loss of the officersChapter
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- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...5:01Why missile reloading presents different problems from refuellingNotable Point
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...6:53Tsushima and the cost of taking a fleet across the worldNotable Point
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...8:40Small hulls and the ships needed to sustain a rearming circuitNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:16A useful destroyer range for Pacific operationsQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:39Extra tanks and the scale of warship fuel needsQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:07:19Fast sealift and ships held readyQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:37:03The military use that suits a large ocean linerNotable Point
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- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...4:23French infrastructure and Mediterranean operationsChapter
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...41:57Moving ships, supplies and unfinished hullsChapter
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...27:31Why the 3-inch gun suited air defence in 1916Chapter
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- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:03:49Warship missile capacity and the support behind land launchersNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:09:45Attacking launchers to protect the fleet's missile stocksNotable Point
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- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?1:06:22Damage can end a surface raider's freedomNotable Point
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- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:20:47Integrating foreign ships in a surviving British EmpireQ&A
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- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:43:25Why a surface submarine tender does not need AIPQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:44:19The cost of making the tender a submarineQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:52:06The Osprey replacement creates a COD capacity problemQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:54:47Greyhound range and the Osprey's additional missionsQ&A
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- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)31:29Japan gains time, but retains its strategic tradeoffsChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:30:12Dominion naval growth depends on crews and infrastructureChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:04:01Could Italy rebuild its oil stocks before war?Q&A
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- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:08:52German naval fuel estimates remain too tightQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:15:04Merchant shipping without a Liberty-ship emergencyQ&A
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- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:31:29Why Libyan oil cannot transform Italy by 1942Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:38:44Synthetic oil helps Japan without solving its strategic problemQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:51:54A Pearl Harbor oil strike buys time without winning the warQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:52:49Unicorn is a forward aviation support shipQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)5:02:52Why the Indian Ocean raid may never occurQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:55Germany's naval role in NATO logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:04Building the fictional Type 46 export fleetQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:16Why the CCV may outgrow a 6,000 ton Type 31 hullQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:01Common designs and Suez logistics in a fictional British EmpireQ&A
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America18:38Why Allied submarines cannot multiply in three monthsNotable Point
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future1:12Using the US-2 to support uncrewed fleetsNotable Point
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future19:11A proposed British fleet of P-8s and US-2sNotable Point
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future35:29Balikatan casualty evacuation and Spratly resupplyNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live31:52Russia's four-fleet logistics problemQ&A
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- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:56Soviet supply alternatives if Japan closed the Pacific routeNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:31:02Why uncrewed systems may not shrink ship crewsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:51:15Civilian vessels in riverine military rolesQ&A
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?13:47Bases, submarines, and the French supply problemChapter
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?29:20Holding the empire and rebuilding supply chainsNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?38:56Malta convoys and the Mediterranean supply corridorChapter
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?42:30Extra hulls create maintenance time as well as firepowerNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?45:25Giulio Cesare and the limits of a larger Taranto raidNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:09:17One status ship versus a supporting task forceNotable Point
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- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:12Caribbean naval materials came through Atlantic tradeQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:51Fast minelayers would face a predictable Tobruk routeQ&A
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership31:21Indian Ocean raiding and the need for a European refitChapter
- Raphael Semmes: A Legacy of Literary Leadership36:33Sumter's equipment delays and the threat of blockadeNotable Point
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- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia38:55Luleå-class frigates and Baltic sea controlChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...30:57Destroyers could support coastal convoys and regional operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 229:08Why a held Singapore could remain suppliedNotable Point
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- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)24:12A fleet sustains an organization; a task force sustains a missionQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:30:03U.S. task-force doctrine planned for rapid expansionChapter
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:31Why Elizabeth I kept her fleet together after the ArmadaQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:09Why pirates avoided ships of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:45Polish submarines operating from an Allied SwedenNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:23:00Fleet readiness, reserves, and dependence on the seaQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:13A 1960s Japanese fleet trying to invade Australia in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:50:12What would Tomahawk add without widening the Falklands War?Q&A
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...3:37Why wartime food grievances were not mutiniesChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...28:38Food, morale, and extended deploymentsNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:27Ice-cream recipes and shipboard food equalityQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:42Ammunition scale from a Matilda tank to a battleshipNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:13:23Would navies convert to oil by 1920?Q&A
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- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:27:22Capital-ship transfers as imperial infrastructure policyNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:14Large naval drones still need scarce dry docksQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:05The naval logistics behind Wellington's Peninsular campaignsNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:47Royal Fleet Auxiliary integration and LUSV supportQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:27Why European OPV requirements diverge by geographyQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today7:03Why destroyers grew into seagoing generalistsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:08:32Naval control does not solve merchant war-risk insuranceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:24:31Uncrewed escorts are not cheap expendable missile boxesNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered15:30The six-year gap ends with five Smith-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:52A Civil War-era US Navy in the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:25Why sister ships can finish a war in different mechanical conditionQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:55Common fuel for diesel engines and gas turbinesQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:30The missing infrastructure behind an uncrewed fleetQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:20Sustaining a Flower-class corvette before TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:09How Germany used occupied foreign shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:23North Sea oil available before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:30Distributed dependencies, just-in-time logistics, and lost redundancyQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:28The risks of assuming perfect weapons performance and wars of choiceNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:42Ice cream, rum, and naval barter in the wartime PacificQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:01Why a warship cannot easily manufacture its own weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:23Supplying oil for Yamato-class ships at JutlandNotable Point
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- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:32Interwar shipyard closures removed rearmament capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:12Drone missile vessels need protected rearming routesNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:07Uncrewed missile craft do not remove sea-control problemsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:18Science-fiction ideas likely to appear in near-future naviesQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:04Why contractors replaced shipboard workshop capacityQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:05Remote vehicles could extend what a ship's crew can see and handleNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:01Redesigning the Colonial Fleet after the First Cylon WarQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:39Carrier battlestars replace fighter losses and jump clearNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:20Historical experiments with towed naval force multipliersQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?14:13Stored Courageous turrets show Britain's measured rearmament paceNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...22:37World War II infrastructure made Cold War missile research cheaperNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not29:31Satellites and spaceports behind drone warfareNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not37:25Drone numbers need control capacity and replacement stocksNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not41:25Submarine endurance matters during peacetime intelligence patrolsNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not44:32Dry docks and auxiliaries as serious capabilityNotable Point
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- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:11:53A large floating dry dock can take six yearsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:15:03Auxiliaries and humanitarian reliefQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:43:13F-35 maintenance capacity limits carrier readinessNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:55:47From XV Patrick Blackett to optionally crewed support shipsNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:59:13Communications drones create their own protection problemNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:07:22What 48 VLS cells provide under two-missile doctrineNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:22:43Gripen for CAP and F-35B for carrier strikeQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:27:21Why oil rigs make vulnerable observation postsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:27:54Uncrewed VLS barges still need escorts and resupplyNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:39:15The recurring idea of an uncrewed SLBM platformQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not3:01:05A small navy still needs multiple maintenance slotsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:07Munitions stockpiles expose procurement seriousnessQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:02Royal Navy infrastructure supported expansion in the 1840sQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:05Navy tugs need damage control more than grey paintQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:36A common battlecruiser hull could also support fast carriersQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:44Maintainability should shape a warship before equipment is fittedQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:03Dry docks turn fleet numbers into usable shipsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:06Britain should repair existing bases before reopening distant stationsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:58Nuclear shipbuilding needs certified yards and specialist labourQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:07Reactor access should sit beneath spaces already due for renewalQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:36Ten Australian T-class submarines would reshape Pacific confidenceQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:33:47Airships may lose their maritime logistics window to large VTOL aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:02:46Logistics and sea conditions test elegant ideas that work on paperNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?18:40Task groups are built around functions, while battle group is often brandingChapter
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?20:06An amphibious task group combines combat power with its own sustainmentNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:09Coal-fired warships as time-travel choicesQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:00Prince of Wales, routine failure, and missing supportQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:17Why RFA pay competes with an international labor marketNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:20Scarce coal and the ironclad ageQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:06British studies for 18-inch and 22-inch naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:50Relining capacity depends on throughputQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:15Why spare barrels do not remove refit costsQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:31When long guns could fit a support planQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:27Why the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is force structureQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?10:50Global commitments reward six smaller carriers over a few giantsChapter
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?25:03Fuel exclusions give a Hermes successor room for greater enduranceNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:19:56Japan's minimum-force strategy combines fleet strength and distant logisticsNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:22:20Russia's fleet concentration problem survived improved gunneryNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy27:26Taking a river paddle steamer from Bengal toward IraqChapter
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- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?34:40A shared modular network could spread the Absalon support-frigate ideaNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...19:06HMS Unicorn supports British carrier enduranceNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet39:46Missile diversity protects the fleet from supply interruptionNotable Point
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- What if Hawaii became a British Protectorate in 1824?20:52A modest base deters interference and creates its own tradeChapter
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:14How blockade could shape a longer War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:14Resupplying a postwar Scapa Flow baseQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:06How William the Conqueror assembled an invasion fleet quicklyQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:50How an early Big Inch pipeline would reduce coastal tanker dependenceQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:23:40How quickly a large warship can be scrappedQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:34USN fast combat support ships and the last hundred milesQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:48Why escort refueling cannot replace a fleet-oiler programNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...1:05:11Embarked air groups test carrier support capacityNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:39:07Why favour Sea King AEW if Dynavert could carry Searchwater?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:16:35Why is the Dynavert a poor ASW aircraft?Q&A
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI22:03Spahi and Voltigeur show the tradeoffs of larger destroyersChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI23:06The 65 mm gun offers a compromise between two calibresNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI26:42Hull shaping explains range efficiencyNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI40:18Reliable turbines replace mixed destroyer machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:48Which former Royal Navy bases would still matter?Q&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:33Replenishment ships follow commitmentsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:33German ocean supply ships and stern refuellingQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:08Alongside replenishment and the loss of Britain's fast oilersQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:59Missiles ashore and guns offshoreQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:46Why fixing RFA manning would not restore lost capacityQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:37The British Pacific Fleet's forgotten logistics lessonQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:24Matching a hypothetical European navy to regional dutiesNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:18Choosing a practical modern pirate vesselQ&A
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?0:22Historical auxiliary warships depended on weapon stockpilesNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?49:16Rapid up-arming must be proven before warNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...35:32Cable repair and crane ships as recovery infrastructureNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...39:34The Great White Fleet depended on coal logistics it did not ownNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:57:02Protecting auxiliaries in contested watersNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...2:02:15How the plan reaches a total naval force of 450Notable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...2:13:29Fireboats and the protection of naval portsNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:30:01Oiler block buys and predictable shipyard workChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:32:08Strategic sealift, prepositioning, and the risks of used shipsChapter
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:34:35Submarine tenders carry mobile repair and replenishment capacityNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...3:38:58An overseas lead ship for cargo replenishmentNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:04:22Will uncrewed vessels need a dedicated support ship?Q&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:09Why a modern Liberty ship mobilization would be difficultQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:09PLAN convoy logistics from the Persian GulfQ&A
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?9:58Why early Burkes carried 90 VLS cellsNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)23:28Merchant shipping is not spare naval capacityNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)54:57Why emergency defence procurement creates later tradeoffsQ&A
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:06:35What counterfactual naval history can revealQ&A
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:27:24Mahan and Corbett: similar theory, different audiencesNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:23Soviet troop numbers versus amphibious lift for JapanQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:54Was Voyager uniquely suited to the Delta Quadrant?Q&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:12A cheap Stargate corvette for routine missionsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:15The Klingon Bird of Prey as a logistics warningQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:17Why a simple top-five navy ranking misleadsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:13Why sailors received a gallon of beerQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:36Choosing between a Warhammer and Stargate commandQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:43:55Frequent supply convoys in a fictional port scenarioQ&A
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes3:43Rajput class as India's customized Soviet baselineChapter
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes10:21Delhi speed, layered air defence, and task-group rangeNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes14:21Barak missiles as a transition choiceNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes30:11Kolkata range and the Maareech torpedo decoyNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes32:02Project 15B automation and 9,000-nautical-mile reachChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)45:41Missile trucks and replenishment at seaQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:17:18Warship ambition must match support infrastructureChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:28:06A Type 83 mothership would support and rearm uncrewed escortsChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:57:48PLAN VLS replenishment matters more as operations range fartherQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:10:39Putting VLS near a hangar does not guarantee loading accessQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:27:08Very large carriers face diminishing air-wing returnsQ&A
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima23:35Firepower depended on its supporting systemsNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima33:20Larger destroyers still brought limited range and new machineryNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima36:03Machinery variety weakened Russia's deterrent imageNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima45:32Four separated fleets required far more destroyersNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima49:18Naval infrastructure could strengthen Russia's wider economyChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima51:27Baltic destroyers could preserve Swedish supply routesNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima53:25Towing torpedo craft to Tsushima reduced trainingNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:47Royal Navy wartime maintenance cyclesQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:40Crewing and supporting Japan's hypothetical Kii fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:07Why navies seek the cheapest workable fuelNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:14Why ships do not carry Harpoon reloadsQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:04Books on Second World War supply convoysQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:14Modern Canadian ships sent to the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:23British coal logistics as naval powerNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)36:31Russo-Japanese War cooperation without interventionChapter
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart1:40U.S. Navy fast replenishment oilersQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart16:52The Vondetan as a self-contained expeditionary warshipNotable Point
- Bruships9:36Henry Kaiser, Liberty ships, and workforce benefitsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:36Getting U-boats past GibraltarQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:24Repair yards, fitting-out yards, and construction slipwaysQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:38British fireships against invasion harborsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:37Russian victory in the Russo-Japanese WarQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:14:18Rebuilding maritime industry from CornwallQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:17:49Naval logistics in the Cornwall rebuilding scenarioNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:48:11Would British carriers face range problems in the Pacific?Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:51:18Would early-war oiler shortages restrict British carrier substitutes?Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:53:14Carrier fuel reserves and protection in the Coral Sea comparisonQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:54:55Ark Royal operations challenge her published enduranceNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:21:24Goeben and Breslau in the Indian OceanQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)14:41French naval logistics reshape the scenarioChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)26:06Béarn is limited but still usefulNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)40:06French submarine design matters at GibraltarNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)44:30The Redoutable class turns submarine quantity into ocean reachNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)47:00Overseas formations make France a worldwide operating navyChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)55:32French support depended more on bases than abundant oilersQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)56:03France would decide which surviving ships to keepQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)57:41Existing ammunition postpones a wholesale French rearmamentQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)58:39Allied industry could sustain mixed French ammunitionQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:00:25France could buy ships abroad before rebuilding yardsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:01:42Early French AA standardization would favor British weaponsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:12:59Darlan is the hinge for a whole-fleet evacuationChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:21:40Free French North Africa squeezes Italian LibyaChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:28:31French North African airfields shorten the Malta supply problemNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:42:16A self-administering French state saves British resourcesNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:44:44Holding Corsica depends on local allegiance and defenseNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:46:18Defeat in Libya and Taranto threatens MussoliniChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:07:31Richelieu could join the fast fleet in 1941Notable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:22:33Production-security plans help sustain unique French calibersQ&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?31:04HMS Unicorn could extend carrier air-group enduranceNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?45:03A heavier Taranto strike could keep Crete and cut Axis suppliesNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?46:27A smaller Italian battle fleet frees Queen Elizabeth-class shipsNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?49:30Crete's airfields ease carrier demands and support a larger eastern fleetNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?51:05North African airfields reopen a fast convoy route to SuezNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?56:30Preparing to meet a German carrier and battleship groupNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:07:53Exhausting Axis supplies before a North African offensiveNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:21:19Holding Crete could reduce carrier damage and encourage reinforcementNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:17:05Baltic convoys redirect the submarine warNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI9:21Lampo and the cost of chasing speedNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:08A four-track Trans-Siberian Railway in 1895Q&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:39Ceylon as the Royal Navy Far East baseQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:34Modern-sized Panama and Kiel canals before the warQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?3:39Escort losses and the problem of arming auxiliaries for warNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?5:41How StanFlex separates weapons from hull upgradesChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?24:24Stirling Castle's mine-warfare role and light armamentNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?40:59How allied demand could create a module market and common poolNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?49:34One modular small-ship class for patrol, survey, and mine warfareChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?55:48Using an annual module budget as an emergency reserveNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?1:05:34A shared module pool still needs enough weaponsNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?9:15VLS cells are the ship's combat magazineChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?16:05Why containerized VLS does not fit cleanlyNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?18:42Missile rearming needs investment in logisticsChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?19:41Why four hulls give a stronger availability guaranteeNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?21:32Armed merchant ships trade missile density for valuable hullsNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?37:28Cruiser endurance includes food and independent repairNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?1:00:51Reserve fleets preserve hull life and readinessNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?1:04:59Defence slack makes logistics more resilientNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...6:46What Lion traded in range for speed and gunpowerNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...14:47The crew and infrastructure bill for a Dominion LionNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...45:21German protection came with a pursuit problemNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...49:54How Dominion battlecruisers could reduce other overseas deploymentsNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?16:25Missile barges create an escort chainChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?1:04:08An LPD could tend uncrewed missile vesselsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:13:31Extra depth charges and improvised launching arrangementsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:19:58Protecting the convoy's most vulnerable shipsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:30:34Normandy troop convoys and Walker's final wartime dutiesChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:44:09Northwest Passage bases depend on logisticsQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:51:07Walker's true depth-charge load is uncertainQ&A
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds0:31Capabilities still need deployable hullsNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds52:59Kidd's Gulf adaptations and remaining land-attack limitNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:31Ports need fixed and mobile air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:58How many Burkes sustain a Hormuz surface force?Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:20Testing claims that Harold's army sailed south in 1066Notable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:50A blank-check Royal Navy force structureQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:53Logistics ships depend on where a navy intends to fightQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:21Oil shocks and naval energy costsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:38Singapore as a Canadian forward naval baseQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:44:53Fleet support and requirement control in the U.S. Navy discussionQ&A
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?37:49Tripartite geography limits real cooperationNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?58:40Operation Torch as coalition rehearsalChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:06:40How an early Italian exit could end the North African campaignChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII10:19Léopard's British rearmament and uncertain submarine claimChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII12:24Trading Léopard's speed for fuel, depth charges, and radarChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII15:15Tigre's long war with few opportunitiesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII26:37Le Triomphant's Pacific patrols and ten-month Sydney refitChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII27:37Le Triomphant's cruiser label and worldwide repair cycleNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII35:18La Terrible as a useful but late Allied assetNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII42:53A Polish-crewed Bourrasque-class destroyer without sparesChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII1:00:00Could a larger Free French fleet have supported itself?Notable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)5:22Feeding a battleship and containing food disputesNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)43:06Special meals, bad news, and naval moraleNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)49:17Why an unexpected lobster meal caused alarmNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:17:42Deployment records and naval infrastructureQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:56Why the southern Indian Ocean lacked another major naval baseQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:59Could Madagascar have become a French Singapore?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:53Minimum Royal Navy escort and support fleetQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:11Could Britain sustain a third escort-building factory?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:37Can a Fleet Solid Support design become a tanker or amphibious ship?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:34Could continuous RFA orders sustain Harland and Wolff?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:28Dry docks, cannibalization, and Royal Navy readinessQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22:37Impero loses parts and dock time before completionNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:34What turns a regional patrol ship into a global oneQ&A
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?8:57A missile container must survive the loading systemNotable Point
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?24:42Strategic tankers keep bases suppliedNotable Point
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?26:11Old stern-to-bow refuelling still worksChapter
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?29:56HMS Dreadnought and inherited rope allowancesNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:49:08VLS capacity at the destroyer-cruiser boundaryQ&A
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...24:55Mixed-fuel boilers gave the Tatras more flexibilityNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...38:43A replacement class learned from wartime lossesNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:28The F-35 maintenance limits discussed at AkrotiriNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:57Why carrier groups need deep tanker and stores-ship reservesQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:25How retaining Singapore could shift the Pacific campaignQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:47Canada's weight in the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:52The obstacles to an Imperial German conquest of JapanQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:28Six Fort Victoria ships as protected one-stop replenishmentQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:54What nuclear propulsion offers a carrier escortQ&A
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?13:14The 1997 Royal Navy force baselineChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?44:22The force behind the 1998 Joint Rapid Reaction ForceNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:04:14Expanding the 2003 mission area without matching enablersNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:08:23The 2003 case for sea-based logistics and land attackNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:15:21Why HMS Daring needed a first-of-class refitNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:17:12Funding unexpected operations without hollowing out the fleetNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:38:03Extended readiness and real reservesNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:41:08When dependency became part of Future Force 2020Notable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:47:01Future Force 2020 reduced the naval system behind its missionsChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:46:322021 shipbuilding ambitions and industrial capacityChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:03:16Pandemic supply chains and the proposed defence dividendNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:06:39Quantifying Britain's maritime dependenciesChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:21:29The specialized capability of the Royal Fleet AuxiliaryNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:29:28Why wartime logistics cannot assume commercial participationNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)40:54Carrier pairs for distant cruiser stationsChapter
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)54:11Small carriers become mobile aviation infrastructureNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:07:33Overseas bases keep station carriers availableNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:12:18The light-carrier hull could lead to an aviation support shipNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:18:58A carrier becomes the cruiser squadron's aviation workshopNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:32:08How many of twelve light carriers would be available?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:33:12Would cruiser stations also receive seaplane tenders?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:13Planning the Asiatic Fleet's move toward AustraliaQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:54Hong Kong, Weihaiwei, and the geography of British forward basesQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:20The Soviet attraction to nuclear cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:21Missile stockpiles need slack and forward basesQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:24Where just-in-time logistics can work in an emergency serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:54Managing missile stocks before they age outQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:39How spare gun barrels supported a fleet that changed theatresQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:08Adding land-based air defence beside Falklands missile stocksQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:36Why containerized missiles disrupt ship stabilityQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...5:37Peking Plan links naval escape to a Romanian bridgeheadChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...41:25Belgium disperses gold reserves before invasionNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...43:39A Belgian patrol boat carries gold to BritainNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...46:48Greek fleet withdrawal preserves an exile navyChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...53:53Draug prepares for invasion and captures a German supply shipNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:07:38Sleipner survives repeated air attack and withdraws when ammunition runs outChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...43:24Why Russia's Pacific reinforcements faced such poor oddsQ&A
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...53:10How Japan balanced its squadrons at TsushimaNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...55:44Umikaze tests the limits of turbine destroyersNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:07:06Why Japan's early destroyers vanished before the Second World WarNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)45:18Why repeat orders give a navy purchasing powerNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:25:05Why plumbing failures are credible on a Ford-class carrierQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:30:20Copper sheathing as an operational advantageNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:38:14How long copper sheathing lasted and why crews benefitedQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:15:41Could a warship make useful methane from human waste?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:41A Mississippi towboat in Napoleonic FranceQ&A
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:08:53Dedicated escorts free destroyers for fleet dutiesNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:14:43Auxiliaries and adaptable merchant ships support larger fleetsNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor6:40Fragmented engines make early carrier aviation expensiveNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:19:03The B5N reaches Pearl Harbor with known limitationsChapter
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:30:48A common radial engine could simplify carrier-aircraft supportNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:33:34Would common engines improve carrier-aircraft availability?Q&A
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:09:09Carrier sea control drives the Type 052DChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:10:36Carrier magazines ease the burden on fixed VLS loadsNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:12:39Built-in handling could shorten VLS reloading at seaNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:18:04Concentrated escorts turn commonality into readinessNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:22:13Two VLS standards complicate Chinese missile compatibilityNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:36How Japanese orders sustained British detonator productionQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...11:23Moving explosives around London safelyNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:15Why amphibious mobility is more than flying troops to a baseQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:54How a 1920s naval warehouse handled heavy equipmentQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:50Why at-sea VLS reloading needs ship-integrated handling gearQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:47Azur Lane's central port and the risks of concentrating a fleetQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:35What would let a country rebuild steam-age shipping after a solar catastropheQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:12Could Japan feed itself during recovery from a severe solar storm?Q&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:09How enclosed seas shape fleet designQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:05Why precision weapons can leave total ammunition demand highNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More54:06Sims makes World War I sea power visibleChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:00:21Troopship routing versus the commerce warChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:04:42Troopship success undercuts German promisesChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:08:28Naval lift as a great-power capabilityNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:33:06Longer-range merchant ships, oil, and payment in dollarsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)17:03U-boat numbers versus usable dive lifeNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)57:12How submarine bases differ from surface-fleet basesQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:06:14U-234's unfinished cargo mission to JapanNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:09:09Type VII boats reveal the operational backboneNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:23:22Disposal priorities as attention turned eastNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:31:15Why Type XXIII boats threatened Channel supplyNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:34:00Why the Allies did not stage a three-navy disposal contestQ&A
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet12:20Continuous destroyer building links presence to securityNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet41:43Kashin's ten-day endurance strengthens the case for larger shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:52America in the Central Powers and British coal controlQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:02The Second Pacific Squadron reaches VladivostokQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:10Fleet consequences of a prolonged 1920s oil crisisQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:13Why the Royal Navy accumulated so many gun calibresQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:12Why a new gun standard left older weapons in serviceQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?0:55Pearl Harbor's carrier turnaround opens a January windowNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?18:24Mediterranean losses and repairs constrain Allied reinforcementsNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?22:30Industrial asymmetry makes a costly Japanese victory dangerousNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?25:08January reinforcements fill the fleet's carrier and AA gapsChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?53:12Singapore as a submarine base against Japan's resource lifelineNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?58:08Why the Dutch East Indies pulls Allied carriers togetherChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:17:33Saving Force Z eases the Royal Navy's 1941 capital-ship crisisNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:19:56The proposed Eastern Fleet stays within reinforcement limitsNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:24:41Singapore could give US submarines a better-tested torpedo optionNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:26:14Earlier Japanese attrition leaves the wider outcome uncertainNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?0:53When an escort shortage sends a tanker after a submarineNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?1:32:47Why small task groups use one-stop supply shipsNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?1:33:37Fleet auxiliaries need rotation and protection tooNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:29:00Why current at-sea VLS reloading may be too cumbersomeQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start40:10Why the First World War Flower-class sloops are overlookedQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start43:16Vulcan and the repair ships that carried workshops with the fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:22The aircraft carrier as a reloadable air-defence layerNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:17Why VLS reload mechanisms struggle at seaQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:40Arctic ice loads on HMS Belfast and HMS SheffieldQ&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?46:47Side talks carried the conference's practical workChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?57:52The charter gave neutral America a public narrativeChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:19:34Task groups should put aircraft on the ships that support them bestNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:53:28RFA manpower competes directly with commercial shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...18:40The Allies' most visible demonstrations of wartime capacityQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:50Why modern fleet auxiliaries matter more in the Pacific warQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:03Using service experience to plan defence procurementNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:51Why Britain might combine specialist support functionsQ&A
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?52:11Dockyard investment makes rapid refitting possibleNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live34:23An earlier Unicorn could support Victorious with the US NavyChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:28:33More cruisers turn Mediterranean sea control into logistics pressureChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:14:58Supporting more German surface raiders takes resources from U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:28Why a year's repair could still justify saving Prince of WalesNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:41Twenty modern SIGMA frigates arrive in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:16How independent bases shape Britain's route to the Far EastNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:44China's fleet size and the logistics of global reachNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:56Comparing naval task groups and their supportNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:17Wartime uses for a railroad car floatQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:02France's withdrawal from integrated command changed Atlantic reinforcement routesNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:35An amphibious support ship for Canada's ArcticQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:03Where extra Royal Navy money should go firstQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:22Sizing missile stockpiles for a sustained campaignQ&A
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII15:09Why exercises against America differed from preparations to fight JapanChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII32:28How fleet size affects maintenance and availabilityNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII35:45Why repeated warship production lowers costsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII39:16Janus at Anzio: 500 shells or 500 salvos?Notable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:59:04Carrier deployments test logistics and depend on destroyer availabilityNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order1:49Why the Royal Navy fielded so many gun calibresQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order41:34Fleet replacements depend on support ships and yard capacityNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order46:00Designing workshop space for uncrewed aircraftNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order48:54How Type 42 destroyers loaded Sea Dart missilesNotable Point
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:01Torpedo boats would threaten Germany's Norwegian reinforcement chainQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:45Endurance separates a modern corvette from a frigateQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:01The Hawaii Superferry found a military role after a commercial mismatchQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:44What a crew needs to remain at sea for weeksQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:48NATO naval contributions and the ability to sustain deploymentsNotable Point
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:33:21Why 31 Bay-class ships would not equal an amphibious fleetQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:37:12The most useful modern ship in World War II might be an oilerQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…47:39Cities, mountains, and ports favor a delaying defenseChapter
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…1:03:36Allied support could begin with intelligence and submarinesChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...58:19Advanced weapons need supporting systems ashore and afloatNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:59The civilian goods behind Britain's arms exportersNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:31Missile containers, merchant-ship targeting, and concealmentQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:06Building a European fleet independent of US supportQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:02Why ships benefit from GPS and Galileo togetherNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live54:17Which ocean liners made useful carrier conversions?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live1:41:18Baltic trade as a pressure point after the raidNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live3:02:16Tactics and logistics must be designed togetherNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!0:40Two naval books connect the world warsNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!6:46A coaling stop exposes Cap TrafalgarNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!46:41Type XXI ambition could not overcome logistics and ASW massNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!48:34Air raids and the Rhine advance disrupt U-boat assemblyNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...17:38German floatplanes trade field supportability for performanceNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...45:17Japan's attrition plan outruns its industrial baseNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...48:33Allied base-building breaks Japan's attrition timetableNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...1:13:02The Supermarine Walrus is designed to remain available worldwideNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...1:16:07Crated Walruses keep distant cruiser patrols supplied with aircraftNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...1:19:07British engine standardization aims at simpler naval logisticsNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!22:23Choose between a common hull and a specialist icebreakerNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!34:23Turn missions into measurable ship requirementsChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?15:52Why the 10,000-ton global warship keeps returningNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?37:05Soviet cruisers beyond the bastionsNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?48:09Mission bays can carry workshops for long deploymentsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun1:44Does each Taiwan-bound convoy need 10,000 VLS cells?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun9:28Why VLS rearming at sea changes fleet enduranceNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun35:54Shell defects and shared technology in the naval arms raceNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:17:00World of Warships Preussen battleships replace Germany's fleet in 1910Q&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:41:48Burke magazines and time away from stationChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:48:58VLS shuttle ships multiply the logistics forceQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:51:40Maintenance capacity is part of fleet strengthChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:54:22Uncrewed ships can supply a crewed relief effortQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:21:36Optionally crewed ships and uncrewed support tiersQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)3:03:34Uncrewed mass requires basing and logistics massQ&A
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!40:24Common diesels support distant Type 31 deploymentsNotable Point
- Navy Food: A Beginning1:18Salt meat, preservation, and nutritionChapter
- Navy Food: A Beginning6:23Ship's biscuit for voyage enduranceChapter
- Navy Food: A Beginning7:55Rum replaces bulky beer to extend operational rangeChapter
- Navy Food: A Beginning9:30Admiral Vernon's grog standard controls the rum rationChapter
- Navy Food: A Beginning16:23Curry and rice flour in naval mealsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics2:13Why logistics is combat powerChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics3:18VLS endurance depends on reloading between engagementsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics6:20Defending fleet auxiliaries inside the task groupChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics12:30Why Red Sea pickets are a poor convoy templateChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics15:42Why crossing missiles complicate convoy air defenseNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics18:19Merchant self-defense still needs maintainers at seaNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics51:21Why Russia's single rail line limited a longer war with JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:34British Hawaii and Pacific basingQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:50Robert Blake as a modern logistics admiralQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:42Tegetthoff-class strengths depended on yards and supplyQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:53:27Greece and Italy join the Central PowersQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:12:03A larger Panama Canal and American battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:21Why destroyer steam pressures laggedQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?13:58How the Admiralty divided work among the Sea LordsChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?30:47Why trade protection belongs beside naval logisticsNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:55:25Why fleet size overstates operational availabilityNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit1:46:14Shell production expanded faster than command's information systemsNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:29:42Jute supplied tents, coverings, rope, and transport sacksNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates27:05A layered escort model for modern convoysQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:41Working torpedoes as the US Navy's 1937 stockpileQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:34How sailors acquire missing equipmentQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:02Jurgen, Nog and fictional supply networksNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:42Why average failure rates do not identify the next missing spareNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:50Operation Petticoat and shipboard supply storiesNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:49Galley chiefs and the shipboard exchange of favorsNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:25:56US heavy cruisers become 15-inch ScharnhorstsQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:55What upgraded Australian yards should buildQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:29Portugal's support ships and frigate choicesQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:28What a modern HMS Unicorn would requireQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:54Refitting Hindenburg for Allied serviceQ&A
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 316:50Sustaining Japanese naval aviation beyond the first advanceChapter
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 335:15Why warrant officers practiced strategic planningNotable Point
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi1:18:14Cunningham's simple orders versus overcomplicated commandChapter
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet37:25Sixteen ships captured without Dutch battle lossesNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:38Why a long-range ship needs people outside its watch rotationsNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:54:19Lighter-aboard-ship logistics and the Mexeflote legacyQ&A
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers8:48Why Britain and Japan both needed survivable carriersNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers40:23Japan's attrition plan depended on the enemy cooperatingNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)50:10Ports and sustainment decide whether a beachhead survivesChapter
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:03:04PLAN portable offload systems trade flexibility for exposureQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:03:53How much supply would an amphibious force consume?Q&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:11:06Helicopter assaults can land troops but struggle to sustain themQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:13:20Damaged ports can still receive military sealiftQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:18:15Why complete containerization can hinder wartime logisticsQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:45:18Why the first seventy-two hours matterChapter
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:11:21A Taiwan relief effort would mobilize allied sealift fleetsQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:22:46Submarines would target the heavy lift an invasion cannot replaceQ&A
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:14:08The amphibious logistics behind the Falklands advanceNotable Point
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:25:33Special-forces demands versus amphibious logisticsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships1:42Why G3 and Iowa belong in different categoriesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships12:49Why navies converged on fast battleships differentlyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships23:21Why imperial distance kept capital-ship speed valuableNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships32:16Fourteen-inch guns, armour, and the Yamato problemQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships34:20How machinery wear could change a battleship's usable speedNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships35:00Nelson gun logistics and the F3 design boundaryNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle52:50Choosing a global network of fortified naval basesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:54:38Where would the Soviet Union put an inherited German fleet?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:49:29Letters of marque and paid convoy protectionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:31:30Why fuel constrained Yamato-class deploymentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:57:12Strategic materials before the modern rare-earth eraQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:36:15Why an oiler need not manoeuvre like a warship in a stormQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:36:46Why Littorio-class battleships would strain US operationsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:37:49Floating dry docks as deployable naval infrastructureQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:42:16Warehouse space for a port-based game economyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon10:57A great-power fleet could bankrupt a smaller navyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon21:28Why ten times more German ships would not secure sea controlQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:39:49Why theater geography matters when swapping the RN and USNQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon4:50:59Separating input materials from finished naval storesNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:05:38Fuel shortages drive the Cape Bon missionChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:10:18Why the first Italian fuel run turned backNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:22:40Cape Bon denies fuel and delivers a British victoryNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:29:02Why swapping Axis fleets cripples Italy and JapanQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:41:21Why an Allied fleet swap punishes the Soviet Union and BritainQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust39:29Why a river does not guarantee relief from a blockadeNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust44:31Afghanistan as a possible Soviet logistics route to the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:00:52An enlarged Kriegsmarine still needs a support systemQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:12:26The logistics benefit of standardizing on five-inch ammunitionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:37:01Why American entry in 1915 would not instantly end World War IQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:03:53Why modular weapons suit the proposed Baltic patrol vesselQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:31:07How fewer aircraft types make room for more carrier sparesNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:00:24Why ocean liners make the strongest hospital-ship conversionsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:05:29Landing-craft conversions and the shortage of fast tankersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:26:27Why a 1938 Anglo-American fleet swap breaks British global coverageQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:15:59Why ocean-going autonomous vessels still need shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust6:16:49Kandahar's exercises beside the losses on the Tobruk runNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust6:29:28Why command of the sea still required an army ashoreNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust6:58:01A 1940 fleet swap gives Britain powerful ships for the wrong warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust9:10:39The US Navy's post-1943 logistics advantageQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust30:35Where prewar Unicorn-class support ships would deployQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:06:40The Soviet 1962 fleet transported into 1942Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust3:59:38Building bases and patrols for a fictional Imperial fleetQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:07:33Supply bases and loyalty in a fictional Imperial campaignNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:38:05Imperial patrols after clarifying the Star Wars scenarioQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust6:57:39River access and the suggested supply route for Rosas's opponentsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust7:32:08Employment and railway links in the naval infrastructure proposalNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust7:33:46What could a 1920 infrastructure program do for aircraft production?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust7:34:40Modeling spoiled water and provisions in a naval simulationQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust7:59:02Sectional floating dry docks and lost repair capacityQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust8:00:13Would seventeenth-century canned food transform naval travel?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust11:44:27Why US warships carry the 25 mm BushmasterQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress4:04:43Why leadership alone could not transform the Regia MarinaQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:09:52A medium power built around deployable naval groupsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:12:06The auxiliaries and escorts behind a proposed reaction forceNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:05:58Why reloading vertical-launch cells at sea remains difficultQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:15:05Rebuilding merchant shipping after the First World WarQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:55:03How nuclear capital ships in 1938 would alter Japanese strategyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:43:11What a tender for ten Sunderland flying boats would requireQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:18:31Australia among the underrated navies of World War IIQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:07:36Gun performance, barrel wear, and distance from home industryNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:13:13Why British 4.7-inch guns did not all use the same ammunitionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:47:11Why naval artillery could regain importanceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:49:39Why Britain's preferred dual-purpose guns still complicated supplyNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II4:02:32Preparing the Soviet Navy for a future breakupQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II4:24:08Why older Harpoon missiles still have wartime valueQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:21:38If Franco received a large fleet in 1940Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:45:47Why captured European fleets would strain the KriegsmarineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I17:28Tracing Casablanca's 16-inch shells through wartime logisticsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:51:45Judging Gorshkov despite Soviet readiness limitsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I2:07:53How feedwater tanks became a wartime fuel reserveNotable Point
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:32When Chinese fleet growth may shift toward maintenanceQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:51Why uncrewed warships shift manpower costs ashoreQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:12Which warships could remain viable through a pandemicNotable Point
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy20:46Gorshkov becomes an amphibious warfare specialistChapter
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy22:56From Azov and Crimea to Danube logisticsChapter
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy30:42Good enough, fleet numbers, and readinessNotable Point
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy1:09:05The capability gaps that kept the Soviet Navy coastalNotable Point
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy1:10:55A balanced fleet must solve simultaneous tasksChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception26:37Timing Taranto around convoy cover and a concealed approachChapter
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:30Makarov alone could not save Port ArthurQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:13Why naval cooks resist automationNotable Point
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:14How navies balance stored supplies and continuing ordersQ&A
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!22:53Global naval power depends on transport and logisticsNotable Point
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!37:09Nearly finished carriers that Japan could not useChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:48:48Nuclear propulsion begins with carriers rather than submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:46The limits of uncrewed submarine resupplyQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:53Why warships are useful disaster-relief platformsNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:54Why paper ammunition loads need supply logsNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:34What Tribal-class torpedo tables leave outNotable Point
- William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?14:48Merchant cogs carried horses and suppliesChapter
- William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?21:25Early cogs and the invasion's second waveNotable Point
- William the Conqueror's Fleet of 1066; What was it? Where did it come from? Where did it go?33:17Why William's invasion fleet disappearedChapter
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold7:43Cruising against Sweden's supply networkNotable Point
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold23:23An inshore squadron attacks the artillery routeChapter
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold34:32Dynekilen ends the 1716 campaignNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:34Could Japan have stockpiled enough oil from the 1920s?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:36Why frozen meals strain Second World War logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:42How navies maintained hulls during wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:19:41Why a hospital ship rarely needs nuclear powerQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?17:11Even the largest navies depend on allied burden sharingNotable Point
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?24:25Reactor endurance does not solve fleet logisticsChapter
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?27:16Combat consumption defeats ammunition forecastsNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:42Australian dry docks could support the China StationQ&A
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan22:11Eighth Fleet restraint at the end of a long supply lineChapter
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan27:42Mikawa calls the Solomons an attritional black holeChapter
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?6:10Population limits favor ports and factoriesChapter
- Three Minor Empires: Why the Portguese, Dutch & Swedish Empires achieved what they did?9:07A trading empire disciplined by profitabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:38Why one NFR-90 hull could not fit every navyQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:15Standardise NATO systems rather than hullsNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:18Repairing Royal Navy ships in an Asian warQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:46Australian shipyards and strategic depthNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:40Magazine depth and reloading for a long naval warNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:42Carrier shortages and the capital-ship gapNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age55:03Large escorts may lead and maintain uncrewed task groupsNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command13:42Absent powers still shaped the Ottoman balanceNotable Point
- Battle of Lepanto 1571: Alliances of Command27:44Coalition members rationed their commitmentNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:55The Royal Fleet Auxiliary's pay problemQ&A
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships2:07Why sail persisted after steam arrivedChapter
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era26:40Navalizing an aircraft for saltwater operationsChapter
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era48:14Equitable capability through sustainable procurementChapter
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era50:29Why interwar carrier logistics favoured repairabilityNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?2:32The High Seas Fleet enters internmentChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?17:48How an intact fleet reshapes Allied bargainingChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?35:42Which German warships were the real prizesChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?56:51Why larger French and Italian fleets matter globallyNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:00:38An intact fleet breaks the historical 5:5:3 ratioChapter
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean43:17Prize salvage and prisoner exchange after TrafalgarNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean53:11Ottoman neutrality and naval support to the Peninsular WarChapter
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:05Canals behind Royal Navy industrial powerQ&A
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?8:21Paper strength concealed Third Fleet's attritionNotable Point
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?5:52Coral Sea logistics and the fast-tanker shortageChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?41:35Japanese Leyte forces divided by the oil shortageChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?44:20The Philippine route linked Japanese fuel and ammunitionChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut19:56Fleet standardization and the New Republic's logistics problemQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:53:42Smaller wartime cargo ships with electric pod drivesQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:21Why Operation Deadlight sank surrendered U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:43Why Allied navies would discard captured German battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:43Why a smaller Zumwalt crew may not mean lower costQ&A
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...12:05RDX performance collides with mass-production costNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P354:44An 80,000-ton American Pacific battleshipChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:04:44Could an 80,000-ton battleship exceed Panamax?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:52:51Would coal suit a Manchurian battleship?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:57:46An impressive battleship designed to be unmanageableNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:04:57Designing for Chinese cruisers and local maintenanceNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:19How sailing navies moved mast timber to dockyardsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:30Norway should not force one calibre ashore and afloatQ&A
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik27:11How Atlantic bases shape convoy routesNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:01Why an air-defense Type 31 would not replace Type 83Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:40Nordic fleet repairs and Britain's missile production reserveNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:46The wartime risk in just-in-time logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:36:16The difference between emergency repair and a full refitQ&A
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:29:16French 130 mm guns and the first-hit philosophyChapter
- Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville & the Battle of Hudson Bay(1697)25:25Ice removes the English fireship before battleNotable Point
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...26:46Three navies, three reasons for multi-carrier operationsNotable Point
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...31:30Operation MB8 as a fleet logistics systemChapter
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...1:00:17Four-carrier air groups and maintenance massChapter
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...1:27:40Convoys, the Afrika Korps, and CreteChapter
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:40The Galactic Empire meets the Yuuzhan VongQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:12What Ukraine suggests about preparing navies for high-intensity warQ&A
- Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.43:44Why three ships made the gun system unsustainableNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:06:04How much does cruising speed change a fleet's transit time?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:32Why early battlecruisers still burned coalQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:17Why a museum battleship cannot sail immediatelyQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:45Dogger Bank draws Britain and Germany into warQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:46:30Super Hawkins needs ammunition as well as additional gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:13:57Japan gains oil self-sufficiency in 1937Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:16:05Did Japan's low rubber use mean it needed little rubber?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:20:57Queen Mary as Churchill's mobile command postQ&A
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?2:10:33Fast battlecruisers could attempt Bataan supply runsQ&A
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?2:32:35Front-line exchange can make ABDA interoperability workNotable Point
- École navale: Where France Rebuilt a Navy12:24Why the floating school repeatedly needed new hullsNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:09Why submarines cannot replace surface fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:39The overlooked sloops and survey ships of naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:49:08US Atlantic submarines and the Allied division of effortQ&A
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory10:27Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and its logistics trapChapter
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory14:21St Vincent holds Toulon while Nelson huntsNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction52:12G3 and N3 designs fit imperial dockyards and treaty expectationsChapter
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:12:54Wartime supply and an equal postwar roleNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:27:03From the Atlantic Charter to the United NationsChapter
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:35:00Global logistics gave Security Council power practical weightNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)11:55Designing VLS for reloading at seaQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:16:01The RFA needs competitive civilian pay and reserve depthNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:15Why the first refrigerated warship is hard to identifyQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:19Why fleet tugs stay near the fighting forceQ&A
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!46:43San Giorgio anticipated later multirole support shipsNotable Point
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario2:54Why coerced rowers made unreliable propulsionNotable Point
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario19:13Girona's overloaded escape and wreck off IrelandChapter
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario19:31Why local pressure at Killybegs crowded GironaNotable Point
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario25:03A Coruña as an Atlantic shipbuilding and fleet baseChapter
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario28:48Why the Armada might have sailed from A CoruñaNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:25How far Wake Island relief planning advancedQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:35Naval manpower in First World War land battlesQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:10Containerized shipping in the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:45When warships ran out of fuelQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:42Tribal-class destroyer Atlantic rangeQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:13:07Was there a hierarchy among warrant trades?Q&A
- Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s27:28How Unicorn-style support ships could sustain dronesNotable Point
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys47:05Dutch O boats expose the logistics of an exiled fleetChapter
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys1:05:41Why Second World War submarines could claim long transit rangesNotable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada58:37Gravelines trapped the Armada between shoals and gunfireChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada1:06:57The forced northern retreat multiplied Armada lossesChapter
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:49How sailors' messes turned rations into mealsQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:19Why naval mess cooking differed from army cateringQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:02Royal Navy logistics before pallets and containersQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:42The sailing vessels still working in World War IIQ&A
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?53:14Crete and Malta close the eastern MediterraneanChapter
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?57:24Southern ports and radar make Crete resilientNotable Point
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?1:02:19Crete changes fleets, North Africa, and Force ZChapter
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit14:05Why a faster battle fleet moves strategy fasterNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit20:16Staged oilers accelerate reinforcement toward SingaporeNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit22:56Fuel, USS Nevada, and the Yangtze PatrolChapter
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:27Rebuilding Royal Sovereign without a support systemQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:43Italian tanker captures in the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:32Could Romulan warships double as cargo carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:19:32Peacetime displacement and extra wartime ammunitionNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:24:56Did U-boat sinkings sustain Germany's tonnage target?Q&A
- Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)15:27Ascension exposed the cost of rushed assault loadingChapter
- Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)17:44Distance constrained Argentine aircraft more than British sea basingNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability21:00German surface raiders and the cost of fragile aircraftChapter
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:28:08Why Britain and Japan both prized reliable naval aircraftNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:48:09Royal Navy cruiser aviation across primary and distant theatersChapter
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:55:35Why the Walrus survived production pressure and left some cruisersNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...40:37Falling river levels force the Union fleets awayNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:47Fletcher machinery offers little to a Canadian TribalQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:41:35How the Royal Navy sustains a global carrier deploymentQ&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?2:19Why the Royal Navy favored 300 psi boilersChapter
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?3:37Why global fleets value supportable machineryNotable Point
- Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat48:01Specialist aircraft versus one-airframe efficiencyChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…58:07What if Kido Butai was discovered before reaching Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:03:27Why Japan selected six carriers instead of its whole carrier forceChapter
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:07:21The logistical cost of taking more carriers to Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:20:05What if the Pacific Fleet had remained at San Diego?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:09:48Would destroying Pearl Harbor's infrastructure have changed the war?Q&A
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort24:16Why a damaged warship can burden a fleetNotable Point
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort50:01Cuddalore: victory without a captured shipChapter
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:18Could neutral minor navies have changed World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:44Type 31 magazine depth and fleet resupplyQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:40Why Italy could not sustain Ethiopia in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:22River craft near the trenches in World War IQ&A
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?23:27The Falklands as an expeditionary logistics warChapter
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?1:18:46Why Fifth Brigade struggled with amphibious logisticsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?54:13Could a stronger naval staff have fixed British shells before the First World War?Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:48Combat loading and the Falklands task forceQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:49Why US two-ship classes were supportableQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:21Diesel re-engining the Reichsmarine's old battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:05:05Why similar corvettes and frigates differ in sizeQ&A
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?20:48Why a surprise concentration was implausibleNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?30:30Small, varied classes magnified the readiness burdenNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?35:32Plan Z could not assume Norwegian and French basesNotable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose29:20Intelligence and logistics doomed the Saldanha expeditionNotable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose2:57:18Why 12-inch battlecruisers suited Dominion naviesNotable Point
- George of Antioch: The Scilian Admiral of Admirals who out foxed the Byzantines...36:00Becoming admiral of admirals through hard-earned commandChapter
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:02Ohio battleships turn the Doolittle Raid into a possible fleet trapNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:46Venezia-class cruisers strain Italy's fuel and British planningQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:39Shelf-stable rations transform Elizabethan sea enduranceQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:03:54A Queen Elizabeth-class carrier becomes an isolated command postQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?0:48Singapore shapes Britain's different route to war with JapanNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?6:32Wartime ammunition overloads created tropical storage problemsNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?9:24The pom-pom begins as a First World War heavy machine gunChapter
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?34:18The technical comparison turns on practical fire and ammunition supplyChapter
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?40:45Ammunition outfits reveal the air war a ship expectedNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?43:41Radar and barrel replacement altered wartime gun performanceNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?46:51A global navy needs viable weapons, not perfection everywhereNotable Point
- Britains Obsession with Supersonic Harriers38:45Five common V/STOL flight decks offered greater flexibilityChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:54:55A joint imperial expeditionary forceChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:18:39The Wash as a base for an enlarged battlecruiser forceNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:29Why the Royal Navy sank Pola instead of towing her homeQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:43A captured Pola could become an Australian prize cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:11Why some damaged warships were scuttled instead of towedQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:04French capital ships would be harder to sustain in the Far EastNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:49Why Britain did not need a torpedo-boat carrier in Southeast AsiaQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:34Britain and America approached the Pacific from opposite directionsNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:54Capital ships were often more valuable covering a towQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:05Why a ship carrying smaller warships rarely pays at seaQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:09Heavy-lift ships for damaged warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:18Holding Narvik reshapes both Arctic and Atlantic convoy warfareQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:03Holding Narvik could redirect Swedish iron ore into Allied steelNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:28The Royal Navy stored aviation fuel where the RAF did not expect itNotable Point
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!25:53A store ship led King into logistics and submarinesChapter
- 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...46:47Alexandria's limits push the fleet into Aboukir BayChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...1:22:07Corfu offered safety but not close support for EgyptNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...1:44:24Why were so many French sailors sent ashore?Q&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:41:33Salvage repairs and Leander's dispatch missionNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:46:24Sea control turns Napoleon's army into an isolated expeditionChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...18:50Operation C exposed the limits of Japanese supportNotable Point
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:00:25American concentration and Yorktown's 72-hour repairChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:35:43Aircraft replacement shortfalls weakened Japan before MidwayNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:41Why the Royal Navy delayed adopting the Mark 45 five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:21World of Warships super-battleships enter service in 1939Q&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII1:55:28O 12 class: escape, unexplained loss, and spare-parts triageChapter
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:19:39Why experienced Dutch crews preferred British T-class submarinesNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:19:28How Dutch submarines were sustained after occupationQ&A
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?4:24Russia's separated fleets and Sweden's archipelago defenceNotable Point
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!1:46Sea control versus maritime transport in the Imjin WarChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!31:05Japanese ships optimized for transport and boardingChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!40:30Korean coastal warships turn cannon into a force multiplierChapter
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...42:47An F3-style alternative for Nelson and RodneyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...44:19Larger naval guns and layered defense against dronesQ&A
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:55:07Distance and immature bases constrained the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...13:49Why early American isolationism still required overseas naval supportNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:51The timber bottleneck in building sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:10Could Brazil's rivers and forests have supported an earlier shipbuilding industry?Q&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:35MacArthur's absence and the Pacific War's logistical timetableQ&A
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction26:43The opposing fleet strategies could not meetChapter
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)2:53:18At Öland, supply and heavy guns favor RussiaChapter
- 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 learned1:00:44Rozhestvensky delivered an impossible fleet to East AsiaChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:06:40Coal, bases, and the voyage to East AsiaQ&A
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:17:30How Japanese bases and political support sustained operationsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:25:08An inadequate fleet train and unready battleshipsChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:32:49Why a fleet train still needed a network of basesNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:34:33Why Rozhestvensky had only one routeChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:40:00A balanced fleet beat arithmetic gun countingChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:45:58The land-and-rail alternative to a doomed fleetNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:04:34Russia's regional fleets lived in separate worldsChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:13:19What other navies learned from TsushimaChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:15:33Singapore as a theater-entry logistics baseNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:18:17Tsushima revealed Japan as a first-rate naval powerNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:22:28Tsushima's logistical logic in later warsChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:22:46Why Japan occupied islands with little immediate valueNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:24:44German battle planning and the distance to repairNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:27:45Look for the logistical battle before the battleNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:47Why warships struggled to escort the fastest linersNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?30:20Dido endurance suited fleet workNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?33:07Dido endurance beyond the official figuresNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?43:14Universal guns traded experimentation for logisticsNotable Point
- An Unknown critical plank in the Wooden Wall of Great Britain: Joshua Rowley23:01Howe as an all-round model of dependable commandNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?22:00The Pom-Pom's First World War baselineChapter
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?54:51Could crews change 40 mm barrels at sea?Q&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:00:33Why wartime fleets kept using obsolescent gunsNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:35:00Mediterranean fighting turns barrel wear into a supply chainChapter
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:38:04Could overseas bases reline Pom-Pom barrels?Q&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:51:04An old Pom-Pom against the North Atlantic Condor threatChapter
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:12:23Tropical ammunition failures begin with wartime stowageNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:46:44Was operating both 40 mm systems a serious logistics problem?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:34Why World War II submarines often sailed without doctorsNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:54Why cruise-missile ships do not replace sustained carrier strikesQ&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin54:02Japan's fleet moved armies but was not built for gunnery battlesChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?49:15Fleet readiness constrained Scheer's 1916 planNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:48Copper sheathing as an operational advantageQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:37Britain's interwar fuel-oil stockpilingQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:46Why an H-43 super-battleship would become Britain's priority targetQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:07Why Germany could not send its surface fleet to JapanQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:33:44British naval gun length, barrel wear, and distant basesNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:03:35How modern a warship could operate in the 1860s?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:55Could the 1860s reproduce Iron Duke's ammunition?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:21The case for arming the Nelson class with improved 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:29What the 1920s Royal Navy should stockpile for the next warQ&A
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina25:04Building one sustainable Regia MarinaChapter
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:21Why hospital ships and troopships disappear from naval historyQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:51Could First World War crews operate Bismarck's machinery?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued1:37Books on naval logistics and the Scramble for AfricaQ&A
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?7:23Why Kimmel's battle line was in Pearl HarborNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?9:54The fuel tanks Japan left intactChapter
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?37:12A South China Sea demonstration needs tankersNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?57:18Surviving battleships and the Guadalcanal campaignNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?35:11BETASOM gave Italian submarines an Atlantic baseChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?44:39A submarine victory could still lose the exchangeNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?50:15Tientsin could not sustain an Italian Pacific submarine campaignNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:31:30What best possible speed demanded below decksNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer2:03:06Malta Dockyard prepared ships for the next warChapter
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?2:12:23Civilian enablers give combat forces enduranceChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:35:48Cimarron-class oilers as fleet workhorsesQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:37:14How jumboization enlarged the Cimarron oilersQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:49:24Replacing the chartered Stena ImmaculateQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:19:59The return of the torpedo-boat tender as a drone mothershipQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:52:41Richard I's Crusade fleet of cogsQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?59:30An armored magazine that reloads VLS cells at seaNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:54:38Rodney enters the pursuit loaded for an American refitNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:51:45Malta Dockyard triages a fleet for the Far EastChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!3:38:08If Pearl Harbor's battle line sailed on 6 DecemberNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...16:33F3 versus G3 for Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...20:57Why F3's dockyard and ammunition needs matter against G3Q&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:23:33Disagreement over Iran's converted drone-support shipQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:48:50Sea Cat 2 and Royal Navy missile logisticsQ&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:29:24Fixed-wing aviation would turn the battleship into a carrierNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:01:14A large hull can solve vertical-launch reloading at seaChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?10:23William Fisher combined tactical, intelligence, and logistics experienceChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:19:01The Russo-Japanese War tested the deterrent fleet in combatNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:37How engineering crews adapted from coal to oilQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:20Food reserves as a limit on warship enduranceQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:37How Queen Elizabeth-class carriers move people, stores, and weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:12Why gallon differences did not derail Allied naval fuelingQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:17Why modern naval engagements are limited by magazinesQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:09Why 3D printing will reach ship parts before whole warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:12Why logistics would limit a Soviet M-class AA cruiserQ&A
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees12:20Infrastructure makes ships into a sustainable fleetChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:54:00Victory embodied 250 years of national investmentChapter
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras43:34Gibraltar's dockyard restored Saumarez's squadronChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...16:03Sané's 74 and the Royal Navy's adaptationChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:25:02War plans against Japan drive carrier survivabilityNotable 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...Restart 2!1:26:18Type 31 names and support for an uncrewed fleetNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…6:00The Total War faction and the efficiency trapNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…31:20What arming a ship en flûte meantNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:22:57Scurvy prevention and Channel Fleet healthNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:24:22Jervis confronts the Navy Board and dockyardsChapter
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:29:30Block-making machinery and fleet-scale supplyNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live27:00Dockyard organization makes a fleet possibleChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live36:31What became of the Navy's timber organization?Q&A
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live48:40Timber, rope, and stores constrain wooden warship constructionChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live1:01:11Dutch Admiralties fragment standards and suppliesNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live2:42:34HMS Victory as the product of an institutional systemChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live3:23:48Reserve depth stood behind the wooden wallNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:34Why the Royal Navy adopted the 5-inch/62 gunQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:45Why Queen Elizabeth-class carriers are conventionally poweredNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:24French-funded nuclear certification at SouthamptonQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:28Why Seabee construction was critical in the PacificQ&A
- Paulet Affair of 1843: When the Royal Navy found itself in charge of Hawaii0:00Why Britain preferred an independent HawaiiChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?43:01Why Japanese supply shipping made Force Z's sortie rationalChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?1:40:02Does Singapore still fall with Indomitable in Force Z?Q&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?1:40:55How Albacores could attack transports in shallow anchoragesNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?1:50:27Supplying a reinforced fleet at SingaporeQ&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:37:03Indomitable's reconnaissance could reshape the Malayan campaignChapter
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:39A common twin-engine Fleet Air Arm airframeQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:27Would a second engine greatly increase carrier-aircraft downtime?Q&A
- Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?1:06:03Russia's Ganguts fit the limit, but its global requirements do notNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?2:03Global trade routes met an infrastructure bottleneckChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?11:31Tenders could open patrol bases before airfields were readyNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?14:23Fast fleet oilers were traded against amphibious liftNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?22:12The US Navy example exposed Britain's funding problemChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?52:51A mobile tender network traded completeness for flexibilityChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?1:08:42HMS Albatross and the politics of making the caseChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?1:13:37Merchant-hull dependence exposes the preparation gapNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth0:00Britain's wartime oil problem was tanker capacityChapter
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth2:59British tanker control shaped postwar fuel policyNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth4:38Why naval fuel history needs deeper source scrutinyNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth17:57Fuel endurance could force an enemy fleet's destinationNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth24:00Colliers consumed the coal they carried to the fleetChapter
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth28:16Weather and lost operating time limited coaling at seaNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth30:11Steam made energy consumption a strategic variableNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth41:18States underwrote new energy infrastructureNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth59:19Owning oil fields did not deliver fuel to the fleetChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command53:59Operation Fish tests Agar's care for HMS Emerald's crewNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:31Keeping UNCF industry alive in concealed asteroid basesNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:46NATO replenishment-at-sea capability and its limitsQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:12How many ships of the line could overwhelm a modern frigate?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:44How far back could a coal-fired USS Texas remain supportable?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:51Chinese coal mining and the scale needed to support USS TexasNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:28Could historical Japan support a coal-fired USS Texas?Q&A
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked15:43How the Navy Board managed ships and dockyardsChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked25:21The Navy Board offices that supplied the fleetChapter
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked28:31One official, two titles, and different inspection powersNotable Point
- How effective was the Russian Navy6:25Alexander I leaves the navy behind the armyChapter
- How effective was the Russian Navy10:59Naval logistics in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829Chapter
- How effective was the Russian Navy12:18How force size and distance multiply a logistics tailNotable Point
- How effective was the Russian Navy23:23The Russian Navy was as effective as policy allowedChapter
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!48:11Why Eagle missed the First Battle of Cape FinisterreNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!2:16:43How Rodney's seniority might have changed ChesapeakeNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!2:36:01Rodney declines personal command for the Chesapeake responseNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!3:13:47What animals and women could be aboard sailing warships?Q&A
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...28:59Lepanto's coalition and Bazán's decisive reserveChapter
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...29:50Sea control during the Alpujarras rebellionNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...35:48Atlantic logistics decide the Portuguese succession warNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...48:22Drake at Lisbon and Santa Cruz's refusal to sail unreadyNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...55:34A landing-first solution to fireships and Parma coordinationNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...1:00:25Isle of Wight and Essex landing optionsNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:17Falklands losses and the gap between advertised and combat effectivenessQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:13Nearby rescue assets reduced Falklands casualties per ship lostQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:05North Carolina and the limits of importing a carrier designNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:55:03New Ironsides in the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:20:08Why a Mark 41-equipped Renown might retain British missilesQ&A
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him49:36Tuxpan blockade duty and a yellow-fever outbreakChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership Becomes Him1:22:39The Union's rare complete command candidateNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!12:55Italian bases and raiders threatened trade beyond the MediterraneanNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!14:48Seaplane tenders as movable aviation infrastructureNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!18:01What a seaplane tender must carry and supportChapter
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!22:55Why tenders could use ordinary supply shipsNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!34:30Moving the fleet's aviation workshops to distant portsChapter
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!50:20The US Navy model for a movable seaplane baseChapter
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!1:11:55Building a defended air station with two tendersChapter
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!1:40:00A tender is a floating repair baseNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!1:59:53Preparing replacement aircraft at a movable forward baseNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:21:55Could a tender become a local maintenance hub?Q&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:52:19Was there a need for freshwater seaplane tenders?Q&A
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'3:00Elizabethan naval support becomes a working institutionNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'52:04Coastal logistics sustain the English pursuitNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:06:54Why an alternative Spanish landing remained difficultNotable Point
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:12:48Gravelines reveals the limits of sustained gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:33Floating dry docks as mobile strategic infrastructureQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...55:43A naval staff could turn intelligence into workable operationsChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:46:39Longer gun barrels imposed a worldwide maintenance burdenNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:14:47Building the logistical base for war with RussiaChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:19:19Why wartime training could not be conserved awayNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:21:44Choosing the ground for decisive battle at TsushimaChapter
- 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
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live20:00The Navy Board offices that sustained the fleetChapter
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II39:39A surprise German fleet on the eve of warQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II52:40How the Korean War shaped the post-war US NavyQ&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:52:43Why a 14-inch 45-calibre gun may beat a longer barrelNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:54:33Would the gun choice make replacement cranes cheaper?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:04:51Would missing oil storage prevent an earlier fuel transition?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:07:20Where would an earlier oil-fired fleet get fuel?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:12:52Could Britain obtain naval oil from Iraq or Canada?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:16:28What limits the size of a battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...13:52How seaborne trade shaped British foodQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...20:10Why heavily salted naval provisions needed seasoningNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...21:59Salted provisions, grog, and drink at seaQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:04:16Alexandria would not remove Italy's Mediterranean constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:21:08Why future warships cannot solve Germany's industrial problemQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:10:28How a Panama Canal attack could delay the Pacific warQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:48:22Why 16.5-inch guns rarely justify replacing 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 911:03When a commissioned warship counted as a transport or store shipNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience48:16USS Ferret and a first independent commandChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:26:13Why ships could carry heavier shells than armiesNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:28:10Ordnance expertise becomes institutional leadershipNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:31:14Building Mare Island and a Pacific naval baseChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience1:48:36Why a maritime blockade could strangle Confederate tradeNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience2:12:51Porter turns available schooners into mortar vesselsNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:00:34Sea control turns replacement depth into powerNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience3:57:22Victory in the bay did not capture MobileNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:15:26Farragut's leadership: detail, support, and calculated riskNotable Point
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:31:42Rope shortages reveal Confederate industrial strainNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:50:59Early destroyer losses restricted Germany's later operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise5:12Six-inch dual-purpose guns and barrel-life tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise35:34The Royal Navy's eighteenth-century timber crisisQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube1:17:35President Masaryk's light armour and mixed ammunition supplyNotable Point
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral8:31Commissioning and returning merchant ships for royal serviceChapter
- William de Leybourne: The First Admiral14:08How maritime supply sustained medieval armiesNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:44:33Why Agrippa stands out among ancient naval commandersQ&A
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral5:04Rozhestvensky and the achievement hidden by TsushimaNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral10:30Kimmel's scouting-force background and carrier-raid plansChapter
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:25:25Carrier endurance depends on logistics and adaptationNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:28:32British carrier armour and the distance to repair yardsNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:30:00The carrier debate is also an air-wing and maintenance debateChapter
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:45:23Sailing ships created modern wartime boarding problemsNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…6:49Why wartime trade cannot simply stopChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?37:46Copper sheathing as a costly Royal Navy advantageQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:55:53The last warships maintainable without modern industryQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:14:01The endurance tradeoff between VLS and swing-arm launchersNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War10:13Lionel Tufnell brings engineering logic to Greek naval reformNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War58:48Lemnos confirms Greek control and drives Ottoman battleship ordersChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...56:34Selling F3 through cost and 15-inch standardizationChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:04:45Did the 15-inch/50 use the same shell as the 15-inch/42?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:47:10Could Australian docks support a Queen Elizabeth?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:00:13Ceylon factories could shorten North African supply routesChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:01:03Does the Royal Navy need an ultra-long-range cruiser?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:07:25British and American Pacific range needs differNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:09:48American resources and Britain's convoy problemNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:21:28Should Britain have adopted more diesel propulsion?Q&A
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 511:18Sea power is more than decisive battleChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 559:53Logistics commanders who had sustained and attacked fleetsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 39:49Power and replenishment for sustained carrier strikeChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 347:16A carrier must be bought as a system of systemsChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 31:05:45Carrier power depends on the logistical tailNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates37:24Hammocks, crowded mess decks, and a substantial galleyChapter
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates50:35Operating the manual high-angle 4-inch mountingNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202448:09When convoys began and why technology has not made them obsoleteQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202454:21Why merchant crews, not hulls, become the wartime bottleneckNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:45:31How close unrestricted submarine warfare brought Britain to starvationQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:53:47Why Liberty ships were essential and an interwar merchant race could have changed the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:33:36How many people can a Nimitz-class carrier transport?Q&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:49:21A 1945 United States Navy dropped into the Barbary WarsQ&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit2:16Why an island capital makes convoys indispensableNotable Point
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit1:40:36Where should southern Swedish troops deploy before the civil war?Q&A
- Battle of Elli2:30:11Could Anglo-French intervention have divided Ottoman territory earlier?Q&A
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 452:07Convoy concentration, dispersion, and forgotten global riskNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:44:44Brewery ships brought civilian skills into Pacific logisticsQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:07:07Why food matters so much to submarine moraleNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:12:06ASW evolution and the possible return of flying boatsNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:17:01Could a flying boat use Hercules-style cargo doors?Q&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:33:08Why Australia needs SSN range and transit speedQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:58:49Why Ascension and the Falklands still matter logisticallyQ&A
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 340:29Reserve activation turns readiness into combat powerNotable Point
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:26:26Roman waterborne logistics shaped imperial deploymentNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!41:41Floating and overseas dry docks extend carrier repair accessChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!43:19Ammunition handling and work-up extend the refit cycleChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:05:45A port visit is not the same as a sustaining carrier baseChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:28:11Specialist administration keeps the carrier system movingChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:30:21Defence administration needs specialists and institutional memoryChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:39:05Thousands of distributed suppliers sustain a carrier after commissioningNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes1:32:15A crewed support ship could sustain several uncrewed escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:14:07How a navy expanded Pergamon's reachQ&A
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality2:13:38Enforcement shifted from British power to American capacityNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality2:33:52What if Britain had supported Mexico against the United States?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...55:48Why amphibious assault ships remain conventionally poweredNotable Point
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians11:56Rivers and sea lanes held the Roman Empire togetherNotable Point
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates40:29An East Indiaman carried the Macartney embassy to ChinaNotable Point
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates41:41Hindostan combined resilience, stores capacity, and prize earningChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo32:12Britannic as a mobile wartime hospitalChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:19:00Dunedin's captures of Hannover and Enigma equipmentNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:42:12Why capital-ship dry docks mattered more by location than ratioQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:52:02Would Indian independence make naval infrastructure a bad investment?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:27:36Why US submarines entered the Sea of Japan lateQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:05:11Restoring high-speed carrier-group mobilityQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:25:20Keeping a recovered Warrior armed in a fictional worldNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:17:21What it takes for a navy to introduce aircraft carriersQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/435:24Why the Royal Navy held so many spare four-inch barrelsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/439:23A carrier victory would not solve Japan's Midway invasion problemsNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/447:34Dividing Torch between Guadalcanal and Eighth ArmyNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:28:24Hospital ships turn casualty evacuation into force protectionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:40:00British wartime timber without the naval forestsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:40:33Tenders and depot ships are the warships people overlookQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:41:39How the Royal Navy fixed its early-war torpedo failuresQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:34:57Why Admiral Hipper-class cruisers needed such large crewsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:51:08How naval timber planning outlived the sailing battlefleetQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:45:02Why a carrier-sized arsenal ship is difficult to sustainQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:29:04Spain could provide sailors, not a useful Pacific fleetQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:56:56Domestic oil would give Japan time, not solve its warQ&A
- Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 16:20Why early carrier jets could not immediately replace piston aircraftNotable Point
- Only a Sea Fury: Peaking Obsolescence or Forgotten Innovation? Key Aircraft Series 3 Aircraft 126:38Why the Royal Navy retained the Sea Fury after 1945Chapter
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:24:54Japanese withdrawal buys an armed pauseChapter
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:36:32A carrier breakdown could abort the Pearl Harbor raidQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 74:43A British carrier force changes the Singapore counterattackQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 733:25Welsh coal quality does not remove the logistics problemNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:00:32A carrier is vulnerable, but a fixed air base is easier to findNotable Point
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:11:15Russia's coast-defence problem and why carriers persistNotable Point
- Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS28:52Global carrier priorities shape Operation TungstenNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax40:17Why converting every cruiser into a carrier failsNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:33:49Why naval machinery and logistics depended on fuel gradeQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:56:45Why mixed battleship calibers would not confine the KGVs to home watersQ&A
- The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 71:01:27Eagle carries the Mediterranean Fleet's early air warChapter
- The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 71:12:49Radar and close-range air defence reshape Eagle's final refitChapter
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 140:33Carrier armour and the Far East reinforcement problemNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:04:55Why wartime carrier machinery wore out so quicklyNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 12:01:49Why carriers endure when their aircraft changeNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:04:32Missile capacity follows a warship's missionQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:12:02What happened to the Royal Navy's fast fleet oilersQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:39:19Containerization needed an earlier start to change Lend-LeaseQ&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'41:55How a large navy assigns first-, second-, and tertiary-line dutiesNotable Point
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers54:13Malta's balance of air power and survivabilityChapter
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers57:12Mobile seaborne nuclear strike and USS United StatesNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...56:42Why a smaller navy can have greater reachNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:04:19Why American ships of the line were awkward Royal Navy reservesQ&A
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!11:32Numbers create naval presenceNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!23:29Third rates for a global empireChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!44:16A third-rate lesson for modern force designNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s24:15The seaplane carrier as a mobile air baseNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:45:21What nuclear propulsion would change in an interwar heavy cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:13:39The Great White Fleet's vulnerability to losing its coaling networkQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:41:32A carrier can power disaster relief, not an entire national gridQ&A
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII9:01Why Guadalcanal drew the carrier forces inChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII24:19Logistics halted Japan's early expansionChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII28:03Santa Cruz could not reverse GuadalcanalNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII31:20Guadalcanal exposed conquest without consolidationNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII32:42A thin garrison meets an amphibious forceChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII35:22Marine support units and piecemeal Japanese reinforcementNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII42:11Yamamoto and Nimitz manage imperfect resourcesChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII45:23Industrial world war stretched command across the globeNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:43:31Why asymmetric warfare is harder at seaChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!1:24Domestic technology still needs enough ships and support crewsNotable Point
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!9:10A carrier as an enabler, command ship, and national symbolNotable Point
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!33:11Why food still limits a nuclear carrier's enduranceNotable Point
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.3:02:55Naval operations during the ReconquistaQ&A
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?45:28The Dardanelles were Russia's economic lifelineNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons46:29Why flying boats remained usefulNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons53:52Maritime interdiction to protect the land warChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:09:29British landings in Norway and Soviet threat perceptionsNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:14:26Convoy routes and the fight to keep NATO out of the BarentsNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:11:03A modern cruiser with 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:36:10If Indianapolis were lost before TinianQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....2:32:23Why underway VLS replenishment is difficultQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...21:45Allied dry docks are not a nuclear-carrier support systemNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:10:56Opening the Black Sea route to RussiaChapter
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:16:51Why sea control still needs surface shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall7:23Would early Libyan oil revive Italy's unfinished capital ships?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall39:09Could a non-radioactive heat source transform the Russo-Japanese War?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:17:30A modern British guided-missile cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:35:59Why more nuclear merchant ships would not solve acceptanceQ&A
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?26:43How geography and maintenance helped destroy Great MichaelNotable Point
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!46:48Henderson's 15-inch/45 alternative for King George VQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:05:42A radiation-free heat source for early twentieth-century fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:16:09Containerized shipping in the First World WarQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:38:18How fuel-free capital ships reshape Britain's war economyQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:52:10What the panel would change before the Second World WarQ&A
- Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier1:39Why capable reusable drones still need carriersChapter
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:03:59Interwar navies in AntarcticaQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:20:05Why the Pacific submarine campaign needed two commandsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:35:45France sustains captured High Seas Fleet shipsQ&A
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...9:00Carrier size pays for systems, stores, and peopleNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...24:24East of Suez commitments outlived the basesNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...40:45Designing carriers for larger future aircraftChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s21:46Commercial ports and railways as wartime supply infrastructureNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s21:46Dry docks and ports as strategic infrastructureNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s27:50Defending bases that support imperial tradeNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s59:10Railways as a military mobility reserveChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:09:57Singapore's supply routes and the limits of the Malta comparisonNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:31:06Merchant shipping as latent naval capacityNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:34:43Prepared islands and defensive depthNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat43:42How log rafts could serve in riverine warfareQ&A
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier48:36U-class boats, Malta, and torpedo economyChapter
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier1:02:50Splendid's cargo interdiction during the North African campaignNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!12:35Why KGV's 5.25-inch guns were not simply wasted weightQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!3:02:36French naval strength in 1870 before the Jeune ÉcoleQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?4:21A weapon for offsetting American industrial massNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...37:14Frequent carrier movement makes nuclear endurance attractiveNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...38:26Multiple carriers concentrate air power and mutual supportChapter
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...40:10A moving airbase changes the enemy's targeting problemNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...44:54A C-130 landing tests large-aircraft carrier deliveryNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:51:51Removing spent and loaded VLS containersQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!31:46Portsmouth and Plymouth relied on extensive dockyard storageQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!50:18Ship's boats were essential mobility before helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:21:30A 15-inch King George V design could simplify guns and logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:23:33Manning shortages affect logistics fleets as well as warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:43:18Why navies repeatedly outgrow the small-networked-fleet ideaQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:58:16Mixed 40 mm systems complicate a warship's ammunition supplyQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!2:03:36Bofors shortages began with peacetime orders and factory toolingQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!2:16:00Topweight, crew, and ammunition limited Audacious-class anti-aircraft armamentQ&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 37:53Port capacity constrains fleet repair and deploymentNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 323:48Islands and ports as a logistics networkNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:17:40Why turbines trigger a fleet-wide refit problemNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 21:26:18Repair ports can pull a fleet away from the warNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 22:11:09How Age-of-Sail blockades stayed suppliedQ&A
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier0:00What naval logistics must sustainChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier5:37A fleet's fighting edge needs a logistical bodyNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier23:13Italy's capable fleet lacks logistical depthChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier27:33A hollow fleet could restrain MussoliniNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier28:16Soviet naval logistics loses its experienced organisersChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier34:18France's far-flung bases lack a unified support systemChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier45:19American production changes the maintenance equationNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier57:23Merchant shipping carries Britain's strategic supply loadChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:03:12National strategy sets each navy's logistical ceilingNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:06:22Trade routes define strategic enduranceNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:09:33Japan's expansion outpaces its ability to sustain itChapter
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:19:39Design a support system for a minor navyNotable Point
- War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion38:51Invasion airfields and amphibious-lift bottlenecksNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 12:01:53Panama Canal timing changes two-ocean fleet routingNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 12:31:38Gibraltar coal sustains a distant fleetNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 12:35:13Planning a Balearic supply baseNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 12:47:30The Balearic base immediately supports recoveryNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:27:45British responses to very large guns and imperial logisticsNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!1:14:01Tsushima showed how geography could do the attritionNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!1:20:26Allied logistics countered Japan's attrition strategyChapter
- Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign22:13What mothballing a warship actually involvesNotable Point
- How would a Naval Historian Change the Goa'uld Fleet to be supreme? Patreon Premier 741:28Diversify the fleet and make reserves usableNotable Point
- How would a Naval Historian Change the Goa'uld Fleet to be supreme? Patreon Premier 751:34Henry VII and readiness over paper fleet strengthNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!9:27Woolworths carriers and why Britain modified themChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!12:15Steam turbines and carrier handlingNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!20:54Aircraft ferrying as Pacific logisticsChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!22:39Moffett, Mitchell, and the politics of aircraft ferryingNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!27:40How the ferry mission shaped escort-carrier designChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!35:03Escort carriers as self-contained mobile airfieldsChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!38:53USS Copahee and the strategic value of aircraft ferryingNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!47:08Why Far East bomber reinforcement required sea transportNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 512:51Carrier air power as Japanese offset strategyNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 549:46Early air groups and second-line aircraftNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 559:49Pearl Harbor's second wave as a sortie-generation problemNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier6:55State finance is not military commandNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier43:30Fleet imbalance and global infrastructureChapter
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier1:09:19Canada, coastal logistics, and the Great LakesChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 536:59Global utility and cost per useful hullChapter
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff11:47British Far East fleet plans and imperial scaleQ&A
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff14:03Singapore, imperial mobilization, and the shock of France's fallNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff26:37HMS Unicorn and forward aviation supportQ&A
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff28:52Henderson, Goodall, and a fleet sustainable far from BritainNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?4:01What makes a war emergency carrier differentChapter
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?51:35A modern emergency carrier starts with industrial choicesChapter
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?53:48Available production shaped every emergency carrierNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign49:16Why every available turret is a logistics trapNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign55:24Naval industry beyond maximum yard sizeNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:10:34Old warships as imperial presence and invasion tonnageQ&A
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:08:25Refitting an obsolete battleship under weight constraintsChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 423:52HMS Union, hospital conversion, and naval capacityChapter
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!7:08Exercises, not Abyssinia, shaped the support-ship requirementNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!11:31Unicorn carries deep aviation maintenance forwardNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!24:03The base chain behind Britain's planned war with JapanChapter
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!27:53Why Japan was the Royal Navy's hardest planning caseNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!30:48A flex deck and workshops built around damaged aircraftNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!33:51Range and repair capacity took priority over fleet-carrier speedNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!37:24Workshops adapted for the Eastern and British Pacific FleetsChapter
- 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
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!46:30Korea and the economics of mobile global supportNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!49:49What Unicorn suggests about drone-support shipsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign20:29Mine risk, convoy losses, and deterrenceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign23:16Mediterranean invasion positioningNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign54:43Destroyers must defend the convoyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:22:35Thin convoy escort and Mediterranean controlNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign57:51Mediterranean invasion geometryNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:33:55Concentrating fleet tonnage for naval invasionsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:01:03Submarine minelaying as strategic disruptionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:05:35The Philippines and South China Sea controlNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 312:38Why distant stations demanded survivable carriersNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 326:28Implacable versus Illustrious capacityNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 347:37Armament, endurance, and wartime growth marginsChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:21:22Implacable's Pacific sorties and Operation OlympicChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:26:49Carriers as postwar transports and repatriation shipsChapter
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:50:19Plan for damaged-warship recovery and repairNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:51:49Losing an engine supplier can immobilize a fleetNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:56:46Oil revenue supports naval expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:04:15Canals, dry docks, and an Admiral-class carrierQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:14:25Breaking an invasion by destroying its liftQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:17:42When carrier air groups began flying aboardQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:28:14Designing a disguised auxiliary cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:12:02Spearfish and Avenger in parallel serviceQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:29:31What happened to Lend-Lease equipment after the warQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:58:22Converting cruise liners into NATO hospital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:15:16The Royal Navy's long drive toward automationQ&A
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 525:21Pegasus engines and Far East logisticsNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 529:20HMS Unicorn as a mobile aircraft workshopNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 530:49A wider Anglo-Japanese war patrol mapNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:17:27New 15-inch guns supported by a global ammunition systemNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:52:11Gun-barrel wear and Britain's global supply linesNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines18:00Pacific alpha-strike logicNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines20:57Implacable class and the Royal Navy compromiseChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines30:20British bases, fleet oilers, and carrier enduranceChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines31:06Fuel infrastructure under the Ten Year RuleNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines48:46Which carrier is better depends on doctrineNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines52:38Essex's endurance for an advance across the PacificNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...26:22Why teak ships still favored copper sheathingQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...29:19Why nineteenth-century navies landed naval brigadesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...37:25The worst Pearl Harbor outcome was an attempted occupationQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...41:18Fresh water as an age-of-sail endurance limitQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:01:27The personnel behind four hypothetical Finnish submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:27:25How sectional floating dry docks joined at seaQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:44:27Britain's response if Bismarck sank Hood and Prince of WalesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:45:41How Bismarck and Tirpitz together could threaten Arctic convoysNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:53:08Possible Japanese uses for Pearl Harbor's wrecked battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:57:40An invasion of Hawaii required a different logistics commitmentNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:04:02Labor cost drove shipboard automationQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:21:29Prewar super-sloops could ease the convoy escort crisisQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:24:49Baltic timber mattered most for specialized mast sparsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:35:28Smaller Japanese battleships: doctrine, fuel, and speedQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:19:56Why Imperial Japanese Navy automation faced a skills limitQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:21:04Mechanization aboard a Japanese battleship still needs supervisionQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:30:53Royal Navy automation began with saving hands aboard sailing shipsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:32:40VT fuzes saved magazine space and engagement timeNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:44:42Oilfield denial complicated Japan's Dutch East Indies gainsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:54:16The King George V class added a third battleship gun caliberQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:54:47The Royal Navy's many medium-caliber gun systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:56:23Why spare naval guns could not immediately rearm the ArmyNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:04:36Japan's ocean liners designed for carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:05:33Where the ShinMaywa US-2 flying boat makes senseQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:18:13Why unrestricted British carriers might resemble ImplacableQ&A
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!0:54Mediterranean convoys as Britain's strategic linkChapter
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!6:33The Malta-Alexandria convoy patternChapter
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!8:10Why Alexandria offered Malta a safer supply routeNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!10:49Operation Collar and Cape Spartivento after TarantoNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!15:14Club runs and submarine support for MaltaNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!18:42Malta as an aircraft staging point for North AfricaNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!23:46The success rate behind ordinary convoy runsNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!27:10Operation Tiger's layered convoy deceptionChapter
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!32:05Why Mediterranean convoy battles were two-sided fightsNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!34:08Supplying Malta and fueling the destroyers' returnNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!45:41Operation Splice and carrier aircraft transferChapter
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!56:30Operation Rocket repeated the carrier ferry runNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!57:17Repeated deliveries strengthened Gibraltar's defensesNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!59:53Spare forces kept repeated supply operations movingNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:02:06Deferred maintenance can cause a sudden loss of aircraftNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:08:57Quantity creates operational opportunityNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:11:59The modern contested-resupply problemNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 25:22Early first rates needed supply support and careful stabilityNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 222:45Ports, timber management, and Britain's first-rate fleetNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 245:05Fleet numbers versus individual ship strengthNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)29:34French captures adapted for British serviceNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)34:06Long voyages and long periods on blockadeQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:14:13HMS Invincible and the making of senior commandersChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:37:20Why the Royal Navy would try to save Prince of WalesQ&A
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class27:25Machinery and range for Pacific operationsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:27:02Operation Sea Lion as an amphibious logistics problemChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:47:22Raiding logistics and the strain on Royal Navy escortsNotable Point
- 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 Mission2:41:41Bismarck's fuel crisis and conflicting morale messagesChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!46:44Designing a French navy at five percent of GDPQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!51:34Dominion autonomy after the Statute of WestminsterQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:05:46Imperial dockyards and Royal Navy strategyQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:17:57Standardizing the Royal Navy on the 4.7-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:55:45Building naval aircraft in the DominionsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:05:45Overseas Merlin factories and Mediterranean logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:34:43Who runs shops aboard Royal Navy warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:39:21Warships carrying cargo in the age of sailQ&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests39:40The range problem in Mitchell's continental air defenseNotable Point
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests48:47The Chesapeake range tested air defense claims as well as bombsNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:40Malta convoys beyond the famous threeChapter
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice20:28Club runs and early Malta air supplyChapter
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice30:03Malta's 1940 supply build-upNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice41:01Operation Husky shortens Malta's supply routeNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice47:22Long-range Spitfires end the club-run eraNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice56:58Tiger and Splice as overlooked convoy successesNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:10:19Malta convoy success and its costNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:13:38When a damaged merchant ship still counted as successQ&A
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:18:18Operation Tiger's heavy cover and mine lossChapter
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:38:01Splice, fighters, fuel, and convoy timingChapter
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:48:00Rocket and Malta's strike reachNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice2:12:30Malta convoy pressure and recovery in 1942Notable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice2:15:41Emptying Grand Harbour for the next convoyNotable Point
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem11:55Borneo turns 845 into the JungliesChapter
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem16:55Why a worked-up helicopter unit gets the hard jobsNotable Point
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem20:31Borneo logistics reward carrier-style self-sufficiencyNotable Point
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem24:41A fatal Bulwark fire and a thousand Malta withdrawal missionsNotable Point
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem25:33The Falklands amphibious force needs ships, craft, and helicoptersChapter
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem29:07Recall, Ascension resupply, and the South Georgia insertionChapter
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem31:44Atlantic Conveyor exposes the wartime helicopter marginNotable Point
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem34:06First-in, last-out helicopter support after the Cold WarNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered24:24The Elbonian navy as a warning about incompatible fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:21:00Why transferred Axis submarines brought Japan limited valueQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign20:17Surface raiders need places to repairNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:18:36Port capacity, personnel, and submarine sea denialNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:57:13Destroyer and submarine mass buildoutNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:04:04Low-fuel destroyers and battle-line focusNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!12:33Why common machinery mattered across the Chatham shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?46:16Could British neutrality shape a US-Japan war?Q&A
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:20:30Army-Navy mistrust and missed joint exercisesNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement0:49Repairing capability before buying new equipmentChapter
- Musings on Procurement21:01Geography turns procurement into strategyChapter
- Musings on Procurement41:42Putting logistics first in the capability hierarchyChapter
- Musings on Procurement48:01Designing expeditionary forces for the theatreChapter
- Musings on Procurement51:48Making budgets match real requirementsChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?27:24The Panama Canal sets the Lexingtons' design boundariesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign33:47Merchant-marine research and resilienceQ&A
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:02:00America as the next fleet-strength problemQ&A
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion10:32Rearming and maintenance make the carrier a mobile air baseNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion37:21Theater and operating practice change air group countsNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion50:33Carrier storage pushes aircraft toward multi-role designNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:11:53Carrier ammunition replenishment and the VLS reload gapNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:13:03Rare spares and shared airframes shape carrier resupplyNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:19:27Sortie endurance and rearming preserve the carrier's valueNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193832:38Why the Royal Navy avoided a wartime fuel crisisNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193835:04Did the six-week fuel warning include naval reserves?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:05:15Why the RFA needed few dedicated colliersQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:33:47Rebuilding the Spanish Navy from 1890Q&A
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion38:49A separate light-carrier allowance could reshape fleet rolesNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:18:08Unicorn supplies the armored carrier air groupNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:33:08From grog and unsafe water to a 'wet navy' traditionChapter
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:26:02Ship count, tonnage, and crews tell different fleet storiesNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:22:06Pom-pom failures as a logistics problemNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:48:51Support fleets for Dominion naviesQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:29:32How long a German Atlantic squadron could remain at seaQ&A
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast38:52Crew numbers become a submarine logistics problemNotable Point
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast39:57Edward L. Beach and the secret Sandblast planChapter
- 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 Sandblast1:08:34Sandblast changes habitability and undersea navigation practiceNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1054:36Stately at Zealand PointNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 101:19:47Nassau and the quiet value of presenceNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:16:14Reconnaissance moves into multi-role aircraftChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:19:35Carrier hangars balance aircraft, stores, and maintenance spaceNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:31:38Carrier programs must fund escorts and auxiliaries as a systemNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:37:37Carrier-onboard delivery extends the task group's reachChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:45:45Could aircraft resupply a carrier moving between theatres?Q&A
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...3:26:13Rearming and repair may make carriers more importantNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:18:47Carrier exercises expose first-blow and Pearl Harbor risksNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:45:45Two-ocean doctrine depends on yards, bases, and rapid productionChapter
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:54Ukraine's maritime campaign beyond ship lossesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign29:34Repairs compete with fleet constructionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign42:09Dock size limits G3 and N3 designsQ&A
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign43:00Royal Navy infrastructure cycles and wartime delayNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:25:09Ammunition storage for an enormous secondary batteryQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends14:25The Bengal famine and lost maritime capacityQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends19:45Empire railways and wartime sea logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends22:40How close the Cape-to-Cairo railway came to completionQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:54:40Why purpose-built cargo submarines remain poor transportsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:30:29Why Lion kept a 45-calibre sixteen-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:29:45Panama Canal width was not an anti-European plotQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:34:00Why the St. Lawrence Seaway is not called a canalQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:45:09Why convert Hawkins to six-inch gunsQ&A
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History26:35Warships arrive before Japan's land and air reinforcementsChapter
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History29:01Shipping losses expose India's dependence on sea transportNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History41:08A peaceful Pacific supports trade and supplies for North AfricaNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History50:55Suez becomes the Axis pressure pointChapter
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History54:41A secure Indian Ocean allows mobile fleet support to move westNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:09:17Soryu changes Mediterranean carrier operationsNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:12:04American equipment reaches North Africa through the Pacific and Indian OceansNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:51:10More carriers change the Arctic convoy covering forceNotable Point
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:52:54Crete-based bombers target Romanian oilChapter
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 212:13The C-1 Trader carried the Tracker airframe into fleet logisticsNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 239:12Grumman's robust airframe supported three fleet missionsNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:15:53Triton's speed, endurance, and uncertain depth limitsChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:49:26Food storage limits a two-month submerged voyageNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:51:58Q&A: Could a submarine grow fresh herbs?Q&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:27:10Q&A: Comparing surface world cruises with SandblastQ&A
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans45:25Delivery aircraft and elevators expose the carrier's internal limitsNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:03:33Freshwater reserve basins extend the old carrier's lifeNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:06:10Waterways and basing keep the carrier away from the Black SeaNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:09:45How could the Soviets keep Graf Zeppelin's machinery running?Q&A
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:28:20Would the Soviet carriers refuel their escorts?Q&A
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!51:20Hermes is a presence and information carrierChapter
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!1:02:50Trade maps explain why Britain wants different carriersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:27:33Industrial logistics for shipbuildingNotable Point
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:55:17British 16.5-inch guns and the Washington treatyQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:14:02Imperial scale does not remove fleet constraintsNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins32:47Why shipboard distillers could not meet Peleliu's water demandQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:54:52Eastern Fleet funding and Pacific war pressureQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:56:53Canadian oil discoveries and British fuel choicesQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:41:39A full Pelayo squadron in the Spanish-American WarQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:10:21The logistics trap in Australia's missile drone shipsQ&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...1:51:25The First Sea Lord as information managerNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!2:00Why the Royal Navy still valued 64-gun shipsChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!18:38Inflexible and the 64-gun fleets at CuddaloreChapter
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!44:48Hughes takes his damaged fleet to Bombay as the monsoon beginsNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...18:58A friendly Japan releases Indian Ocean shippingNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...1:59:09Fleet movement and joint command take monthsNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:17:12Would a shorter war preserve shipping for India's food supply?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:18:45Would cruisers grow beyond 12-inch guns?Q&A
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 327:49Build maintenance and loss margin into the air groupChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 357:43Choose propulsion for range, aviation, and politicsChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:16:51Scale habitability and services to deployment lengthChapter
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed27:16How navies reused captured cannonQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:39:50Could German warships reach African colonies in 1940?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:41:08A German oil-fired fleet and Galician supplyQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:55:41Unicorn-type carriers after the Second World WarQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier15:30Could American helium supplies support German Zeppelins?Q&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier39:36Why helium supply limited the experimental fleetNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:13:09Railway machinery made giant airships manageable ashoreChapter
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:23:45Why Akron lifted its ground handlers at Camp KearnyNotable Point
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:25:57Why airship reach depended on shore infrastructureNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions35:49Global convoys need organic air powerChapter
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions1:04:05Atlantic Conveyor's aircraft-ferry role and wartime lossChapter
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign13:40Concentrating a fleet for an overseas invasionNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built54:06Why canals and dockyards limited battleship draftQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!30:06Silver carrying rewarded Royal Navy captains and crewsNotable Point
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 86:54A floating support system for transatlantic airmailChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:19:37Akron's structure, lift, and endurance tradeoffsChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:37:14Saving helium while carrying fewer aircraft than plannedNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:39:46Could Akron recover a pound of water for every pound of fuel?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:02:32Could Akron simply fly over mountain ranges?Q&A
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:26:36Lakehurst machinery and the fatal Camp Kearny mooringChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier2:40:56West Coast scouting shows the airship's search reachChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers43:29Useful volume and simpler armament define design efficiencyNotable Point
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers53:52Hermes carries aviation infrastructure overseasNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign55:40Trading range and speed for battleship stability and protectionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:20:09Why capturing a port still requires sea liftNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:42:30Using the Panama Canal to shift a fleet between theatresNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:47:32Measuring naval strength beyond the number of shipsNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193816:46Royal Navy modernization and reserve depthNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193850:06Soviet naval resource scarcity and inherited machineryNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism34:28Capturing a whaler was easier than getting the prize homeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism48:18Port gossip and silver protection create an intelligence networkChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism52:37Why carrying silver enriched Royal Navy frigate captainsQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:39:29Valparaíso becomes a blockade trapChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:56:13How warships obtained money on distant deploymentsQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism3:25:19Why did Japan standardize around the Type 96 25 mm gun?Q&A
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation14:36Merchant conversions bring seaplanes to the BalticChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation20:49Glyndwr and Answald reveal the limits of improvised carriersChapter
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions53:03When bigger warships stop being betterQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:22:06How Scottish oil could reshape British war powerQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:34:57Why Gibraltar would trap a War Plan Red expeditionQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 655:08Infrastructure limits the Royal Navy's unconstrained battleshipNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 655:31Cruisers and overseas bases make global battle-fleet deployment possibleChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)18:34Royal Fleet Auxiliary helicopters expand task-force ASW capacityChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)52:11Falklands helicopters turned the task force into a distributed air systemChapter
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign15:04Naval mass supports strategic resource objectives ashoreChapter
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign21:54Old ships can still provide operational massNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:00:50Commerce war is measured against replacement capacityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:23:25Amphibious operations depend on local naval massChapter
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered45:51Old ships' boats may survive without a clear pedigreeQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered50:17Earlier refrigeration improves endurance more than tacticsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:36:12An Ice Age Royal Navy would seek a secure base before expansionQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle20:20Bombardments confront the Tokyo Express supply systemChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle21:30Cape Bon offers an earlier resupply ambushNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:18:19Preparation turns the battle into an American footnoteChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle1:23:17Routine bombardments reveal changing campaign momentumChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:12:56How far could Soviet battleships exceed treaty limits?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:30:14Would the Soviet Pacific Fleet redeploy to protect Arctic convoys?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:32:42Can a Soviet Pacific fleet escape Vladivostok's geography?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:39:18A Great Hero fleet consumes other Soviet prioritiesNotable Point
- HMS Ben My Chree(1908/1915): A Soaring Service with a Legacy of Fire Risk Managment24:56Coal quality links operating cost to wartime speedNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:03:31Improved oil burners create a fleet-wide refit burdenNotable Point
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...32:41How Venators could have freed the Rebellion from fixed basesNotable Point
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...48:46Farscape's command carrier fights its own missionChapter
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...1:08:37Battlestars combine carrier primacy with layered defenseChapter
- The Graf Zepplin's Proposed Teeth: The Fi 167 & JU-87C, Key Aircaft Series 1 - Aircraft 816:27Germany entered the war short of reliable aerial torpedoesChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait32:58Solomons geography and logistics point toward RabaulChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait41:44What did the Great White Fleet teach about long-range logistics?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait46:38Fleet auxiliaries reveal operational intentionsQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait48:52Japanese withdrawal exposes pilot, industrial, and convoy-defense shortagesChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait58:00Coastal shipping can relieve roads and move heavy freight efficientlyNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:21:47American bombardment raids become a repeatable systemChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:03:08American advances invert Japan's attrition planNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:11:03Destroyer supply runs reveal Japan's logistics trapChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:17:49Halsey builds two bombardment groups for Munda and Vila StanmoreChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:49:12Were Japanese supply destroyers stripped of weapons?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:07:48Bombardment damage mattered less than irreplaceable destroyer lossesNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:11:12Japan's defensive perimeter created a resource-security Catch-22Notable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:31:17Blackett Strait demonstrates quiet operational professionalismNotable Point
- Carry on Invading Britain: The Battle of Fishguard (1797)16:01Winter weather defeats the Bantry Bay expeditionNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books12:01How European navies secured shipbuilding timberQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:24:57Russian pre-dreadnoughts needed base support at seaQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books4:07:49Why better coal would not solve Germany's naval geographyQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!32:20Gun caliber, barrel pools, and fleet logisticsNotable Point
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!1:01:19Why fleet numbers conceal maintenance problemsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction27:14Which modern warship feels most like science fiction?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction4:20:30Blackett Strait: a supply run meets a cruiser forceNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:10:05Could a Yamato-class battleship pass through Suez?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:18:16Why obsolete protected cruisers became blockshipsQ&A
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution30:41Why carrier aircraft totals are difficult to compareNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:43:30An all-oil Grand Fleet would be faster and easier to crewQ&A
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 35:25Why British ships were valuable near JapanNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 352:01Breconshire's service as a fast oiler to MaltaChapter
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 354:21Why cargo liners made effective amphibious conversionsNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:23:34Russia's geography demands four separate fleetsQ&A
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers14:03Why Europa did not need fleet-carrier performanceNotable Point
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers15:45A ship packages the whole aviation base before deploymentNotable Point
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers47:48Sheltered anchorage adds resilience to the mobile baseNotable Point
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers55:06Why were so few interwar seaplane carriers built?Notable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:45:16How supply ships reflect naval cultureNotable Point
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese27:08Tsushima and the cost of an unsupported fleet deploymentNotable Point
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese39:56Yorktown and Lexington traded speed against enduranceNotable Point
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:02:32Building carrier task forces without fast battleshipsChapter
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:09:14The light-cruiser shortage exposed prewar procurement lagNotable Point
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:28:46Hull count does not equal operational availabilityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:16Reducing transport losses in UADQ&A
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign35:32Matching invasion tonnage to distant objectivesChapter
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:06:32The tradeoff in using expeditionary sea bases to reload VLSQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:00:55A rail-guided system for reloading VLS at seaQ&A
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 25:31Grain, aviation fuel, and flight-deck hazardsNotable Point
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 240:50Carrier risk must be weighed against carrier utilityChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:16:23The fleet tests concentrated and distributed carriersChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:18:10Global air threats shape armored carrier requirementsChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:49:30Useful range includes navigation, payload, and darknessChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:07:24Carrier task forces combine scouting, reach, and gunpowerChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:13:39Four aircraft families simplify a global air armNotable Point
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:04:31Common ammunition simplifies a mixed battleship fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:27:07King George V armament without the 14-inch treaty limitQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships51:53Commercial concentration creates a wartime recovery riskNotable Point
- Twelve Odd Ships58:50SMS Seeadler used sail to escape the coal networkChapter
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...38:06The carrier as a reloadable air-defence and strike hubChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:05:35Why Russian warship maintenance repeatedly suffersQ&A
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:18:32Concentrating forces after a crisisChapter
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:28:24Massing available tonnage for a priority invasionChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered11:33Why Finland could not simply buy more submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered45:22Using aircraft carriers for emergency shore powerQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:32:36Proximity fuzes and the ammunition a cruiser actually carriedQ&A
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?40:40Carrier-aircraft logistics shape helicopter availabilityNotable Point
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 127:42Exercises and the Abyssinia Crisis build the case for UnicornChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:46:49Does Atlantic Conveyor disprove concentrated aviation support?Q&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:35:59How many people support three cruiser helicopters?Q&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s3:10:19Why an escort carrier is not automatically an LPHQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:24:08Fires, coverings, and whaling routes sustained high-latitude sailing fleetsQ&A
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?1:24:29Build a realistic aviation fleet backward from missionsChapter
- Pierre Levasseur: A Designer of Note, Key Aircraft Series 1 - Aircraft 537:13PL.14 and PL.15 extend French air power from seaplane basesChapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:22:09What German coal choices reveal about prewar assumptionsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:42:25Where Haida could carry spare torpedoesQ&A
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI38:55The Kriegsmarine entered war before its fleet was readyNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI40:31Army-first funding left the Imperial German Navy without depthChapter
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:02:47Marceau becomes a floating workshopChapter
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:08:57Innovation creates a logistics burdenNotable Point
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies12:30Cartridge ammunition makes quick firing practicalChapter
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies13:43Caliber proliferation multiplies fleet burdensNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?28:17Logistics ships and refit rotation in a reserve fleetNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!32:04Why the Admiral Hipper class used tonnage inefficientlyQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:05:54Why navies build specialized support shipsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:27:21What a modern destroyer tender would look likeQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:32:59Food and living conditions in British submarinesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:45:20Converting Lexington hulls into fast supply shipsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:37:36Why British Pacific ships needed different rangeQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:41:35Overseas support for an all-diesel Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:57:17Preparing Russia's Far Eastern fleet in 1900Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:03:58Britain enters the world wars with domestic oilQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:54:35Why British medium AA guns resisted standardizationQ&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War31:30Fast tankers became indispensable amphibious shipsNotable Point
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War41:07Tight rules shaped the first major Commando raidChapter
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:15:45Why distant operations make survivability a design priorityNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence16:40Presence ships need lean, supportable equipmentNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:47:54Midway and Malta reveal different balances of air group and survivabilityQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:15:19Smaller engine-room crews and simpler refitsNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:16:46Why gas turbines could simplify machinery refitsQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:45:39A gas-turbine fleet needs a different fuel economyNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:56:28Gas turbines redirect wartime factories and skilled laborChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?51:33Frequent small visits compound naval influenceNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?58:07Why Coronel was a force-concentration failureQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:34:53River-class OPVs as modern presence squadronsChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:55:15River Batch 2 trades heavy weapons for endurance and peopleNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:12:22Presence ships need austere, off-the-shelf systemsNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:33:49Long wars expose vertical-launch replenishment limitsNotable Point
- Fairey Albacore: Oh bring back my Stringbag to me, to me - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 348:17Why spare Swordfish kept mixed squadrons flyingNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 649:21Imperial storage could turn torpedoes into dudsNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 127:26Over-water operations imposed their own equipment burdenNotable Point
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response17:08How Pearl Harbor salvage accelerated carrier repairQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:30:30Britain uses American yards for repairs, not a replacement building programQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:31:03Global station duties kept old Royal Navy ships in serviceQ&A
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response9:30How Britain planned a 22- or 23-ship capital fleetNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response23:50How many spare 15-inch guns might Vanguard have needed?Q&A
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike1:09Pearl Harbor's warning and command failuresChapter
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike9:42Distance was a fuel and replenishment problemNotable Point
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike11:16The Falklands comparison and Japan's blue-water reachNotable Point
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike27:14The target criteria: range, emotion, and ships at seaChapter
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response10:55Could Britain supply fuel for USS Arizona?Q&A
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response12:14Keeping years of naval fuel in reserveNotable Point
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response13:20Tankers waiting for British naval oil storageNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 223:37The decisive battle versus a sustained carrier warNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 244:02Formidable, Crete, and spare-parts logisticsChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 253:11Dale-class tankers as carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:00:35Wartime priorities and the fast fleet oilersNotable Point
- If not Pearl Harbour?9:19Why Panama suggested sabotage rather than a carrier strikeQ&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?31:25What about Pearl Harbor's fuel tanks and oil storage?Q&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?50:23Could Japan afford a strike on Alaska or San Francisco?Q&A
- If not Pearl Harbour?55:29The Philippines as the operational lureChapter
- If not Pearl Harbour?1:11:07Could Japan split its carriers among three provocations?Q&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 214:17Unicorn's label protected an aviation-support capabilityNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 252:36Why Unicorn belonged in the Far EastNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:02:35Stored aircraft sustained improvised naval air groupsNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:32:47Warspite complicated a Kongō pursuit at nightNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency31:07Ottoman frigates sustained the Caucasus supply routeChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency32:44Why Russian naval superiority did not immediately control the Black SeaNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response8:35Why repair geography shaped British carrier survivabilityNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 427:46Technical improvement versus fleet standardizationNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:02:36Vanguard could dominate Falklands shore targetsQ&A
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response21:51Lexington construction could have accelerated fast fleet oilersNotable Point
- Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response45:18British carrier roles joined combat doctrine to global repair logisticsChapter
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 36:38Amphibious conversions consume scarce fast fleet tankersNotable Point
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 314:30Misoa and the cancelled seizure of the AzoresNotable Point
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 318:08Misoa at Juno Beach and as a coastal-forces mother shipNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:23:51A crippled Bismarck as an industrial burdenNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?22:36Why the Caucasus campaign made the convoy importantNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?47:07From Ottoman supply convoy to Russian blockadeChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response11:02What impossible game armaments teach about logisticsNotable Point
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?1:42:31Finite magazines constrain submarines and surface shipsNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?13:56Could Russia have sent the Second Pacific Squadron before the war?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?15:42How could the Royal Navy operate in a full 1859 Pig War?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?35:59Why Malta's U-class submarines found such a productive hunting groundNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:06:01HX convoy statistics reveal a durable Atlantic supply systemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:10:44Would Italian neutrality in 1940 hurt the Allies?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:09:51SL convoy figures show both resilience and the limits of the recordChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:33:39Captured tankers were fragile prizes in the AtlanticNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:40:14Would adding Deutschland-class ships improve Operation Berlin?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:44:36The repair clock blocked an April concentration with BismarckNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?3:03:31How did Britain sustain greater capital-ship sea time?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy42:46Why Japan's coastal logistics magnified blockade pressureNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:07:17Kongo modernization traded coal security for oil performanceNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War5:33Russia's voyage helped validate Britain's global base networkNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War29:48Why Russia's paper strength could not reach the battleNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War42:07Missing flag officers overloaded Russian commandNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War48:31Oleg paired cruiser capability with a maintenance burdenNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War55:21Geography demanded several balanced Russian fleetsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War1:44:49An 18,000-mile voyage delivered an exhausted fleetChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War2:14:05Russia ignored warnings and became trapped by its coaling planNotable Point
- HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response3:55What could have drawn Britain into the American Civil War?Q&A
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response10:38The 1910 Town class as an overlooked imperial cruiserNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers17:35Range, cost, and yards make repetition plausibleNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:21:02Could Germany support its carriers with supply ships?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:23:36A German fleet defeat frees Britain and strains ItalyNotable Point
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett32:08British fuel reserves bought time for wartime supplyChapter
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett51:36Uncrewed convoy escorts still need repair and reloadingNotable Point
- Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett1:13:25Major wars depend on equipment held before fighting beginsNotable Point
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign18:23Balancing transport capacity, research, training, and fleet readinessNotable Point
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign20:19Port capacity limits where capital ships can be basedNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat8:02Reading Royal Navy Far East strategy through shipsChapter
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat13:40Why the Royal Navy's fast fleet train shrankNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat17:50Where railways meet naval historyQ&A
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 225:41Reading a Southampton-class legend of particularsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 228:53Aircraft capacity competed with wartime stowageNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore38:44Beatty argued that Far East infrastructure could not wait for warNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore55:49Sydney needs a much larger repair and support complexChapter
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:21:00An Australian repair base changes Force Z before war beginsNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:28:16Australian yards could repair ships to British standardsNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 846:20From battleship to forward repair shipChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update19:45Ottoman geography makes the obvious expansion unavailableChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare30:46Superpowers, major powers, and regional naviesQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare47:05What makes a navy globally expeditionaryQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:03:59Rail traffic sustaining wartime PortsmouthQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:24:18Naval forces in a world without nuclear weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:18:18HMS Ladybird as an afloat command and logistics shipNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:21:46Searching for a naval equivalent to ZamaQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:38:49How unpaid bills crippled the Commonwealth navyChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:42:27Non-Western powers capable of supporting capital shipsQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?38:23Why Task Force 39 had to interceptNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?41:00Surface attackers among amphibious shippingQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?50:15Why Mark 15 torpedoes were improving by late 1943Q&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:11:51Breaking off the pursuit and bringing Foote homeNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)6:32Rabaul's open approaches gave Japanese convoys room to maneuverChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)32:36Austin carried combat experience into joint education and naval logisticsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1119:23Why fleet tonnage determines whether an invasion can proceedChapter
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:54:02Vanguard used maintained fleet gun stocks, not accidental surplusQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:57:03Taking Midway was easier than sustaining it against American returnQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases5:01:41Abdiel-class speed served raids and urgent transportQ&A
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:24:09Plan Z and the limits of German rearmamentChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:39:34What Anglo-American war plans did - and did not - meanNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:07:21Could Italy fuel its enlarged battle fleet?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 103:42Corsica cannot absorb a fleet-sized repair burdenNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 101:13:37Repair capacity is a constraint on a global fleetNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 101:44:56Defensive minefields still need routes for friendly commerceNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 102:45:14Concentrating ships for blockade and invasionNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 103:13:35Naval infrastructure needs both large and distributed dry docksNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series19:40The modern improvement for an age-of-sail crewQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series28:48Aegis is not a free transfer of capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:59:24Containerized missiles need stability, power, and practiceQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:34:06Missile stockpiles must cover repeated reloadsQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:04:04A hospital ship built around practical medical capacityQ&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...32:00An Allied Norway changes Scandinavian strategyChapter
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:12:16Mediterranean sea control makes North Africa a logistics warChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 717:14Gun calibre, logistics and turret weightNotable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...43:51Could Britain buy merchant ships from neutral Sweden?Q&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...3:00:18Mining the Kiel Canal from Norwegian basesNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)0:23The centuries-long supply chain behind a sailing fleetChapter
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)32:07HMS Pickle reveals the fleet's reconnaissance burdenNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)50:01Trafalgar's order of battle is a strategic snapshotChapter
- Thoughts on Problems for Future of Strategy from a Naval Historian4:22The three constraints that shape strategyChapter
- Thoughts on Problems for Future of Strategy from a Naval Historian6:31Additive manufacture could change the logistics targetNotable Point
- Thoughts on Problems for Future of Strategy from a Naval Historian49:11Distributed forces still depend on critical nodesNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 952:58Why mixed gun batteries burden naval logisticsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 92:03:19Damaged ships need ports able to repair themNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 92:56:04Why invasion planning needs tonnage as well as capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series27:35Why remote task-force command caused friction in the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:06:12Why container ships are awkward naval auxiliariesQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:31:12How small supply delays become major shipyard delaysQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:57:58Why 24-inch torpedoes fell out of favourQ&A
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 621:47The all-purpose cruiser filled its own hullNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)56:55Wartime fuel oil and naval readinessNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 851:26Choosing a carrier close-in weapon is a system decisionQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:26:04Hammocks as naval beddingQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:56:28Why Japan did not plan to invade AustraliaQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:05:21A British Yamato fleet would frighten enemies and strain BritainQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres47:43Fairmile B improvised armament and submarine huntingChapter
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian4:13A five-part test for fictional capital shipsChapter
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian26:09A Chilean dreadnought designed to be supportableNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian31:21Executor class: intimidating but strategically wastefulChapter
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:13:39Daedalus class as a practical hybrid capital shipNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:31:46Destiny and the logistics of deep explorationNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre9:43Why a larger torpedo boat was hard to justifyQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre18:36How coastal craft reached distant theatresQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:25:20Fairmile B scale and the logistics of crew modificationsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:13:08Close-range combat encouraged unofficial armamentNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 911:37Protection, broadside guns, and sail enduranceNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 919:23Northampton's distributed engine supply chainNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 928:40Australia Station in an imperial defence networkNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 74:53Crew capacity before expanding the submarine forceNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:33:28Designing for cruising range and future upgradesNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!17:04What the Second Pacific Squadron could teach about logisticsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:13:07Why Canada is a plausible carrier questionQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:30:43Why supertankers support a fleet but do not become oneQ&A
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:34:00World War II was a logistics and attrition warChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:11:36Why routine escort presence matteredNotable Point
- Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)21:00Lepidus and the logistical skill the triumvirate lostNotable Point
- Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)31:41Blockade, disease, and the people who powered the fleetChapter
- Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)53:43Building fleets: workforce, hulls, and bronze ramsChapter
- Fleets of the Battle of Actium(31BC)1:09:20Counting Actium's warships, transports, and survivorsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 61:12:06Concentrating tonnage for a naval invasionNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 61:37:51Crew pools determine which ships are readyNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!30:36Why a Black Sea dry-dock strike matteredQ&A
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?3:43Massawa had facilities but not the stores to sustain themChapter
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?7:46Italian East Africa's logistics were only an inch deepNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?32:02Mechanical failure consumed ships before combat couldChapter
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?41:05The flotilla's mission was to squeeze the Suez supply routeChapter
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?45:14An overland link might have sustained the Red Sea positionNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?51:03Forward basing gave reach but created a glass jawNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?59:28Italy paid the larger opportunity cost for the deploymentChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound10:41A Victorian flagship carried command, logistics, and informal staff workChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound22:15How should a warship divide space among weapons, command, and people?Notable Point
- Scharnhorst Class: The Quality of the Kaiserliche Marine - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 69:30Stores, repair, and resilience abroadNotable Point
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 429:11Leaving room for larger successor aircraftChapter
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 433:17Carrier design as command, sustainment, and deck managementNotable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 39:43From armoured cruiser to capital shipNotable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 323:12The cost of a heavily armed German battlecruiserChapter
- Malta Class: Once more the Royal Navy building for the After War? - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 235:31Malta and the timetable for invading JapanNotable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences14:45Why Trincomalee mattered to Dutch ocean tradeChapter
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:10:11Britain sends enough troops to keep CeylonNotable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences1:35:19The strategic cost of underfunded colonial defenceChapter
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits9:03British sea power, reach, and logisticsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 51:19:37Building 128 light cruisers for global port defenseChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built12:13Gathering Surrey oak before it reached the dockyardsNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built16:27Moving naval guns from Woolwich to ChathamQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built31:30The St Lawrence as a War of 1812 naval corridorQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built53:14Test batches, service guns, and spare barrelsQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built57:11North American timber for War of 1812 shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:17:49The fire risk inside a timber dockyardNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:19:52Why Britain did not season its naval timber in North AfricaQ&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?58:29How worldwide operations improved torpedo testingNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:16:22Why Pearl Harbor's fuel stores survivedQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:03:50Oil and industrial capacity as campaign objectivesChapter
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!38:02Captured provisions under blockadeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!39:08What sailing-ship sails were made fromQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!50:51What limits the size of a supercarrierQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:02:30Why the Second Pacific Squadron could not use the Arctic routeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:54:16Simonstown as an Indian Ocean logistics hubQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 930:03Why a French squadron needs more than one shipNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 818:40Why six-inch cruisers could overwhelm eight-inch rivalsNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough36:31The procurement problem of the fourth rateNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 720:19Standardised hulls and the logistics warNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 727:00An attrition fleet built to fight before it is lostNotable Point
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)3:51Mobile Bay as blockade and logistics warfareNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 517:02What the Germaniawerft proposal offeredNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 411:13Four main-battery calibres for ten battleshipsChapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 436:18Mixed diesel and steam drive multiplies failure pathsChapter
- Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory37:33Army priority also constrained repair and recoveryChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 32:15Oil, territory, and global naval reachChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 32:15:46Reinforcing a distant fleet after attritionNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...45:23South Africa and the neglected Cape sea routeNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?36:03Ammunition endurance is part of armament choiceNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?40:42Firepower is a whole-ship trade-offChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?42:32Why ancient galleys faced a different endurance problemNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:01:02Why incomplete warships are difficult to finish laterQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:51Why ships of the line were rare on the American west coastQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:18:38When weather rivals the enemy at seaQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:25:28Preparing the British Pacific Fleet's Sakishima strikesChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:42:46Baltic naval stores as a British strategic vulnerabilityQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:11:06Why the Kido Butai did not bring every carrier to Pearl HarborQ&A
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock23:46Von der Tann's speed, armour, and machineryNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:26:22Mackensen and a more balanced German battlecruiserNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:27:39Infrastructure behind the battlecruiser raceNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 227:23Machinery, range, and a flagship-sized staffNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 236:39Long-range gunnery needed a supply systemNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:12:44Medway and the price of naval unreadinessNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy15:10Keeping battleships needs a support systemQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy53:16HMS Unicorn as a force multiplier for carrier aviationNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:12:03Warehouses and fuel stocks are naval combat powerNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:20:53How naval guns are renewed through reliningQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:26:04Existing fuel reserves let the Royal Navy change propulsion slowlyQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:45:20Obsolete 13.5-inch shells survived for decades in storageQ&A
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail23:33How political rivalry disrupted the AdmiraltyChapter
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail30:30Why Caribbean trade outweighed the Thirteen ColoniesNotable Point
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail44:00Gibraltar shows why sea control must be usedNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 152:35Why British and American battleships solved different problemsNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:26:24Spithead: a fleet-wide demand for fair conditionsChapter
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail1:55:34How the Nore's blockade and supply crisis hastened its collapseNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:06:14What was the purser's pound?Q&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:07:55Why abolish the purser's allowance for spoilage?Q&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:10:02What did a purser do aboard a sailing warship?Q&A
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:26:21How sailing warships handled livestock before actionQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?19:19Common fuel versus fleet reconstructionQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?45:52Why a navalised Typhoon must justify its hangar spaceQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?47:10A larger canal and British frigate access in the War of 1812Q&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:19:26Operation White and the cost of inadequate range marginNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:59:31The obstacles to British escort orders in American yardsQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years3:03Why one-dimensional forces become predictableNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years33:39Carrier survivability and Singapore's repair roleNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years57:49Sea Lion's Channel crossing and German surface weaknessChapter
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:02:41The Home Guard and the cost of sustaining an invasionNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?31:01Autoloaders trade manpower for ammunition enduranceNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?1:00:53Shell handling versus VLS replenishment at seaNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:29:01HMS Unicorn added aviation support before the warNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:08:58Night range and repairability kept the Swordfish usefulNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:42:22Dunkirk's small boats worked within a much larger lift systemChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:48:52Ramsay organized Dunkirk as a navigation systemNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:50:41Why Dunkirk evacuees crowded destroyer decksNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:57:43Industrial infrastructure limited Axis war plansChapter
- Theodore Roosevelt: Theory in Action - A Naval Theorist who became President!31:35British alignment and German coal limitsNotable Point
- Theodore Roosevelt: Theory in Action - A Naval Theorist who became President!34:36The simple theory: build and train the right fleetNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:23:06Magazine depth sets the practical limitChapter
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:10:41The final charge confirms the squadron limitChapter
- The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...35:24Building the economy before expanding the fleetChapter
- The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...54:00Fleet composition and the value of a cruiser reserveNotable Point
- The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...1:33:46Strategic geography guides the next campaign objectiveNotable Point
- The Imperium of Man: at SOME POINT I will figure this game out...2:06:39Budget-limited fleet expansion and local defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:35:59Small warships could be shipped as construction kitsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:17:04Energy security depends on ships, ports, and sea lanesNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued4:00:30Mobile Naval Air Bases supported the Fleet Air Arm ashoreQ&A
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)46:31Recovering after a failed attackNotable Point
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)49:40Why trained crews can matter more than hullsNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)1:08:02Rotation and hospitals limited Caribbean disease lossesQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:09:58Scapa Flow consumed coal because the Grand Fleet kept movingQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:27:55British Pacific strategy ran south to northQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:36:51More galleys could ease the Armada's fireship crisisQ&A
- How to Build A Navy3:26Defensive reasons to maintain a navyNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy5:19Fleets can begin as logistics systemsNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy12:06Sustainment outlasts acquisitionChapter
- How to Build A Navy13:27Retaining sailors and specialistsNotable Point
- How to Build A Navy20:57Coal deliveries can become diplomatic leverageNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:06:03Why a third Pearl Harbor strike might matterQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:07:07A surviving Force Z could threaten Japan's advance on SingaporeQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:58:41Japanese planning did not expect a long shipping warQ&A
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 82:41Speed, fuel, and an unusually wide war careerNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda18:34What if Goeben and Breslau had joined the Adriatic fleet?Notable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response16:40Why postwar supercarriers strain Panama Canal limitsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)2:26When older machinery improved global supportNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)27:52Why the most powerful destroyer may be the wrong shipNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)30:48España: a dreadnought sized for Spanish limitsChapter
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response4:59Nuclear escorts for carrier surge speedNotable Point
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response16:46Independent presence missions for nuclear cruisersNotable Point
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response18:12Why guns regain value in a prolonged warNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 710:20Why Pacific repairs were harder for British carriersNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 753:19A shipboard fire tests the aircraft-replacement systemNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:01:22Shipboard workshops convert a Martlet's wingsNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!32:57Why early missile ships kept their gunsQ&A
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 614:38Virginia's destructive attack and ammunition limitNotable Point
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 615:23Why Virginia was lost when Norfolk fellNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response1:23Nuclear escorts and carrier surge operationsQ&A
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response17:59Nuclear escort trade-offs in a carrier groupQ&A
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway9:28Separate available naval strength from the fleet at MidwayNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway31:10Japan's carrier force had too few escortsChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:04:51Protecting oilers is part of protecting the fleetNotable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response21:13Could destroyers replenish torpedoes and depth charges at sea?Q&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney35:15The hidden infrastructure behind submarine support at Cockatoo IslandChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney39:30Why an island dockyard could be an advantageQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney54:01Fast fleet oilers as the answer to lost basesQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:20:10The strategic cost of losing RMS Queen MaryQ&A
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 410:56Armor placement and the Pacific strike roleChapter
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 426:02A seven-hour turnaround after Pearl HarborNotable Point
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 439:42Seabee repairs before GuadalcanalNotable Point
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response0:41Italian support for Ottoman campaignsQ&A
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?33:21Heavy-gun ammunition and replenishment at seaNotable Point
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?34:29Which navies might retain big-gun ships?Chapter
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response28:06Keeping early missile systems maintainable at seaQ&A
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole3:45Why submarines still depend on shore supportNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole9:22The Franco-Prussian War and the limits of blockadeChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole29:31Russo-Japanese War: logistics and battle fleets prevailChapter
- Slava Class: Comment Response2:37Hood's modernisation and Moskva's maintenance failureQ&A
- Slava Class: Comment Response49:40Maintenance, industry, and bureaucracy behind combat powerNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 351:49Warspite and the outmatched Eastern FleetChapter
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 358:42A 160,000-mile service cycle sends Warspite back to Force HNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 243:08Atlantic convoy deterrence and Operation TorchChapter
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 21:01:24Ranger resupply, casualty care, and a deliberately listed hullChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses8:01Project 21 as a more attainable Soviet battlefleetChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses33:40Project 69 and the logistics behind a big-gun fleetNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses34:39Engineering perfection versus fleet-wide standardisationNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response22:35How a Dreadnought might have survived for preservationQ&A
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet55:30Warrant officers keep enormous starships runningChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:20:14Torpedo scale creates a resupply problemNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response6:13Why US cruisers relied on speed, screens, and fleet supportNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?46:04Fleet generation before French institutional attritionNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:04:15Frigates rescue ships inside the battle lineNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)3:09:53The captured ships' later service and prize valueNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)3:17:41How many new ships could Britain have bought for the prize money?Q&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon43:37The Goeben chase combines doctrine, speed, and coal qualityNotable Point
- How do Navies Learn from War18:23The Russian voyage as a logistics lessonNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat22:32Why an Italian alliance still depends on British suppliesQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat52:43Canadian oil could accelerate Royal Navy oil firingQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:29:13Why Nelson should standardize her dual-purpose batteryQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:08:12Why British warship machinery prioritized maintainabilityQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:14:15How a tender differs from a repair shipQ&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:23:15Where could Operation Sea Lion have landed?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:29:32Would North Norfolk's open beaches have made a good invasion site?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:45:15How could a Halifax-based battleship escort convoys across the Atlantic?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?2:47:50Operation Berlin depended on tankers, ammunition economy, and U-boat cooperationNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:20:00Rheinübung began with a strained command relationship and an avoidable fuel problemChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?3:52:00Damage, fuel, and repair capacity drove Bismarck toward FranceChapter
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 233:30Russian numbers versus geography and logisticsNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...57:40Cutting reinforcement routes while building the fleet economyChapter
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...1:47:41Balancing an advance against repair and counterattackChapter
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...2:04:27Inflicting attrition before an orderly withdrawalNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...2:34:50When fleet expansion outruns the campaign economyChapter
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:01:03Dominion battlecruisers, Japanese concerns, and logistical costsQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:27:08Why access to Galician oil did not create an oil-fired German fleetQ&A
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...1:19:46Global turbine supply creates hidden wartime dependenciesNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 234:04Sea logistics and the dictatorship of geographyChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 22:35:16Why replenishment under air attack is so dangerousNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett44:19Canals connected inland landing-craft yards to the seaNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:07:07War Plan Orange: bases and secure communicationsChapter
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:10:57The Royal Road's stepwise Pacific advanceNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett2:25:14Rozhestvensky waits at Cam Ranh BayChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:03:56King George V: political calibre choice and complex turretsNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:14:00Did smaller 14-inch shells simplify Royal Navy logistics?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:17:13Could American 14-inch ammunition support the King George V class?Q&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done17:46What a modernised Bismarck would demandNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done57:56Caracciolo speed, oil fuel, and operating rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:32:25War Plan Orange's Central Pacific campaign studiesChapter
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:33:55The exposed supply line in War Plan Orange's rapid advanceNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:34:37Why War Plan Orange made secure bases a condition of advancingNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:37:54Convoy protection for War Plan Orange's supply shipsQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:50:32The Palau raids as a blow to Japanese sustainmentChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)15:29Why trolley launch gear is harder at seaNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)36:47Sortie generation as Britain’s carrier advantageNotable Point
- Imperial Fleet Review: An Introduction (Warhammer40k)3:40The maintenance problem inside a mixed-calibre turretNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)30:10A fleet refusal creates the Ezo RepublicNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)2:29:08Fleet imbalance and the Hokkaido landingsChapter
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation52:32Carrier readiness depends on spare-parts depthNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 311:28G3 speed, range, and uncertain performance marginsNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 158:33Why sixteen guns exposed an escort shortageNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 11:17:53An unfinished carrier and a counterfactual Norway roleNotable Point
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 1013:17Range and speed for an overseas flagshipNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:56:20Armoured carriers as a logistics decisionNotable Point
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)8:46Why small classes made readiness difficultNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20231:16:14A Roman landing exposes Carthage's naval mobility gapChapter
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20232:18:34Why Syracuse needs a fleet to project powerChapter
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20233:29:42Embarkation turns Sicily into a springboard for RomeChapter
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation46:15Resources alone cannot remove Japan's industrial geographyQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation1:13:04Better rope lets the Royal Navy rig for smaller crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation1:43:42Why a combined super-tanker is a damage-control riskQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation2:37:23Small gunboats trade reach for local utilityQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:33:16At-sea reloading is VLS's fleet-level constraintNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:44:39Container modules could give merchant ships point defenceQ&A
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198033:20Why heavy reinforcement still has to cross by seaChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198050:11NATO's northern command and reinforcement problemChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:15:31What Soviet replenishment reveals about maritime ambitionNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:58:11NATO's conventional advantage and Soviet industrial resilienceChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)59:07Why the GIUK Gap remains strategically importantChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:54:51Why tankers and ammunition ships matter mostNotable Point
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas29:10COGAG's performance comes with a logistics burdenNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:16:36Mixed-calibre armament creates a logistics burdenNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)27:07Standardised armament and cruiser numbersNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)1:00:30Panama Canal control and American industrial mobilisationQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus33:29Could Esquimalt have docked Ark Royal in 1941?Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:01:24The strategic range inside a Mahan collectionNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:01:57Why the Malaya Division favoured small fast craftQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:07:03What distinguishes a naval tankerQ&A
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History14:26Naval logistics as an aviation advantageNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:03:24A scout-carrier fleet changes HMS Unicorn's support roleNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:13:53Scout carriers for reconnaissance and raider huntingChapter
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 718:06From anti-Spanish procurement to 31 years of serviceChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 768:12Why naval logistics changes aircraft procurementNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7615:32Why British aircraft used French enginesQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7629:05Did RFC accounting ignore spare parts?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7635:21Would Dominion air forces inherit better support?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7650:18Why aircraft basing limits the idea that the air is oneNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7653:40Emergency aircraft spares cross the Channel by destroyerNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7654:42Information is potential until a force can actNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7657:34The Sea Is One case for naval air basesChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:39:27Could scout carriers share County-class machinery?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:35:12Canadian aircraft still need shipping to reach the fleetQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:20:21North African supply losses could release forces before Japan's entryNotable Point
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent42:42Why early U.S. naval growth favoured battleshipsChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 8(March 2023)28:34Why a blockade should not close every British trade routeNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat8:54Why finishing Seydlitz would not solve German shortagesQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:48:14Merchant shipping built around logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:51:06Designing an SSBN tender from its missionQ&A
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 58:49Why the Ottoman Empire needed both sea and land powerNotable Point
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 511:20A reserve fleet needs crews and dockyardsNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 411:33The difficult delivery voyage to MelbourneChapter
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 413:38A fatal mine exercise and failed rescue at CreswickChapter
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 414:36From Victorian flagship to stationary support shipChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?1:30German fuel dependence before the diesel-fleet questionChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?4:29Why diesel does not solve the fuel problem by itselfNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?30:26How more endurance could reshape NarvikNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?55:24Overseas bases and a fleet better prepared for the PacificNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?1:06:41A diesel fleet concentrates a strategic vulnerabilityChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion31:35Destroyer speed traded against a radically larger radiusChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:24:27Diesel eases one fuel problem without ending German constraintsNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:45:09Diesel endurance changes Narvik and Germany's opening deploymentsNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:50:33How Britain would support a global anti-raider campaignQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:58:04Could German refining sustain the diesel fleet?Q&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:42:17Why losing oilers can wreck a Pacific campaignNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition30:21Boiler layout made steam a shipwide systemNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition40:22Coal stations made global steam power possibleChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition41:23Why the Royal Navy let coaling at sea atrophyQ&A
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition43:11Coal stations as strategic choke pointsNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword22:33The long prelude to war in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword35:49Building resilient imperial basesQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:08:02HMS Unicorn as a forward aviation-support shipNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:10:26How Unicorn shaped the light fleet carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:40:29Victualling the Baltic fleet under global strainNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition32:26Why the Western Squadron still failed in 1758Notable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition33:15A powerful harbour with a supply problemNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition40:47Hawke keeps the blockade supplied at seaNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition47:23Brest’s fortifications outpaced its transport linksNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:32:11Plymouth as the blockade’s supporting baseNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:37:15Choosing a dockyard west of PortsmouthNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:09:22La Hogue turns retreat into destructionChapter
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:10:55How months of blockade improved health and fighting practiceNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:14:26French manpower and logistics in 1759Notable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:16:33Q&A: Why large-scale replenishment at sea lapsedQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:20:27Hawke returns after the November galeNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:21:52A victualler brings Hawke the decisive warningNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition4:00:33Brest and the Western Squadron’s strategic legacyChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron9:35A blockade drives new naval logisticsNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron14:45Brest's weakness: dependence on coastal supplyNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron17:53Grand strategy without the infrastructure behind itNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron26:41Anson's larger cruising squadronChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron36:06Plymouth becomes the blockade's support baseNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron39:35Why fourth rates could protect British supply convoysNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron55:49La Hogue: pursuit turned damage into destructionChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:18:21Repairs and a warning carried Finisterre's effects to the CaribbeanNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:28:30Hawke's sustained blockade systemNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:54:47Why the Western Squadron remained a strategic barrierNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover8:56Why a navy would choose nuclear propulsionChapter
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover13:10People, logistics, and protection costsNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover16:13Why nuclear merchant ships remain rareNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover32:59Nuclear cruisers and fast task groupsChapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:59:56A weapon must be maintainable in warNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:45:56Redeploying frigates after a peace agreementNotable Point
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...43:25Building and sustaining the Song navyChapter
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...45:02Wood seasoning and the economics of fleet replacementNotable Point
- Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...48:48Timber stockpiles, hull life, and fleet sizeNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:08:48Global logistics worked against Britain's 24.5-inch torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:50:47At Yamen the Song fleet became a floating fortressChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?43:44Goeben's pursuit turns on coal, speed, and force weightNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?54:21Which British ships get the new shells first?Notable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century52:15How coastal convoy geography and shipbuilding shaped the submarine contestNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:39:31Pacific submarines: offensive defense depends on logisticsChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:42:13One submarine's passage through three Axis naviesTranscript Excerpt
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century2:05:12HMS Conqueror, Belgrano, and the cost of revealing a submarineNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?26:20A range figure only makes sense at a stated speedNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:39:05The rotation and intelligence behind the Brest blockadeNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 237:03Transport policy that strained the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 258:09A provisioning squadron mistaken for an invasion forceNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles: Battle of the Rice Boats(1776), 1 of 21:08:21Rice for Boston and the loss of GeorgiaNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you39:48Standardized twin turrets simplify Royal Navy supportChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)4:16Could lake naval warfare make a useful subject?Q&A
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)24:52Two river battles shaped by logisticsChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)53:00Georgia rice as a solution to Boston’s supply crisisChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)1:09:36Why regular soldiers accompanied a food-loading missionQ&A
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)1:16:50Silence, surprise, or merchants willing to sellNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)1:28:11Rice secured too late to help BostonNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)1:33:45Dorchester Heights turned a maritime lifeline into a trapChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:13:25An improvised fleet with a communication problemNotable Point
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:44:15How small defeats forced naval reformChapter
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!27:45Duke of Wellington’s rushed conversion created structural riskNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!49:14A French steam conversion reversed for troopship spaceNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!51:29Steam changed more than propulsionNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:15:51Why the sail-to-steam transition was harder than it looksChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:43:40Testing Bismarck's speed, range, and canal limitsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)42:57Trade routes as the foundation of fleet expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:27:08Supplying Midway and using its patrol radiusQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:11:08Vulnerable coalition sea routes and a possible Italian defectionNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response15:23Oil firing, Welsh coal, and fleet infrastructureQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response30:49Dominion dreadnoughts as deployable Royal Navy strengthQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response33:21How Dominion capital ships could fund shared naval infrastructureNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:02:16When oil and small-tube boilers became credible fleet choicesQ&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood42:28Pacific force allocation and invasion realityNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood46:54Kinkaid, Hosogaya, and the tyranny of distanceNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:07:02The Alaskan supply-chain bottleneckNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:20:43Kinkaid's methodical Aleutian advanceNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood32:03Why tankers also need escort shipsQ&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:04:16Britain's three-pronged campaign in 1814Chapter
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:23:53Aleutian supply lines and the unfinished Alaska HighwayNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:28:58Could the Aleutians become an invasion route to Japan?Q&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:30:23Evacuating Kiska through the American blockadeNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:39:39Would 6,300 improved Zeros change the Pacific War?Q&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:47:40Could a telephone cable explain Kiska's radio silence?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)13:33Trade stations and maritime revenueNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:54Bengal famine and wartime shipping limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...41:50Standardized carriers strengthen the postwar fleetQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...52:05Dry-dock length constrains carrier supportQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...55:11Shipboard space caps a command staffNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:12:36Carrier survivability reflects repair geographyNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:18:48Extending Malta-class carrier rangeQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:43:15Why Mediterranean control enabled the Far EastQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:25:15A space navy must carry its support systemQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response15:43HMS Unicorn as a forward aviation support shipNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response17:47Carrier storage versus a broken spare-parts pipelineNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response21:15Carrier endurance depends on operating geographyNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response50:38Why a battle fleet still needs island basesQ&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:46:41Would Queen Elizabeth Maximus fit through Panama?Q&A
- Blockade!!25:16Sustaining a blockade at seaChapter
- Blockade!!27:05Local purchasing sustains the blockading fleetNotable Point
- Blockade!!29:30Toulon's inshore squadron and third-rate riskNotable Point
- Blockade!!48:38A blockaded fleet drains its own naval baseNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)1:46:52Fleet upkeep, trade income, and IndiamenNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak5:12Refrigeration, fresh vegetables, and health at seaQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:22:18Cross-India railways versus maritime supplyQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?28:47Pilot pipelines and maintainability shape carrier enduranceNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:06:47Trade intelligence makes distant blockade practicalChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:29:33Retaking Hong Kong ties carriers to amphibious logisticsChapter
- Ship Design3:05Rope accounts and missing practical knowledgeNotable Point
- Ship Design32:35Timber supply and the wooden-ship industrial baseNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:23:17Japanese attrition doctrine meets operating limitsChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:30:30Could the Royal Navy fuel a Pacific fleet?Q&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:37:52Blockade, oil, and Anglo-American pressureNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:46:55How much oil security did Japan have in 1939?Q&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:56:23Why the RAF has little early reachQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:57:42Wartime shipbuilding widens the carrier gapChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:22:22The race to Singapore is a carrier gambleNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:50:40Canada's role in the Pacific warQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:22:35Japan's threat to the Philippines in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:54:49Why logistics commonality is not always a quick fixQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:57:12Why successful logistics work is easily overlookedNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class17:31Insect and Fly class river support modelNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:08:09HNLMS Soemba's guns for Operation OverlordNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)6:21Rope quality control and naval bureaucracyNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)14:15Offcuts, tolerated corruption, and dockyard economicsNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)34:01Seasonal rivers, carts, and timber bargesQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)54:49Captured timber and hulk valueQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)1:13:27Lumber convoys as strategic prizesQ&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII58:29Singapore evacuation and Far East readinessNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:13:49Far East plans met the Royal Navy of 1941Notable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response32:07Could the Imperial Japanese Navy reach the Caribbean?Q&A
- USS Wichita: Comment Response47:26Exeter work-up and crew readinessNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response51:15PT-109's improvised 37 mm gunNotable Point
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?35:07Six Lexington hulls become a logistics advantageNotable Point
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?37:51Britain turns Admirals into carriers and keeps G3 logicChapter
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?1:03:40Pacific carrier teams require fast oilers and heavy escortsChapter
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia6:07Port Jackson and the fragile supply lineNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia28:25HMS Supply as the colony's lifelineNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia45:38Coal-built storeships and a staggered resupply planNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites27:21An Imperial Federation as one integrated navyQ&A
- 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 Fvourites2:07:36Fuel stockpiles, Canada, and Atlantic tanker riskQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:16:54Why bombing Royal Navy fuel storage was difficultQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:44:08A Czech navy built around KaliningradQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts12:44Empire logistics and American isolation costsQ&A
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response17:43Commandant Teste as a mobile naval air baseNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)27:11Naval stores and Norfolk Island timberNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)37:23Eleven ships and a self-supporting convoyChapter
- 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)1:39:30Borrowdale carries stores out and a stricken crew homeNotable Point
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)2:15:42Why the Navy took over convict provisioningNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response32:17Commerce raiding against France runs into British flags, bases, and coalNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century4:00Oak timelines behind ships of the lineChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century8:31Forests as strategic naval resourcesNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century10:20Naval timber control and dockyard enforcementNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century16:08HMS Thunderer at the scale of 3,400 oaksNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century17:54Seasoning timber and managing dockyard fire riskNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century20:43Timber stockpiles and generational planningChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:17:31The three-decker tradeoffs of a second rateNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:30:46HMS Victory and the gun-supply bottleneckNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:38:55Six years of timber in reserveNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History37:45How an Allied Norway reshapes Germany's northern warNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:39:13How warships carry clothing for changing climatesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6549:19Gun standardization still has legacy limitsQ&A
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines44:19Boilers, coal, and propulsion infrastructureChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam11:31Mining demand, boilers, and manpower pressureChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam21:59Charlotte Dundas and steamboat viabilityChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam26:51Savannah, Great Western, and the liner transitionChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class11:07Naval missiles need shipboard design workQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class16:42Surface-raider counters depend on basesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class28:05Tankers could have changed Pearl Harbor dispersalNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class39:52Long-range patrol aircraft still need a base networkQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:00:40Kynda served as testbed and fleet schoolhouseNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:42German liner landings need logistics planningQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions18:22Steam and sail overlapped for reliabilityQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:07:31Hunt and Flower escorts show yard tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:40:35Pacific bases can mask auxiliary gapsQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?28:02The liner fleet as a Channel landing optionNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?47:32Strategic surprise versus amphibious command riskNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?54:10A Channel battle of annihilationNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine0:44German heavy cruisers tied down larger forcesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine9:36Warship fuel and drinking-water systems resist mistakesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine18:34Raider support plans still needed practical logisticsQ&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?41:34Why Germany wants Britain outside the warNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?47:31A liner fleet amphibious bypassNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:23:09The convoy turns naval defeat into national defeatNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?2:21:30The troop convoy also destroys Germany's merchant fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain4:01Naval tenders lack a good overview bookQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain11:05Iron Duke as a hospital shipQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain13:34Large port upgrades depend on money and state capacityQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain36:47Poland needs escorts and people more than a lone battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain47:28Pacific invasion logistics could stage forward or sail directQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain59:25Bengal famine logistics run through ships and railwaysNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain2:02:46Soviet naval strategy joined nuclear missions to a long conventional warChapter
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:08:11Hood needed a global network of longer dry docksQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:55:50A time-shifted battleship still depends on its industrial baseQ&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect19:32Why naval readiness resists a fixed timetableNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect1:09:59Coal, speed, and repair limited von SpeeNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late33:17Hovercraft as a rough-terrain logistics shortcutNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind17:12Gunboats carry mobile fire support toward Kut and BaghdadChapter
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind37:19HMS Tarantula becomes a support ship and fleet flagshipNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers9:35Armoured corvettes and Russia's cruiser problemChapter
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...37:36Huge dry docks enable fast capital-ship choicesQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...52:54Chinese submarines would stress Japan's coastal controlQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:01:01A Scottish sea canal could outweigh its invasion riskQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:05:18Royal Navy priorities with a bigger prewar budgetQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:38:11A naval New Deal would prioritize docks, railways, and canalsQ&A
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed15:24Nuclear escorts made high-speed carrier redeployment credibleChapter
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed1:04:07Escort crews provided a reserve of nuclear expertiseNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers24:58Why ships make diplomatic presence comparatively easyQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers51:42Precision strikes do not remove the ammunition problemNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers52:43Too many gun calibers for a global warNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:45:06Why early steam cruisers still carried sailsQ&A
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...35:19Horne commemorates the staff work behind a wartime navyNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...56:22A nuclear sister ship isolates the logistics tradeoffNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...1:02:04One nuclear escort complicates enemy timingNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...1:04:01A nuclear task group trades logistics for global mobilityChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen47:47Dale's collision tested allied repair capacityNotable Point
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction15:33Lepanto exposes a Venetian logistics failureChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction20:11Venice pays Hungary to hold the Dalmatian frontierNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-199156:30Big-ship support depended on Baltic and Black Sea yardsQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:14:32Five-Year Plans made fleet expansion an industrial problemChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:34:08Arctic convoy protection exposed the Northern Fleet's infrastructure gapChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:42:05Why did the Soviet Navy appear cautious about overseas bases?Q&A
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?41:22John Penn and the rise of screw propulsionChapter
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?46:13Moving coal and feeding Warrior's boilersNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:31:13Bermuda floating dock and global supportNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:34:17Hulk service and survival through reuseNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?49:34Geography and logistics limit naval deterrenceNotable Point
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...12:50Nuclear endurance measured in years, not nautical milesNotable Point
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...35:22Sea Orbit's route reveals what nuclear power does and does not solveChapter
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...42:44The case for one nuclear escort per nuclear carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat33:32How long a modern warship could operate in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat2:01:56How an extended Pacific war would redirect Atlantic escortsQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat2:44:48Okinawa and Operation Iceberg planningChapter
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:11:43When Allied warships replenished one another at seaQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:16:28Falklands carriers kept clear of San CarlosQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?14:29Surface raiders and submarine dilemmasNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?17:51Why bombers do not provide a cheap answer to a raiderNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?19:50Friendly neutrals and supplies for a long warNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars0:34Colonization begins with routes and supportChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars3:31A distant ship needs trades as well as specialistsNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars8:24Sail-and-steam redundancy explains shipboard resilienceNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars13:57Mars traffic needs specialized transport legsChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars16:02Gravity-assist routes resemble age-of-sail navigationNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars45:40Lunar and Martian-orbit hubs divide the transport systemChapter
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars56:34Support ports turn damage into a recoverable casualtyNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars58:31A distant casualty becomes a command crisisNotable Point
- Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars1:00:35A Mars conveyor needs fleet-scale reservesNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.3:43Food, morale, and specialist skills on long voyagesNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.10:55Colonization needs larger ships and techniciansChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.15:55Why loose supply caches fail between planetsQ&A
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.25:25A Martian-moon network before the surface colonyNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.45:33How an asteroid mine becomes a logistics hubQ&A
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:05:25Portuguese factories and economic empireChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:15:38British ports, public pressure, and the ratchet of empireNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:25:09Heavy machinery makes colonization an industrial projectChapter
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:38:19Why lunar industry matters more than the first Mars landingQ&A
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:43:57India's missing railway and wartime survivabilityNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:56:15Why simple spare parts can need complex supply chainsNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.2:26:15Water recycling still needs practical logisticiansNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...6:38Paddle battleship: icebreaking, manoeuvre, and repairNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...16:21Protecting the command successor and the tankersNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...29:37Environmental pressure and neglected naval force multipliersNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...38:44When hardtack likely left Royal Navy rationsQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?19:07Capital ships and carriers join the common-gun fleetChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?46:06A common calibre makes wartime supply more resilientChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:02:25Common ammunition still needs mount engineeringNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:19:23Commonwealth yards do not eliminate machinery bottlenecksNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:50:23Magazine space limits calibre substitutionQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:09:12Removed destroyer mounts could return on new shipsQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:29:12Why not adopt the US Navy 5-inch/38?Q&A
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style53:43AK-630 trials expose the cost of rapid close-in fireNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy49:05Kynda's blue-water raider rationaleChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy52:53Avoiding false assumptions about an opponentNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy54:37Atlantic reinforcement after the opening daysNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers56:03Searching for a missing ship and sustaining castaway cachesChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:27:12Three changes for US Navy effectiveness in the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:57:09Why peripheral Mark 57 VLS cells are not normally reloaded at seaQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine11:38Plan Z's force mix and caliber burdenNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine31:09Retained pre-dreadnoughts as a personnel burdenNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine43:44The surface fleet an oceanic submarine war requiredNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:09:20H-class scale, range, and the raiding contradictionNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19390:49Tsushima's logistical feat and damaged naval inheritanceChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-19397:28Potemkin turned bad food into a command crisisChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193924:58Submarine crews paid for shortages in seals and sparesNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193925:52River flotillas made inland warfare a major Soviet strengthNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII43:22Prestige pushed German cruisers away from diesel propulsionQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII53:46Unified secondary guns save more than mount weightQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:15:25Why Royal Sovereign deteriorated in Soviet serviceQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:29:03Occupied French yards could not simply expand German outputQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:40:19Hipper machinery consumed endurance and maintenance effortQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response24:01Fleet standardization versus the prestige of 16-inch gunsNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response49:45Why Britain could not simply copy U.S. turboelectric driveQ&A
- Admiral Hipper Class16:45Machinery complexity and unchecked design growthChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class35:42Why Admiral Hipper never returned to readinessChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class52:44Prinz Eugen and the logistics of the Bismarck sortieChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class54:42A British magnetic mine delayed Prinz Eugen's sortieNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response7:40Why removing one Allied power rewrites the whole warNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books35:53The Black Sea Fleet from Odessa to SevastopolNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books50:25Reading Gorshkov's sea power as strategic signalingNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books57:18Naval power, food relief, and Estonia in 1919Chapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:18:54How coal consumption ended Novik's escapeNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books4:24:48Why 2030s surface combatants keep growingQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response21:19Separating Soviet strategic thought from logistical capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?45:18The dockyards and basing logic behind a global G3 forceChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:27:51Would a 15-inch/50 weapon have spread across the Royal Navy?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:42:28Would fuel tanks improve Hood's crushing-tube protection?Q&A
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....28:07Aurora's Canadian presence mission ends in budget collapseChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1217:47Why the Royal Navy wanted the Cressy classChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1220:28Coal endurance depended on fuel and shipboard expertiseNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:17:16Admiralty micromanagement on the Broad FourteensNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:29:02What keeping a warship in ordinary requiredQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:57:46How early gas turbines could reshape battleship designNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:15:38Why a blue-water navy requires experience as well as shipsQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)4:18Suez draft and coaling limit European reinforcementsNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)12:26Shipyards need railways, canals, and industrial clustersNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)16:03Machinery gives Asama speed and oceanic rangeChapter
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)22:25Standardized turrets turn ships into a fleetNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)5:58Balancing Diadem's cost, range, and rough-sea speedChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)12:28Why sixteen six-inch guns suited the Diadem roleChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)30:47Diadem's global service in an era of rapid changeChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)52:50Europa moves crews, serves at the Dardanelles, and finds a civilian afterlifeChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)58:39Amphitrite and the personnel logistics of a global fleetChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)1:08:19Why the Royal Navy abandoned the middle cruiser tierChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)6:36Commerce raiders against British cruiser escortsChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)24:49Fourteen boilers, continuous speed, and vibration trialsChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)36:49French raider bases versus one-off boiler logisticsNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)15:09Naval constructors enforce class disciplineNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)29:33Descartes cycles through colonial stations and multinational displaysChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)41:27Limited support facilities reduce Pascal to a ten-knot cruiserNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers19:58The larger Soviet task-group vision behind SverdlovNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)26:53Latona shifts from sea rescue to submarine support and minelayingNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)39:10Sappho protects convoys and polices contraband routesNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)51:32Indefatigable shows the cost of sustained overseas serviceNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)1:03:47Rainbow's purchase tests operating-cost assumptionsNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books43:14Why arsenal ships run into a missile inventory problemQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books50:06How larger dry docks reshape fleet optionsQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:25:31The Bretagne class as a logistics warningNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:35:38Why varied Sherman engines differ from varied battleship boilersNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:38:46Do different boilers require different gearboxes?Q&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:42:14Why a captured French predreadnought would be hard to absorbQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:29:40The maintenance burden of three carrier aircraft typesQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:32:41Aircraft spares make the supply ship a carrier-group vulnerabilityQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:55:12Why more small ships are not automatically cheaperNotable Point
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty16:35Why maritime forces require specialized integrationChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:02:48Why replacement turbine blades are not simple copiesQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:20:48Graf Spee's hidden damage and the limits of neutral refugeQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:32:04Why six-gun turrets compound maintenance and operational riskQ&A
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?10:37Why speed could not solve Italy's two-front Mediterranean problemNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?43:58Italy's resource shortage mattered more than the ships' braveryNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road47:24A sixteen-gun battleship needs roughly four thousand main-battery shellsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:05:31Why the Kriegsmarine could sortie raiders but not sustain an Atlantic task forceQ&A
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)18:57Hertha's global presence depended on foreign dry docksNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)27:32Vineta revives an America station without a secure baseChapter
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)29:39Vineta combines coercion with dependence on American repairChapter
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)32:56Hansa responds to the Boxer Uprising and Russo-Japanese WarChapter
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)35:57Hansa rescues a liner before leaving East AsiaNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 521:45Blake carried crews, projected presence, and supported destroyersChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 527:37Blenheim's ceremonial voyages and Gallipoli support roleChapter
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 315:57Reserve, Morocco, and collier duties extended Forbin's careerChapter
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 317:03Forbin's exercises tested towing and divided-fleet strategyChapter
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 329:22The Jeune École neglected the fleet enablers its strategy requiredNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 335:26Recovery and towing keep damaged forces usableNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control3:00The East Asia Squadron's strategic trapChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:49:22Maritime patrol aircraft benefit from a mass-produced airframeQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:58:13A licensed commercial airframe could replace Nimrod's bespoke foundationQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:03:11How many weapon systems burdened Béarn?Q&A
- Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 134:24HMS Forth supports wartime submarine flotillasChapter
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?35:28Fearless supports Arethusa and helps trap MainzChapter
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:19:35Unicorn's support-ship design helped shape capable light carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:53:03Britain improvised carrier transport with the GannetQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:29:23Why sixteen Canadian combatants could balance two coastsQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers23:26An isolated starship needs expeditionary depthChapter
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers39:41The forty-four-day Pegasus supply cycleChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War39:04What the Falklands War exposed about fleet depthQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War51:18If Singapore held against JapanQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War58:18If Japanese troops retreated from SingaporeQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:00:36How Admiral-class carriers would reshape dockyardsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:21:55Cunningham on Mediterranean air power and logisticsChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:24:49How air attack could disrupt the Suez Canal without destroying itChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:27:11The Inshore Squadron as the army's coastal logistics serviceChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:31:09Royal Navy mobilization and support in KoreaChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:35:05HMS Ladybird as a Commonwealth command and logistics hubNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:30:50War Memorandum Eastern as preparation strategyChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:32:37Why paper fleet totals were not enough in the Far EastChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:53:43How war consumes a ship's fatigue lifeQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War4:01:11Why wartime maintenance schedules collapseQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War4:02:22Could the Nelson class standardize on 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response29:18What if Hawaii had become a Belgian colony?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:10:18Tsushima begins with the decision to send the fleetChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:13:35Tsushima shaped a slower British Far East strategyNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:18:28Alliances shaped the fleet that reached TsushimaNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:24:07Forward basing requires defense, supply, and intelligenceNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina13:02A balanced light cruiser instead of a speed specialistChapter
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina34:47Why guns and cruisers kept doing the routine workNotable Point
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video6:10Keeping French guns supplied in Allied serviceQ&A
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:09:30St. Louis surveys the Atlantic base networkNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:41:10Falklands logistics show why near-peer wars stay difficultNotable Point
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More6:37Remnant Faction: mobilizing an intact reserve fleetChapter
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More46:53Concentrating a fleet requires ammunition and exposes the frontierChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations36:10MAC ships bridge the gap to true escort carriersNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:02:01Escort carriers fill the fleet's shortage of flight decksChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)13:13Why Edgar needed twice the range of later Town cruisersQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)24:13The hidden cost of maintaining a close blockadeNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)33:52Clear roles make warship compromises manageableNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)9:40A three-squadron cruiser plan for 1880s BrazilQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)33:16Choosing between global and regional cruiser designsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 320:29The infrastructure behind 100,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 344:18Four naval-industrial cities for a stronger Soviet fleetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:01:00What Ceylon needed to support British carrier strikesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:41:15The fleet required to sustain Chinese overseas basesQ&A
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 1223:17Why Gefion's range did not fit commerce raidingNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4211:34The industrial foundations needed to fix the Soviet fleetQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4222:05Oil-tanker diversion had already narrowed Japan's optionsNotable Point
- Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 108:56HMS Edgar carries relief crews to the China StationChapter
- Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 1011:31HMS Hawke's Mediterranean and relief-crew dutiesChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 245:14Why Japanese submarines lacked an Atlantic-style trade targetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:07:35Preferred sailing waters in the Age of SailQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:23:43Moving Project Habakkuk into the PacificQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:34:57Why Panama shaped US warship dimensionsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:15:48How much personal kit Royal Navy sailors could carryQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:24:18Trading VLS cells for trainable missile launchersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:29:23The 4.5-inch gun Britain most needed in 1936Q&A
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p78:47The protected cruiser as a commerce-protection warshipNotable Point
- Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p616:17Commissioning Leander reveals everyday fleet readinessNotable Point
- Leander Class(1882): 19th Century Cruisers p646:22Sail remained insurance against missing coal infrastructureNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p44:42Heavy guns without a Pacific ammunition supplyNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p418:52Delayed commissioning and brief Pacific serviceChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out54:00Why Pacific battleships saw fewer fleet actionsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:08:30Why the Royal Navy could not send its battle fleet straight to the PacificQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:10:04What extra Royal Navy carriers requireQ&A
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p327:18Britain uses ships and logistics as diplomatic leverageNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4049:07Why the Atlanta class offered a better fleet-wide gun systemQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:58:31How a mixed remnant fleet could hobble German naval recoveryQ&A
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p134:53Unprotected cruiser or armed merchant ship?Notable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments9:20Could the French fleet have dispersed to the Far East?Q&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches2:08:05Where would a mobile naval base be useful?Q&A
- Town Class (1911): Chathams46:44HMAS Brisbane links Australian shipbuilding with ocean patrolsChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194215:27The impossible geography of an ideal warChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19420:52Japan could not match American ships or secure its fuelChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194213:04Pearl Harbor first needed a logistical surgeChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National14:13Superheated steam unlocked speed and rangeNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194133:38Wars are fought with forces already in placeChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War23:47Dewey's orders and the Hong Kong logistical springboardChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War53:10Charleston is recommissioned to reinforce DeweyChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:05:56Cervera objects to a mission his squadron cannot sustainChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments46:04Why Australian naval infrastructure arrived too lateNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:00:48The value and difficulty of torpedo boats at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:01:58Synthetic fuel as Japan's minimum naval operating baseNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:32:01Great Eastern as a global torpedo-boat depotQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194036:25Machine tools underpin Commonwealth naval growthNotable Point
- Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?38:28The high-speed Little Boy delivery missionChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19398:42Japan's long-war infrastructure problemChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193911:19The missing logistics behind the Southern Resource AreaChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193927:05Standardizing German capital ships on ScharnhorstChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193929:44The logistical cost of too many U-boat variantsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193938:57Building German escorts from the Mowe classChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193930:45Fast oilers designed for escort-carrier conversionNotable Point
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.4:56The Royal Navy's global dockyard networkChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.12:36Cockatoo Island's repair skills supported strategic independenceNotable Point
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.23:35Australian fuel stockpiles shortened wartime supply linesNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths3:19Bristol propulsion, range, and the cruiser missionChapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books44:03Why modern cruise ships make poor wartime transportsQ&A
- Ruse de guerre25:42Ocean-liner speed exposes warship endurance limitsNotable Point
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)31:39Why shipyard geography kept Nakhimov in the northChapter
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:41:11Why old pre-dreadnought hulls made useful auxiliariesQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:07:49Disguised raiders stretch British protection worldwideChapter
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:32:25A raider's value exceeds the ships it sinksQ&A
- Kirov Class Cruisers (Soviet Navy)36:42Lazar Kaganovich and a transcontinental supply chainChapter
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:43:43Why five-inch guns better matched the Atlanta-class missionQ&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine37:33Mediterranean geography narrows the cruiser missionChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine44:52Naval treaties make cruisers Italy's status unitsChapter
- Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 26:01Giussano protection and the range a fleet neededChapter
- Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 28:53The Cadorna class range and displacement puzzleChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)33:02Western Mediterranean geography favored speed and air defenseChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)36:00France's Far East fleet as an allied force enablerChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:05:09French eight-inch ships as fast first-class cruisersChapter
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:10:37Light cruisers led the Mediterranean formationChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)2:14Infrastructure, not nuclear weapons, sustains US global reachQ&A
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)35:47Puget Sound shipbuilding and the morale value of a major warshipNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:09:07Why supply politics could shape Spain's carrier choiceQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)56:24Horizon shows where multinational standardization worksChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?54:52Why missile shortages could restore naval gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:15:28Type 054A as a true frigate baselineChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:52:40Why European carriers still need logisticsQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:04:21Should fleet tankers use civilian standards?Q&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:11:32Questioning fleet-tanker gun installation hoursQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 244:03What supplied British blockade fleets in the Napoleonic WarsQ&A
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))9:51Albert Percy Addison and dockyard mobilizationChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))38:55A wartime Admiralty needed leadership depthChapter
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...23:13How naval logistics sustained British rifle useChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)50:04Sidney Bailey linked British needs with American aidNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:19:51Geoffrey Arbuthnot as an available reserve admiralNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:53:38The Admiralty needed depth far below the First Sea LordChapter
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)17:16Suffren-class machinery, endurance, and protectionChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels47:55Sending I-400 submarines to France in 1944Q&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:17:10Ocean-class cargo ships and wartime logisticsChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:34:29Ocean, Liberty, and Victory cargo-ship tradeoffsQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)22:00Why Egypt was a poor route to IndiaChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)31:31Perrée's depleted frigate squadron in EgyptChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:12:47Why choose Canadian and British guns already in service?Q&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:13:48Sea supply frustrates a siegeQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:24:34Could Canada join a British Bofors 40 mm purchase?Q&A
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)6:29How early naval losses compound across warsNotable Point
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)41:46Santa Teresa and the informal economy of blockadeNotable Point
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)1:01:08Frigates sustain blockade, supply, and informationNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:52:39How triple 15-inch guns could change King George V serviceQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)1:20:55Railways, ports, and the foundations of maritime powerNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)25:07Range explains Gato-class displacementNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)50:17Unlimited auxiliaries for wartime logisticsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)44:20Why geography pushed Britain toward armoured carriersChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)1:13:07Why two carriers do not create a continuous capabilityNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)35:39Geography made the Pacific freeze unequalNotable Point
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy3:27:17Why a Flower-class corvette might carry a chickenQ&A
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)36:32Night attacks, Long Lance, and the supply problemChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)43:31Long-range strike submarines and interservice rivalryNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine30:42Why 21-inch torpedoes became the practical standardQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:02:39Submarine technology exchange needed more than plansNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:17What made Dunkirk possible?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)19:39Could the King George V class have used a different turret layout?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:32:08Peregrines as an integrated fleet air groupChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)40:54Coal, oil, and the Royal Navy's global support problemNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)51:08Why historical warship range figures need cautionQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN27:44Why vertical-launch cells are difficult to reload at seaQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN31:54Floating dry docks as protected forward repair basesQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature10:27Captured German warships imposed a second logistics systemNotable Point
- Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)17:53Sveaborg exposed the limits of a fleet frozen into harbourChapter
- NMS Elisabeta (Romanian Navy): A Cruiser's Purpose (Long Patrol)11:03Design, speed, and ammunition commonalityChapter
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...53:04How long it takes to store a frigateQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:04:25Why modern warships prioritise sustained speed over maximum speedQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:11:02Why submarines did not become routine defended supply shipsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:58:41Why British cruiser endurance can look weak in one-on-one comparisonsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...4:15:10What a commerce-raiding force needsQ&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)15:51Fleet scale and the manpower of a quinqueremeNotable Point
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)22:24Q&A: How were large fleets supplied with food and water?Q&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)25:17Q&A: How long did the invasion fleet need to stay at sea?Q&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:19:36Q&A: Where did Rome obtain timber for its fleets?Q&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:22:23Q&A: Did fleet rebuilding cause timber shortages?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)32:54Finding a fugitive capital ship through fuel logisticsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:01:08Why Japanese logistics still constrain an advance on AustraliaQ&A
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)16:44Making Scapa Flow safe for the Grand FleetChapter
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)19:39Fuel supply constrained Scapa Flow's wartime usefulnessNotable Point
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)51:54A future resupply base and mobile-basing lessonChapter
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)55:25What a transportable naval base would needNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future22:31Why Scapa Flow is strategically useful and logistically awkwardChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future27:29A fleet anchorage needs a railway behind itNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future32:24Could Scapa Flow be a modern submarine base?Q&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:13:11Forward base, not a self-sufficient dockyardNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:35:20Why could Rosyth support ships that Scapa Flow could not?Q&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:30:56Why the fleet left, and what Scapa Flow still doesChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:44:38Could Rosyth support today's Royal Navy?Q&A
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)8:05Coal quality behind the published performanceNotable Point
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)23:05Why four available cruisers may require twelveNotable Point
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:39:14Dockside steam and warship support systemsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:30:20Beer, ice cream, and Allied naval logisticsQ&A
- Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)8:15Why Malta keeps becoming a targetChapter
- Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)50:04The Axis price of trying to neutralize MaltaNotable Point
- Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)50:54Malta as the Mediterranean's supply-route lynchpinNotable Point
- Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)51:08What holding Crete could have added to MaltaNotable Point
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:09:09The logistical burden of moving carrier aviationNotable Point
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...1:50:26What happened to supplies brought ashore during the siege?Q&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:27:11Malta as a threat to Axis supply linesChapter
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:27:29How holding Crete as well as Malta could change supply routesNotable Point
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions3:14:47Logistics limits on Black Sea Fleet tempoNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)50:17Capital ships need escorts, scouts, and supply shipsNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)6:07Why geography changes the armour-aircraft trade-offNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)22:01Convoy duty can cancel a fast escort's escape optionNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)36:46Ammunition limits the simulated British victoryNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)17:15Why control of the cruisers mattered to the Army of AfricaChapter
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)31:14York reveals the limits of overseas dockyardsNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet32:57What capturing an enemy cruiser could meanQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:01:17How the possibility of a battlecruiser dilutes raider patrolsQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:49:36What navies did with guns from scrapped capital shipsQ&A
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)27:07Cargo liners, convoy losses, and the human cost of commerce warChapter
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)34:49Bathurst corvettes and hydrography as naval logisticsNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:07:22Tribal destroyers and the need for fleet reservesNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)9:12Singapore as the Far East fleet hubChapter
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)11:38Why the British design reaches 50,000 tons loadedNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)39:55Cruising speed turns endurance into strategyNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)44:00Ammunition limits end the simulated actionNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:07:18Why Italy's merchant fleet sustained the North Africa campaignQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:10:25Did U.S. loss planning include fleet oilers?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:48:25Canadian Tribals kept German destroyers from Normandy's supply lanesNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion20:29Why surface raiding needs numbersNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)11:24Why range mattered more than a small speed advantageChapter
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)16:32The strategic value of a long-legged small cruiserNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:41:32A forward fleet needs a functioning baseNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)57:30The practical friction in American refits of British shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:20:05Why rainwater cannot sustain a steamship's boilersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:57:28Why a port can be the wrong place to unload landing shipsQ&A
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#31:33Cancelled exercises and a fleet short of suppliesChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)10:42The patrol-aircraft constraint at Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:38:15Richardson's warning about an unsupported deterrentChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:48:44What a cancelled fleet exercise revealedNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:53:52What would make Hawaii a credible deterrent base?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:03:01How culpable was Kimmel with inadequate resources?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:17:52Why Kimmel could not keep the whole fleet at seaNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:22:25The fourfold reconnaissance shortfallNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:29:54Who owned the decision to support Hawaii?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:38:08Pearl Harbor as a system failureChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)2:47:52How speed changes the voyage to Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)28:22Why would Vladivostok not solve the basing problem?Q&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)32:51Why would a 1939 Japanese southward offensive struggle?Q&A
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)3:41Forward basing ties doctrine to maintenance and securityNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)20:45Kantai Kessen and its dangerous assumptionChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)58:50Britain's answer: reinforce Singapore and advance by stagesChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:07:03Commerce raiding exposes Japan's escort shortfallNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?37:02Mitsumasa Yonai's case for infrastructure over prestige shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?44:05Which infrastructure did Yonai think Japan lacked?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?54:56How long would synthetic-fuel plants take to build?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:38:08Fuel is the decisive constraint in a 1939 Pacific warNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:29:59Fast Allied raiders force Japan to spend fuelNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion33:05Gun numbers matter when logistics support themNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)11:42How the heavy-cruiser battle group worksChapter
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)14:25The logistics fleet behind three-galaxy operationsChapter
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound14:45C6N reconnaissance undone by serviceabilityNotable Point
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound21:37Optimism bias and serviceability planningNotable Point
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound25:00Tan No. 2's strike plan had no fuel marginChapter
- The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound31:58Submarine support and rigid planningNotable Point
- Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)14:45C6N Saiun reconnaissance and logistical fragilityNotable Point
- Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)21:34Planning for perfect serviceabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:07:15Forward presence balanced with a rapid-reaction fleetChapter
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:20:09Why occupying Ascension Island would have delayed the Falklands campaignQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:56:09How wars-of-choice assumptions hollow out logistics planningQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:00:03Why fuel and ammunition make a difficult combined auxiliaryQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:17:38Why land rockets do not automatically belong on ordinary warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:43:18How corruption erodes a navy's real capabilityChapter
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:11:40The Fat Leonard scandal and port-service leverageNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)0:38Carthage's high-risk relief attemptChapter
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)18:01Rome finances a final blockade fleetChapter
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)33:52The islands shape the blockade routeNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)34:26Supplies and surprise leave Carthage unready to fightChapter
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)44:16Twenty-three years of war build Roman naval powerNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:08:10Could Ulithi still support a fleet?Q&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:17:40Floating docks offered a higher-value targetNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:31:13Why Japan kept targeting carriers instead of logisticsQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)1:38:01Submarine logistics and unreliable reconnaissanceNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:56:20Tentative estimates of cordite stocks and British productionQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)54:17Did galley crews live aboard?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:03:34Carthage's trading empire and Rome's military systemChapter
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:26:18Ancient fleets demanded mass mobilizationNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)1:46:48Carthage's overloaded relief expeditionChapter
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:38:10Why did Rome outlast Carthage?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:51:51Designing a warship for an ancient deploymentQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:56:37Why choose coal over nuclear power for an ancient mission?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:59:41Making ammunition in the ancient worldQ&A
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion7:01Why published displacement figures misleadNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)32:32Heavy torpedoes demand handling and reloading machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World38:16The scale of Russia's Black Sea amphibious forceQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World44:51Tsushima and the limits of paper strengthNotable Point
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World59:24Commerce raiding needs speed and supportQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:38:40What Royal Fleet Auxiliary scale says about European logisticsNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol10:39Corfu as an Ionian naval baseChapter
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): Long Patrol30:40Corfu and coalition Mediterranean logisticsNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)15:18Why a small speed margin can cost operational radiusNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today14:51Why Corfu mattered in the Ionian SeaChapter
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:07:51Why wartime convoys assembled at Sierra LeoneQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:54:34Why a huge auxiliary fleet implies a much larger navyQ&A
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)38:12Avoid overlapping missile systemsNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)40:39Foreign support networks create strategic dependenceNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament12:02G3: concentrating armour, machinery, and dockyard needsNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament20:28Dockyard improvements and treaty restrictionsQ&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament38:17Why prefer G3 over Iowa?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:58:45Completed 18-inch ships would change treaty bargainingNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)1:32Global infrastructure as naval strengthChapter
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)4:39Commercial docks do not guarantee strategic coverageNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)12:29Why Bermuda received a floating dockChapter
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)17:00Towing a dock across the AtlanticNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)26:59Allied repair capacity limits global operationsNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)39:58A worldwide ladder of dock capacityChapter
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)53:49Mobile infrastructure sustains maritime powerChapter
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:09:19Why a class of Renowns could outperform a mixed fast fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:16:54How class commonality makes modernization affordableQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:10:11Why better commanders cannot erase industrial limitsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:23:26How wartime logistics exposed India's infrastructure weaknessNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)12:02Dockyard capacity behind the Renown decisionChapter
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)20:06Repulse, global presence, and naval infrastructureNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:44:21What standard displacement meant under the treatyNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:37:22Q&A: why choose 16-inch guns despite logistics?Q&A
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)9:47Dockyard access as a design constraintNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)11:52Why proven machinery won over turbinesNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)0:01Infrastructure sets a navy's practical optionsChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)10:28Worldwide basing versus larger warshipsChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)24:36Duncan Dock and the distances of empireChapter
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:27:32How naval and civilian drydock priorities divergedQ&A
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)3:50Infrastructure sets a navy's maritime reachChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)13:45What makes a dry dock genuinely usableChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)26:10Haulbowline and repair depth in the Irish SeaChapter
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)31:05Maintenance capacity keeps a fleet effectiveNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider23:59A common 4.5-inch battery across the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider33:49Why another close-in missile can be a fleet burdenQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:15:58The wider cost of King George V’s 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:27:18The nineteenth-century crew-health lesson still mattered in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:28:00Why smaller navies need general-purpose escortsQ&A
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)37:01Ports and basins as fleet-maintenance infrastructureNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions7:20Why nuclear-warship disposal is deferredQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions42:01Where Britain stored guns from scrapped warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:55:52Designing a 6,500-ton Chinese heavy cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:24:02Why Atlantis needs shipyardsQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"48:07A global network for keeping ships operationalChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:23:02Rosyth and the Grand Fleet's maintenance problemNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:51:25Hong Kong as an imperial repair baseChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:57:29Repair capacity as wartime force generationChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:05:45Halifax linked its dry dock and coaling wharf to rail supplyNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:22:30Bermuda's floating dock as strategic mobilityChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:23:10The global dock network favoured a 20,000-ton heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:37:31Star Wars and Star Trek illustrate mobile repair logisticsNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:37:58Japan's fleet lacked enough mobile repair capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:48:20Floating docks for forward fleet supportChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:52:48Who commanded and worked an Admiralty floating dockQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:59:14Why the modern Royal Navy lacks a large floating-dock fleetQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:05:39Why Suez mattered more than Panama to Royal Navy designQ&A
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol13:07The Baltic Fleet voyage: logistical feat, strategic failureChapter
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol17:34Port Arthur and the cost of an unsupported baseNotable Point
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol24:37Industrial reform could not outrun the railway gapChapter
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol1:13:44Why infrastructure mattered more than another paper fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."20:18Why reaching Tsushima was an achievement but the plan was notNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."1:19:11Q&A: Where would the Royal Navy operate inside the Baltic?Q&A
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)38:19The wartime value Pluton never deliveredChapter
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)40:56How auxiliary loads cut Pluton's practical rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:06Why fleets group similar shipsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:06:13Why a carrier fleet needs more replenishment shipsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:13:03Why close-in weapon systems use different gun arrangementsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:13:44Anson's Navy as a guide to fleet logisticsChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)49:40Why endurance is more than rangeQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)52:35Why fleet growth must include maintenance yardsQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:03:06Gloucester's loss was not simply a design verdictNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:39:05Would retired Aegis ships suit Taiwan?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:46:46Could navies again face a convoy-escort shortage?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)20:18How carrier survival could alter the North African warNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)39:12Why a return to coal failed the manpower testQ&A
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)28:56A distant base is not an ocean-going task forceQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:52:19Abdiel class: speed as minelaying powerChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:04:32HMS Unicorn and distant fleet aviation supportNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:13:40How Unicorn filled carrier and flagship gapsQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:37:04Do Kirov-class ships need ocean-going tugs?Q&A
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)26:53County cruisers as station flagshipsChapter
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)35:59Kent-class machinery, speed, and rangeChapter
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:11:05Why coast batteries could mix unlike heavy gunsQ&A
- The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)1:00:41Deterrence requires capability and clear signalsChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)10:37Shell weight and ammunition logisticsNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)13:32Range, machinery, and the cost of 24 knotsNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)26:01Why the Royal Navy may have kept twin turretsChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)15:25Why the Navy kept finding other jobs for AbdielsChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)17:19The fuel cost of nearly 40 knotsNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)22:12Latona as a high-speed transportNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)25:05Manxman and the changing value of the fast minelayerChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)29:07Welshman, Malta runs, and the limits of speedChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)36:40Apollo's Korean War and Home Fleet utilityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)27:40Walrus floatplanes doubled as fleet taxisQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:36:28The Falklands replaced vulnerable at-sea supply shipsQ&A
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 92:07Stores and crew comfort sustained an inshore monitorNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 95:00A monitor built around guns, machinery, and storesNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 910:24Fuel range and changing shoals close inshoreChapter
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 957:35Sustained missions require more hulls than a surgeNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars12:19Range and geography shaped the submarine forceChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:08:34Convoy ASW and fleet ASW required different escortsChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:13:51Why Allied supply submarines were unnecessary in the PacificQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:14:21Warm and cold waters did not create separate insulation schemesQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:15:07Why submarine numbers mattered only if they arrived in timeQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:44:25Why imperial shipyard capacity was slow to expandQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...36:18How Operation Torch temporarily thinned Atlantic convoy escortsQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:00:46Why Great Eastern would make an accommodation ship, not a carrierQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:35:45Anson's Navy and the infrastructure behind a fleetChapter
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:56:46The logistical deadline behind the end of the Falklands WarQ&A
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 825:06Timing sent Roberts and Abercrombie to different campaignsNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII15:29Why San Diego was the supportable alternative to Pearl HarborQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII35:22Harwich needed both an operational commander and a dockyard commanderNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:00:48Convoy demand reduced the destroyers available at HarwichQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:04:47Why the best component was not always the best Royal Navy systemQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)26:32Why Pearl Harbor was not the desired battlefieldChapter
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)38:20Pearl Harbor’s repair and fuel system matteredQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)42:56Why a British fleet belonged nearer SingaporeQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)49:57Why Alaska was not a shortcut to JapanQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)52:15Floating docks were critical missed targetsQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)55:30The fuel tank farm was a Pacific bottleneckQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:16:45Pearl Harbor was not fully ready to sustain warNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:47:20Converted tankers limited Japanese strike-group scaleQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)3:17:37Japan expected Britain to be distractedQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:17:54Range limits point toward Atlantic serviceQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?3:01:48How earlier victories could concentrate the Eastern FleetChapter
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?3:05:26When British carriers might adopt American aircraftQ&A
- The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol42:44Standardisation and forward naval logisticsNotable Point
- The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol1:07:20Baltic naval stores and British restraintNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?46:42Pearl Harbor as a forward-base problemChapter
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?56:14What Pearl Harbor was supposed to buyChapter
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?59:05Damaging Pearl Harbor versus stopping mobilizationNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:00:00Prewar planning for a Hawaiian air raidChapter
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:11:22Why the raid was not a clean decisive battleNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:14:34Operational damage and the missed repair facilitiesNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:49:16Oil fuel, logistics, and command of the seaNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:51:25Oil security depended on sea routes and alternative suppliersNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:22:50Why VLS reloading and missile stockpiles pose different problemsQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:25:29Could stronger missile containers help VLS reloading?Q&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:26:21Soviet naval diplomacy: deployments, logistics, and port accessChapter
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:32:59China's port investments as an alternative naval support networkNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:38:51Why containerized missile launchers still need difficult handlingQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)17:24How the East India Company built usable armiesNotable Point
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)1:49:36Logistics lessons later read by HaldaneNotable Point
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:13:09Cuddalore and limited sea control in IndiaChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:32:47Madras, trading posts, and Company financeChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:23:37Q&A: dedicated shipping is a recurring requirementQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:32:55Cape Finisterre and the professional naval legacyNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol5:03Guadalcanal's limited value becomes a strategic trapNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol13:51Reinforcing Guadalcanal deepens Japan's supply crisisChapter
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol17:03Why submarine deliveries could not sustain the garrisonNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol20:29The floating-drum supply methodNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat18:36Building an ideal Second World War fleetQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat2:28:03Why a common F-35B fleet can simplify a smaller navyQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...7:52Why fleets need repair and support shipsChapter
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...40:04Standardization and the rise of shore supportChapter
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...43:45Kamchatka and a fleet without friendly portsNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...50:39The Great White Fleet's logistics lessonNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...58:22Tender as a support relationshipQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:16:20Repair ships as a long-war investmentQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:24:16Converted tenders as affordable long-war preparationNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:25:44Could an LPD support and repair drones?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:21:42What a multi-role support ship could replaceChapter
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:30:49How many multi-role support ships would a fleet need?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:38:13Why was Britain unusual in building forward aviation support ships?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:56:12Did submarine milk cows count as tenders?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:59:53What was Britain's equivalent to the Seabees?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...3:20:36How 3D printing changes future repair shipsQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...3:29:57How specialized could store ships become?Q&A
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design16:33Combining Hood's reach with Renown's cruising speedNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol1:03:31Armed merchant cruisers as a wartime force multiplierNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions28:10Redirecting Japanese submarines toward fleet tankersQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions31:04Oil tankers as a foundation of modern naval logisticsChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:31:11Mixed secondary calibres create a logistics burdenQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:38:46In a major war, missiles run short before shipsQ&A
- Sherman's March to the Sea2:40Reaching the sea to obtain siege artilleryNotable Point
- Sherman's March to the Sea1:08:34Fort McAllister restores the sea linkNotable Point
- Sherman's March to the Sea1:21:49Heavy equipment leaves a logistical signatureNotable Point
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?8:44Missile magazines do not replace every close-range gunNotable Point
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?40:14Why reloading vertical launch cells at sea is so difficultChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?45:15Why carriers can rearm at sea and lasers remain a future answerChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?47:07Long-war endurance: rearming ships and rebuilding missile stocksChapter
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...34:25Why a warship may sail with empty launch cellsNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:58:09Why empty VLS cells usually mean a return to portQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...2:03:01Carriers keep combat power reloadable at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books51:07What happens when missiles run shortQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:20:26Why modern warships make poor prison shipsQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:24:20Naval guns for a long warQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:32:33Missile stocks and industrial replacementNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary2:42:47Why the battered Swordfish returned to serviceNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary2:48:55Operational attrition beyond enemy fireNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary3:46:41How many torpedo strikes Illustrious could supportQ&A
- The Plan for Taranto: Taranto Long Patrol P30:22Operation MB8 beyond the Taranto air strikeChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat59:28Enterprise carried an eight-reactor support burdenQ&A
- Operation Judgment: HMS Eagle Variance (the 10mins of lost sound from Operation MB8! - Long Patrol)0:41Operation MB8 as a web of simultaneous commitmentsChapter
- Operation Judgment: HMS Eagle Variance (the 10mins of lost sound from Operation MB8! - Long Patrol)26:46Availability matters more than paper strengthNotable Point
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)0:30Operation MB8 was chiefly a reinforcement operationChapter
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)18:08AN6 shows the value of distributed coverChapter
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)22:21MW3 and the useful work of older destroyersChapter
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)46:00The best operational plan may use the second-best tactical toolNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:06:59Why replenishment matters more than packing months of rationsQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:13:44Singapore as a theatre logistics hubNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:49Logistics as a hub-and-spoke systemChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore12:31Why coal made overseas logistics essentialNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore16:39Fuel is only one part of replenishmentChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore19:44Singapore as a theater logistics hubChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore21:59Convoy practice protected logistics shipsQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore22:33Auxiliaries stayed outside naval treaty tonnageQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore30:25A base is not automatically a supply baseNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore39:23Supplying the Eastern Fleet after SingaporeQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore45:24War Plan Orange and forward basesChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore49:31Reading on Pacific naval logisticsQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:00:12Secret bases enabled a quiet fleet moveChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:03:37Base X extended Mediterranean logisticsNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:16:41Dutch neutrality limited fuel planningQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:19:48Mobile bases were built on arrivalNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:25:06Addu became a wartime fallbackQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:39:15The Royal Fleet Auxiliary sustained the fleetQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:41:14The 2021 RFA matched support ships to force speedNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:57:48The fast-oiler force expanded during the warQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:07:25Fisher helped create the RFAQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:38:56Treaty fuel exclusion favored global naviesNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:43:32Oil stockpiles created operational freedomNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:50:46Interwar RFA tanker strengthChapter
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:17:12Fast-oiler size balanced risk and capacityQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:27:08European forces drew fuel through portsQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:28:51Merchant ships could stock secret bases without a special planQ&A
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol0:41The problem with judging 1939 by 1944Chapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol2:12Why fleets need both logistics hubs and replenishment at seaChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol7:29Royal Navy logistics long predated oilersNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol8:08Why peacetime budgets neglect logistics equipmentNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol11:16Singapore as a hub, not the fleet's final fighting baseChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol15:26Logistics strategy must fit the theatreNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol16:05Defensible bases for a China Station warChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol17:31Secret refuelling bases and the speed of advanceNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol22:49Alternative Indian Ocean routes to SingaporeNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol24:41Singapore's role as a fleet-support arsenalChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol26:45Why Mediterranean refuelling favored secure portsNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol35:18Forward oil stocks and the Royal Fleet AuxiliaryChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol50:38How the fall of Singapore changed Pacific logisticsChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol52:26A counterfactual 1939 Far Eastern warNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol54:00Adaptation rather than predictionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol6:32Orders and weather made Trafalgar possibleNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol24:01The return crossing, Ireland diversion, and Channel raceChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol35:05Readiness was more than the number of shipsChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:02:20Concentrating British force after Cape FinisterreChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)42:54Britain's blockade network and ships on stationNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:43:09The storm and the problem of captured prizesChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign7:13Concentration could trap the allied fleetNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign9:03British mobilisation and sea-going experienceChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign17:30Cartagena, Cádiz, and the West Indies breakoutChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign19:06Orde reinforces the Channel Fleet without a port callNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p4: The Early Campaign26:20Engineering HMS Diamond RockChapter
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)9:22Havana's harbour economy and global trade routesChapter
- Battle of Havana (12th of October 1748)27:45A Spanish squadron balanced against Havana's defencesChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)11:37The limits of reusing a decommissioned carrierQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)46:41Why a lightship makes a poor mobile fleet decoyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)51:13Why a forward-deployed navy still needs repair shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:30:34How shipboard hydrogen production could support a task groupNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 815:04Erebus at Walcheren and Operation InfatuateChapter
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 827:40Terror's difficult passage to SingaporeNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 832:47The advance to Benghazi outruns its air defenceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)55:44The logistical case for a common British 15-inch/45 gunNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)56:52Could Kongo use British 14-inch ammunition?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:08:32Translating Napoleonic fleets into World War II warshipsQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:00:26German ASW investment could protect convoys, not win sea controlNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...17:07Borodino range for Pacific operationsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:30:12Incomparable's extreme range as benefit and burdenQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)1:55:02How far British battleships ranged in the Second World WarQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)2:02:24Why Dunkerque needed range beyond the MediterraneanQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:41:19Why powerful engines so rarely reached Fleet Air Arm aircraftQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:48:25Mercantilism, industrial capacity, and Japan's convoy weaknessNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/417:34What made a navy ready for war in 1939?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/423:30Could the Italian Navy have served in the Pacific?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/427:02Japanese interservice rivalry and the neglected logistics baseQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/436:06Fushimi, logistics, and the appeal of visible warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:13:36Karel Doorman shows the reach of a joint support shipChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:32:50Merchant hulls can become a wartime transport reserveQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:38:37Connector speed sets the real offshore distanceChapter
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:43:24Falklands losses distinguish craft, ships, and redundancyQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:52:23Type 26 moves the Royal Navy to a supported 5-inch gunQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?43:55Why commerce raiding was a poor cruiser alternativeQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:43:49Why Japan replaced 7.9-inch guns with 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli20:29The Regia Marina as a Mediterranean strategic fulcrumChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda18:38The Allied fleets converging on an invasion of JapanNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda19:46Industrial preparedness behind Japan's fuel crisisNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:09:19Why a wartime Atlantic round trip could take two monthsQ&A
- 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 & Detterence2:10:59Pitcairn could support a light maritime outpost, not a major baseQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:40:21Project Habakkuk's scale created its own engineering problemsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:30:45Why Allied navies divided the global war by theatreQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:41:30A delayed American advance could bring the British Pacific Fleet into SaipanQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19393:41Using ship specifications to compare company fleetsNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten7:21Could an Italian squadron have reached the Pacific war?Notable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:22:49Synthetic fuel could have reduced Japan's strategic panicQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:07:10Nagano's war plan without long-war sustainmentChapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:12:03Synthetic fuel offered Japan an alternative to resource warNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:15:49Nagano recognized a long war but did not prepare for itNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany6:00The operational scale behind familiar battlesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz26:45Commerce war and the limits of a convoy claimChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (31):14:00Infrastructure as the foundation of strategic powerNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano14:11The neglected preparation for submarine warfareChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 19405:48Turning cruisers and destroyers into a landing forceChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194014:22Moving Independent Companies along the Norwegian coastChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi13:53Italy's fleet and the cost of resource prioritiesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi15:35Sea control as a North African supply solutionChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi16:52Capable admirals could not overcome a poor strategic handNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris11:13Spanish U-boat logistics and submarine commandChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)52:47Sea Slug saturation and the trap of unique missile fitsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:56:06Missile depth and the neglected logistics problemQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:29:35What an emergency-built fleet might look likeQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:40:53Why VLS reloading at sea remains a neglected investmentNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:07:36Why navies sometimes buy different small armsQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory0:34Merchant hulls became mobile repair capacityChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory3:34How floating repair facilities extend a fleetChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory5:36Crew size and lifting gear made mobile support practicalNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory7:19Dispersed repair sites complicate the targeting problemNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory8:55A repair ship concentrates many industrial tradesNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory12:31Why efficiency can become a maintenance bottleneckNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P2/14: Prince Fushimi Hiroyasu19:16Tankers, escort carriers, and synthetic fuelNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s59:13The Second Pacific Squadron's missing refit baseNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:43:50Maintenance ships reveal strategic reachChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:53:42Small components that delayed major warshipsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different17:20Industrial capacity changed the carrier-survivability calculusNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder14:46Fleet tankers amid Raeder's technological conservatismNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder23:22Procurement complexity versus a sustainable raiding fleetNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time19:22Communication as Jutland's decisive deficiencyChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:12:32Why wartime transits place extra stress on warshipsQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class6:25Range, cost, and service life of the Archer classNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper24:23What a higher British defence share would have to fundQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper47:28Why logistics should receive new defence money firstNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:16:15Why air-group logistics argue against adding the OspreyQ&A
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?38:43Royal dockyards and the logistics of multiple fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:02:52How railways sustained Royal Navy dockyardsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:08:30Why Britain would decline loaned FletchersQ&A
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean21:13Dupuy de Lôme and the logistics problemChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean29:56Amiral Charner class: cheapening an already cheap strategyChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean33:56A more pragmatic ocean-going cruiserNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean37:44Later French armoured cruisers grow largerNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean40:48Edgar Quinet finally standardises the batteryChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean42:56SMS Sankt Georg's mixed-battery burdenChapter
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI19:16Du Puy de Lôme and the logistics of a raiderNotable Point
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:52:22Could light and heavy cruisers share a hull?Q&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:54:52Could light and heavy cruisers share machinery?Q&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:55:50Early turbine commonality had limitsQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 7, M15 Class23:38M18's adaptable but temperamental hot-bulb engineNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response11:50Why Atlantic Conveyor stayed with the carrier groupQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response39:13Why no navy's doctrine is universally bestQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response49:48Convoys, insurance, and merchant-ship choicesQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response5:17Logistics shapes the escort forceNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response13:39Why U-boats could not isolate BritainQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response25:49The Allies treated the Atlantic as a war they had to winNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books32:08Moving casualties through a warshipQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books44:37The Classis Britannica as Severus's supply systemNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books2:29:57Manchurian resources and the submarine blockade of JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books2:36:54The shipping gap in a Soviet invasion of JapanQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books2:44:09Soviet landing experience and the scale of a Pacific invasionNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books2:53:47A cruiser becomes Bermuda's emergency lifelineNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:14:18Supplying Norway despite German air powerQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:17:34How an early capture of Narvik could have focused Allied reinforcementNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:21:57Destroyers carried the first German troops to NarvikQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:22:10Two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in Nelson's fleetQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response7:36Merchant Navy casualties and manpowerQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response38:41Coastal convoys around BritainQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW228:52Royal Fleet Auxiliary oilers as a planned carrier reserveNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:10:45Shimane Maru and tanker conversions for anti-submarine air coverNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol20:16Escort scarcity, convoy size, and solo sailingsNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol27:01Mobilizing conversions and armed merchant shipsNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol31:41Submarine rescue becomes an improvised raft evacuationNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)28:07Which capital ships belong in a British Asian fleetNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)44:14Oil beats coal in an underground naval baseQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:05:28What early US naval support gives BritainQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:20:05Why wartime fleets still rotate in thirdsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:39:09Japan isolates Australia instead of attacking MidwayQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:01:00The modern US Navy arrives in 1912Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:29:21Missile loadouts follow the deploymentQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/70:51Atlantic blockade as a logistics problemChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/723:57Escort pool and Operation TorchNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/724:43Atlantic geography and tradeoffsChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz11:10Submarines as high-value but fragile wartime assetsNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:29:21Cruiser submarines traded agility for range and payloadQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:48:24Smaller torpedoes could increase a raider's shot countQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions40:34Carrier pairs and operational sustainabilityQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions1:00:40Sicily, Italy's surrender, and the end of the Suez threatQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/71:27Dönitz's 300-submarine force calculationChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/715:59Modern commerce war changes the torpedo mathNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/719:54August 1941 U-boat mapChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194119:23Singapore as a prolonged reinforcement contestNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/78:04A long-range raider with six or more forward torpedo tubesChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/711:04A larger T-class submarine as the alternativeChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/712:31Long-range submarines, distant bases and the cost of surfacingChapter
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/71:46Boulogne and the landing geographyNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/74:56Maneuver and supply after landingChapter
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/713:08Transports under coastal warningChapter
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/713:45Martello towers threaten the landing's supply boatsNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/715:05Breakout battles trigger British mobilizationNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy1:37Suez and Britain's route back eastNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy3:09Clearing Axis air power from convoy routesNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy3:31How the Regia Marina constrained BritainNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy5:46Turning the Mediterranean into a movement zoneNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy8:49Why advancing in Italy mattered in AsiaNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy10:34A possible invasion of Japan and the supply build-upNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy14:36Churchill's motive beyond MussoliniNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy7:16Camperdown's captures and the limits of prize valueNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...12:32Rebuilding Illustrious's air group after the attackNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19402:23A County-class cruiser beside armour bound for AlexandriaNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:43:11The logistical case for a British 15-inch/45 gunQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:44:46A battleship-caliber Gatling gun multiplies the wrong machineryQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail13:47Why frigates were not disposable warshipsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail46:18How long a sailing frigate could remain at seaQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:33:45Why Spanish treasure fleets had to land at CadizQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:00:37What actually determined a frigate's speedQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)13:24Fortifications, sea routes, and military logisticsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)23:53Colonial railways feeding maritime extractionNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Summary - Long Patrol P14/140:14Castles as combined powerChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Summary - Long Patrol P14/147:46Royal castles matched royal threatsNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Summary - Long Patrol P14/1414:46Garrisons as the weak pointNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Summary - Long Patrol P14/1429:37Ports, markets, and local stabilityChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Summary - Long Patrol P14/1440:42A maritime tradition of British fortificationChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Beaumaris Castle - Long Patrol P13/1411:39Dock, town wall, and the Menai StraitChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Beaumaris Castle - Long Patrol P13/1417:25Rebellion, workforce, and costChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1411:23Harlech's lost maritime edgeChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1417:00Building defensible walls in 1283Chapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1423:21Harlech's 1294 siege and Irish sea supplyNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1424:48Welsh troops and Irish supply networksNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1431:25A coastal chain supplied by seaNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Conwy Castle - Long Patrol P11/141:36Conwy's maritime castle planChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Conwy Castle - Long Patrol P11/149:05Seasonal labor through Chester and the seaNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Conwy Castle - Long Patrol P11/1410:54Sea supply breaks the 1294-95 siegeChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Conwy Castle - Long Patrol P11/1417:43River crossing, mountain route, and sea supplyChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Conwy Castle - Long Patrol P11/1418:59Carving a castle from the coastal ridgeNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1416:03Reading Caernarfon's plan and building sequenceChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1419:09A fortified town for political integrationNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1420:19Town, castle, and sea supplyNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1422:38Menai geography and the 1282-83 warChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1429:31Construction logistics for a royal townChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1436:20A costly castle still left unfinishedNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Caernarfon Castle - Long Patrol P10/1448:53Measuring Gwynedd's resistance in proportionNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Denbigh Castle - Long Patrol P9/1422:52Rhuddlan makes Denbigh maritimeNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Aberystwyth Castle - Long Patrol P8/1414:31Natural harbour and defensive geographyNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/148:05Flint, Rhuddlan, and Cinque Ports supplyChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/1410:43Amadeus of Savoy relieves Rhuddlan in 1282Chapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/1411:55Dry moats, flooded ground, and protected dockingNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Rhuddlan Castle - Long Patrol P6/1417:29A fortified hub supplied from the seaNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Hawarden Castle - Long Patrol P5/140:36Hawarden Castle and River Dee resupplyChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Hawarden Castle - Long Patrol P5/146:47How Hawarden and Flint controlled Dee crossingsChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Hawarden Castle - Long Patrol P5/148:26Night tides and relief of a siege at HawardenNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/141:07Flint Castle on the River DeeChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/144:39Flint's builders and protected harbourChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/146:25Shotwick and cross-Dee reliefNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/147:51Flint's donjon and independent sea supplyChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/1414:39Why Edward I entered North Wales at FlintNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Master James St George - Long Patrol P3/1412:28Sea-supplied castles as occupation deterrenceNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Introduction - Long Patrol P1/146:07Castles as tools of sea powerChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Introduction - Long Patrol P1/147:37Maritime resupply changes the siege calculusNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Introduction - Long Patrol P1/149:13Sea power needs a secure base ashoreNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Introduction - Long Patrol P1/1416:52The Tower of London as a water-access precedentNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Introduction - Long Patrol P1/1418:47Coastal castles as control and deterrenceChapter
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Introduction - Long Patrol P1/1419:34A small garrison turns siege into a raceNotable Point
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live52:55Why the Allies chose the Marianas over RabaulQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live55:53An Anaconda strategy against JapanNotable Point
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:01:54Japan began a naval war without its support systemQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:19:41Tankers as the constraint on a larger Pearl Harbor operationQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live2:13:20Japanese formations converged from separate basesNotable Point
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live2:38:50Tanker losses cut Japanese fleet mobilityNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books5:14The Anaconda Plan as a model of economic attritionNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books57:30Why captured modern warships are hard to useQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:31:38Why San Diego was a harder Japanese targetQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:35:19The tanker fleet behind a larger Pearl Harbor operationQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:49:39Why occupying Darwin would not mean conquering AustraliaNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-195611:04Cavour gun caliber pits logistics against moraleNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:47:53French sea lift preserved the Serbian ArmyNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:26:45How does Rear Admiral Guépratte rate as a commander?Q&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)23:10Compound engines, triple expansion, and coal enduranceNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)35:48Tryon's exercises and independent commandChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)40:38Tryon's 1888 blockade breakoutChapter
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:35:33A TA culture at Dogger BankNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)57:29Saipan triggers the fleet battleChapter
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:09:40Bomb stocks limit the next morning's optionsNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:27:53Taiho's torpedo and damage control failureNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:32:36Mitscher's long-range strike and night recoveryChapter
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:36:04Why the strike hit Japanese oilers firstNotable Point
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17831:24:33Rodney's first relief turns supply into naval victoryChapter
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17831:37:00Darby's second relief defeats the starvation strategyChapter
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:05:28Did the Royal Navy bombard the siege lines?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:20:59Howe's final relief leaves Gibraltar too strong to forceChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron25:33Union river ironclads and industrial logisticsNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.40:25Why long merchant voyages did not always mean scurvyQ&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.45:15Could crews grow fresh food aboard ship?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:47:59Did East Indiamen protect rope against theft?Q&A
- Blockade7:31Why Confederate transport and industry favored the Anaconda PlanChapter
- Blockade37:52Trade dependence determines how quickly blockade bitesNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword21:46The command infrastructure behind D-Day fire supportQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword52:04Why sustainment mattered as much as the landingQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword58:09Why one Mulberry harbour survived the Channel stormQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:15:54Why LSTs were central to D-Day logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:16:53Could Bismarck have escaped with fuel and radio silence?Q&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:24:19Why the Pacific advance had to pass through more islandsQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:37:55Why the shortest Channel crossing was not the best naval approachQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class12:34Reliable machinery gave Gorgon near-cruising speed enduranceNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class22:48The 1918 offensive joined production, radios, and close fire supportNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)15:03Gun-calibre increments and shell-handling constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)26:09Compatibility among 13.5-inch ammunition typesQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)34:34Why the US Navy retained triple-expansion enginesQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:14:53Fuel quality behind German trial speedsNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:21:56Where British battleship materials came fromQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:22:32The petroleum equivalent of Welsh steam coalQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:43:21Why larger guns reduced barrel countQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19144:30Why Russian conquests could not easily cure German shortagesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191413:46The fiscal case for larger British gunsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19117:39Kongo's 14-inch battlecruiser logicNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191116:59Kaiser class and Germany's coal constraintChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December19:00The logistics of leaving the 12-inch gun standardNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)14:07Capital defense exposes command and logistics failuresNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)21:19Acclamator and Venator show balanced force projectionChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:26:03Does the Lucrehulk make a good carrier?Q&A
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:45:53Crew size becomes a two-year logistics problemNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:20:42Nebula and Endurance distribute combat power across a hull familyChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:29:05Do hyperdrive-equipped rebel fighters still need carriers?Q&A
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:30:42Surplus Venators could turn rebel bases into mobile formationsNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:34:42Providence class combines aviation, missiles, and long enduranceChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:39:15How should a Venator group provide deep maintenance?Q&A
- Some More Battle Cruisers16:42Hood's range signals a global missionNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History57:45The American Revolution as a global naval warChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:15:28A 1982 Falklands task force in 1941 MalayaQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:28:36Winter limits, Atlantic trade, and the road to the Glorious First of JuneChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:07:28Ark Royal's planned refit versus wartime urgencyNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:16:26Why a long Queen Elizabeth deployment can be a work-upQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:29:59Battle damage, fog, and the approach to 1 JuneChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 39:28Force K and the geography of Axis supplyChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 217:21Why convoy JW 51B had to be protectedChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 121:00Operation Irregular targets Japanese island logisticsChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail11:27How sailing ships reached ports far upriverQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail17:22Naval history as national historyChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail48:40Orders to distant stations traveled at the speed of shipsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail49:40Hemp was a constant demand; copper was a critical investmentQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail52:10Fresh water set an age-of-sail ship's rangeQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail57:37Climate and landfalls shaped early Atlantic routesQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail1:39:23The Royal Navy's slow buildup in the War of 1812Chapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:35:23Aircraft carriers move rearming capacity forwardQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:36:47A four-ship force can sustain one deployed shipQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:47:01Surviving an Indian Ocean hurricane under sailChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:10:10Why Britain sourced escort carriers from North AmericaQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:37:20Fuel, not battleship speed, limited pursuit after MidwayQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?18:21Why oak and teak were prized for wooden warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?32:11Turning a container ship into an ASW helicopter platformQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?33:41How a NATO reserve fleet might preserve Cold War warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:04:52Why HMS Unicorn remained a one-ship experimentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:29:58Redeploying a dominant Royal Navy toward Japan in 1942Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:50:15When a warship becomes a cargo carrierQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190726:50Maintainability slows the transition from engines to turbinesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 34: A Special Place4:49The human strain of wartime minesweepingChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:09:46Georg von Trapp takes U-5 into the AdriaticChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:31:25Operation Tabarin and Britain's Antarctic security logicQ&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History4:15Why infrastructure and merchant shipping belong in war historyNotable Point
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History33:26The journey of supplies belongs in war historyNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval21:12Royal expeditions mobilized hundreds of merchant shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval22:08Requisition placed a heavy burden on merchant shipownersChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval28:36Did a sixteen-horse transport also carry equipment and feed?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval44:03Were animals used to handle cargo aboard ships?Q&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:37:19Were Tribal-class destroyers refitted in American yards?Q&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:51:00How a nineteenth-century gunboat was winterizedQ&A
- Four Random Books 32: Medieval6:23Acre, Venice, and the maritime foundations of crusader powerChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:40:53Disease finished the Jamaica campaignNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy43:13Could 40 mm pom-poms and Bofors guns share ammunition?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy1:50:56Whelp towed the damaged submarine ShakespeareNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)23:46Handling destroyer torpedoes at seaChapter
- Bruships 44: Strategy43:04From tactical action to geostrategic supplyChapter
- Bruships 44: Strategy50:08Fleet auxiliaries encode a navy's operating doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy52:32Convoy strategy is a problem of usable throughputNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy53:17A fleet without loss capacity is strategically brittleNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy55:54A logistics network is useful only while its links remain secureNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:53:08An inland campaign could depend on a maritime supply routeNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:46:51A nuclear carrier would still face a conventional logistics clockQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:49:12Could alcohol keep HMS Nelson's boilers running in 1805?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:38:37Malta-based submarines disrupted supplies to North AfricaNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers11:07Cruiser needs differed by theaterChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers35:10Why older ships remained in the Far EastNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers38:02Far Eastern escorts followed speed and cargoQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation22:17Why fewer aircraft types simplify carrier logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation48:31The V-22's carrier logistics tradeoffQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation1:17:15What a modern merchant escort carrier would requireQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:26:25The aging logistics ships behind a British carrier groupQ&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies25:41Korea's peninsula made naval logistics essentialNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies39:08Coastal shipping as an industrial advantageChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:08:43Sea lanes before railwaysNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:07:39Pungdo, Kowshing, and the lost brigadeChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:23:44Pyongyang and amphibious convergenceChapter
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans19:16Conte di Cavour as a Mediterranean battleshipChapter
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:35:27How coal-and-oil combination firing workedQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:44:34American battleship range and coaling stationsQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:45:20Why navies moved from coal to oilQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans3:03:58Geography decides an Italian-South American contestQ&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease15:22A Falklands dock could have transformed South Atlantic maintenanceNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease25:00Norwegian control opened a reliable North Sea routeNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease35:38Weihaiwei anchored the forward convoy planNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland16:50Uganda's 30-knot escort of RMS Queen MaryNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland39:47HMS Newfoundland from Sicily to Japan's surrenderChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda39:42Gambia and Bermuda carry relief to ZakynthosNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya17:23Crete changes ammunition policy and exposes command delayNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya23:40Force K prepares the Spitsbergen and Arctic convoy routeChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 2 Fiji to Kenya34:09Kenya's pink camouflage and Arctic convoy serviceChapter
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...53:00Von Spee's Falklands attack as a desperate coal gambleNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:08:25Should von Spee have driven the whole squadron into Port Stanley?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:09:52Why concentrate helicopters on a carrier when escorts also carry them?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:14:32Why Germany could neither hold nor safely withdraw its overseas squadronQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...2:24:03General messing and central dining were different changesQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers58:22HMS Fiji and the anti-aircraft ammunition crisis at CreteChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers58:28Operation Tiger brought Fiji and supplies to the Mediterranean FleetNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:09:38Captured Italian guns became improvised Royal Navy air defenseNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:10:29Why couldn't cruisers redistribute anti-aircraft ammunition at Crete?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:15:08Operation Gauntlet evacuated Spitsbergen and denied its fuel to GermanyNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:03:02Uganda's Atlantic escort at 30 knotsNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:45:48Why naval offense depends on defended bases and supply linesNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments11:12How readiness could have changed TsushimaQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments11:51How the Russian squadron resupplied en routeQ&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy7:29The Soviet Northern Fleet combines scale with serious constraintsChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy21:48Channel convoys and North Sea ports face repeated mine-layingChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:12:00Drake's Pelican and the logistics of an oceanic raidChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:17:31Drake, Doughty, and command cohesion at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:02:41A Five Eyes task group for the South China SeaQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:14:55Why a cheaper new P-3 could cost more than extra P-8sQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:58:51Why vertical-launch missiles are hard to reload at seaQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:21:33Why ammunition capacity does not simply mean bigger shipsQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:42:28Civilian expertise, dockyard accountability, and defence economicsChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P3/6 19043:13Fear and false reports aboard the Baltic FleetChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P3/6 190414:47How close Dogger Bank came to a wider warChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 178122:39Why naval institutions mattered in France and the NetherlandsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:08:50Atlantic shipping losses, escort growth and U-boat crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:13:38Atlantic blockade, morale and Britain's food supplyNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:40:00Fast attack craft versus corvettesQ&A
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 325:56Japanese expansion competes with anti-piracy patrolsChapter
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 128:08HMS Hawkins turned presence into earthquake reliefNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East45:07When did Singapore become a proper naval base?Q&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East52:12Why did smaller carriers remain on the China Station?Q&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:23:48What limited wartime naval repair in India?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet33:20Why sixteen ships sailed together but eighteen took partNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet36:26Can soft power turn a navy into a global force?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet49:23Why the fleet's cruisers and destroyers did not complete the voyageNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet52:21British colliers made logistics a diplomatic endorsementNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet1:23:46How did the fleet stay white during a global voyage?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet2:10:33Crew comfort, automation, and damage-control manpowerQ&A
- The Great White Fleet2:15:15Prestige mission, diplomatic signal, and operational testNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32211:28Walrus procurement, Commonwealth logistics, and rugged designChapter
- Four Random Books 21: Raiding1:40Arctic convoy cargo losses and political riskNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream6:37Engineering substitutions and the torpedo flotilla's short legNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream34:15A world voyage as a fleet-wide engineering trialNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:23:59Pegasus and the logistics of building replacement fightersNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered52:04Carrier aircraft replacement depth versus battleship repairNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)41:18Water transport connects Britain's early industrial economyNotable Point
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)1:11:01Fleet lists reveal Stromboli's communications and logisticsChapter
- Battle of Stromboli (8th of January 1676...that's 345yrs ago tomorrow)2:27:41Graf Zeppelin needed a balanced raider task forceChapter
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys33:03Wartime fuel oil and naval machinery lessonsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 7: Conclusion24:35Graf Zeppelin's crated-aircraft storage problemNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties38:07Treaty limits reveal carriers as strategic assetsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction34:43The carrier as a mobile aerodrome and support systemNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...4:04:39Axis naval flak and Japan's missing mid-range weaponQ&A
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships21:27Centurion combines cruising endurance with a dense secondary batteryNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships22:05Coal turns global presence into constant maintenanceNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships29:58Astraea's range supports worldwide cruiser serviceNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context27:07Maritime powers depend on sea lift in ways land powers do notNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books5:26A 2009 concept for a large amphibious support shipChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:25:30The 1934 case for aircraft-carrying airshipsNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:33:26Why an airship carrier fails the sustainment testQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:38:40When battleship growth undermined harbour accessChapter
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol18:02Why distant stations still valued paddle frigatesNotable Point
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol25:08Why the Gordon Relief Expedition relied on paddle steamersChapter
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol27:24Melik turned control of the Nile into operational powerChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192038:22USS Sapelo and the logistics of global reachChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192045:46Why auxiliary status could open neutral portsQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192059:37The Pacific range problem for Japanese destroyersQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:12:42Could coal ease Japan's wartime fuel shortage?Q&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:29:16How Britain compensated for limited domestic oilQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora34:07Why Germany drew British attention before it had a large fleetQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora48:02Mixed ammunition burdens encouraged gun standardizationQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora57:02How Britain watched and supplied the Great White FleetQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora1:55:03A Star Wars cruiser illustrates mission fit and logisticsNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:09:24Why the Royal Navy later moved away from 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:34:44Why carrying big guns inside ocean liners was impracticalNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History40:59How command monitors meal quality at seaQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History51:30Officer and sailor rations in Nelson's navyNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History55:05Who cooked a sailors' mess's rations in Nelson's navy?Q&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:08:43Limits on Argentine A-4 basing in the FalklandsNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:30:59Landing craft and tankers as the limits on Allied options in 1943Notable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:00:14The Battle of the Atlantic as a logistics warChapter
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:35:47Ammunition flow limits practical warship armamentQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War49:50Why paddle wheels were easier to repair afloatQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War1:04:52Sultana, USS Cairo, and Civil War river powerChapter
- Paddle Ships at War1:16:17The American Civil War as a river warChapter
- Paddle Ships at War1:28:24Why steam boilers depended on fresh waterQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War1:50:07Kitchener uses the Nile as a protected supply flankChapter
- Paddle Ships at War2:46:28What a U-boat Mississippi raid would demandNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy8:40Why late 1942 changed a warship's survival oddsNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy18:15What a presence warship needs beyond weaponsChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War18:59Manchester links an isolated Nicobar anchorage to the empireNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…42:20HMS Nubian reached the Eastern Fleet ahead of scheduleNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…44:04Dockyard limits constrained five-turret cruiser layoutsNotable Point
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?22:12Why the fuel pumping station matteredQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:09:41The Japanese Navy's unsustainable all-out opening effortNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:19:14Why the Royal Navy could not concentrate on the Eastern Fleet in 1942Chapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:28:37Were fast liners effectively submarine-proof?Q&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:10:56Why convoy protection cannot be improvised overnightNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:38:27Why Japan could not repeat Russia's 1905 voyage against BritainQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:45:48Cape Spartivento judged by convoy resultsNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:52:47Edinburgh and Belfast's Far East enduranceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions7:58Greek evacuation convoy complexity and the Scottish Prince rescueChapter
- Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"1:55Light fleet carriers lead Britain's Korean War air effortChapter
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"14:00Carrier landings, maintenance, and usable air-group strengthNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol36:48Mediterranean carrier attrition drained the Far East planNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond5:16Taranto strikes fuel, prestige, and protected watersNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond56:09Taranto was one operation in a global warNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"26:14How Crimean War gunboats could reach the Great LakesNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:11:11A hot Virginius Affair and Spain's logistical problemQ&A
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,38:38British destroyers strike the Narvik forceChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,41:49Warspite's third battle and an unseized portChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 2 of 3: Fleet Air Arm's Finest Hour57:23Bombing the seaplane base damages aircraft supportNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)27:49The scale of the Anglo-French task forceNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)47:57The canal, imperial logistics, and American primacyChapter
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark1:38:33Armoured carrier design trades air-group size for survivabilityNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American4:47War Plan Orange and the Pacific logistics problemNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American6:09War Plan Orange and the exposed fleet trainNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:00:49Fuel safety and manpower delayed escort-carrier serviceChapter
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation2:18:10Invincible mobilizes for the FalklandsChapter
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:14:43Caspar John on what an aircraft carrier containsChapter
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/223:42Magazine depth across repeated missile attacksNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/257:25Civilian infrastructure is part of naval readinessChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard35:45Why steam cruisers still carried sailing rigsNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)6:57Why the Orlandos operated independentlyQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)15:40A long-range class without a known machinery flawQ&A
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/411:45Force K and the struggle to keep Malta suppliedChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:04:13Manning a French fleet in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:13:46What worked-up French ships might change in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:33:47Why Britain would not buy an interned Graf SpeeQ&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:43:16Could V-2 rockets have gone to sea?Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:45:38Why a loaned battleship strained Soviet maintenanceQ&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2225:25Why submarines struggled to obey prize rulesNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2237:20King George V gun and turret compromisesNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:29:39U-boat landing and supply boats were easily damagedNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:41:31Ise and Hyuga gained flight decks but not air groupsNotable Point
- Legacy of Trafalgar Part 2/2 - Lord Nelson16:43Copenhagen and control of the BalticNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy49:14Why British prizes often lost gunsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:54:54Why towing Pola home was not worth the riskQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty27:32Why Suez Was Outgrown Without Panama-Style ExpansionNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty45:03Suez and the “East of Suez” ProblemQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty1:28:21The Suez Fleet and Its Logistical TailChapter
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty1:36:58Mine Warfare and Repair Support at SuezQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty1:38:31Merchant Ships Taken Up from TradeNotable Point
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk9:00Why the East Mole became an evacuation lifelineNotable Point
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk10:27Why committing destroyers to Dunkirk was a strategic riskNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus1:41Speed and the limits of coal enduranceNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol13:46Age-of-Sail sloops as the fleet's working networkNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 3: HMAS Geranium1:05Range and coal in a 1,250-ton sloopNotable Point
- The World According to the Royal Navy of the 1930s - 4 minutes3:13Economic warfare beyond the fleet battleChapter
- Blackburn R.1 Blackburn - 4 Minute Video0:59Dart components simplified Fleet Air Arm sparesChapter
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:18:20Shared parts versus a genuinely multirole carrier aircraftQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:11:51Why a wooden warship needed valued tradesmenQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:30:30Brassey's on merchant shipping after the First World WarNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol5:46An alliance cheaper than a Far East fleetNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol25:54The fragile strength of the East Asia SquadronChapter
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol38:39Why getting the crews home matteredNotable Point
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol43:43Emden's surprise attack at PenangChapter
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview18:18Why an early Dardanelles blockade could not stop the invasionNotable Point
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview23:02Why valuable Crete could not feed the invading armyNotable Point
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview23:42Tactical victories still leave the Ottoman army suppliedNotable Point
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview29:01Winter sailing defeats a seasonal blockadeNotable Point
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview37:46Francesco Morosini restores aggressive supply interdictionChapter
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview43:44Tenedos and Lemnos tighten the grip on the straitsNotable Point
- Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview47:27Candia's twenty-one-year siegeChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:01:33Coastal convoys keep Britain's war economy movingChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:25:04Dog Boats received high-octane aviation fuelQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul2:14:44Coastal forces keep D-Day sea lanes openChapter
- 2 Minutes: HMS Rutherford0:35HMS Rutherford's speed and escort enduranceNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: Force K a quick summary0:52Raiding shipping as economic and logistics warfareNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: Force K a quick summary1:35How Force K magnified the North Africa supply burdenNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style24:06Turning convoy losses into a North African advantageChapter
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style50:40Malta and the North African logistics decisionChapter
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?39:00Close-range damage and the pursuit of Graf SpeeNotable Point
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers29:26Spares and workshops become a combat constraintNotable Point
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers1:28:49Withdrawal, repair, and the cost of remaining in actionNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car25:28Why fast minelayers mattered at MaltaQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car27:06Malta's facilities were strong; fuel was the weak pointQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car55:48Why surface raiders could disrupt whole convoysNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:12:52How exploited Libyan oil might have changed the naval warQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:18:51Why Duisburg mattered beyond the ships sunkNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:43:53Was destroying an entire convoy unusual for Force K?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:51:03When merchant losses pushed supplies onto warshipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:33Could Germany have used an unscuttled French fleet?Q&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:49:24Testing Napoleon's view of naval commandNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:02:43The Royal Navy's difficulty in a technological transitionQ&A
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/319:21Why Germany prioritised loaded eastbound shipsNotable Point
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/35:19Operation Torch as a convoy-system achievementNotable Point
- Introduction to Crete 194136:03HMS Formidable reveals the fleet's supply strainNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:31:01British money, Chinese forces, and a land warNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:44:04A blockade, not an invasion, as the likely war aimNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:55:33Redeploying the Pacific fleet through SuezNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:03:12Amphibious ships do not create an armyQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:15:17One amphibious ship cannot move 60,000 troopsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 424:58Global war and the Royal Navy's competing schoolsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...21:56Singapore as a concentrated defensive positionChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 44:00How imperial refits could send German raiders eastNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 445:56Resources, fuel, and a war economyNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 43:27Germany weighs attacks on supply convoys to Britain and SingaporeNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 42:20Real war consumption exceeds exercise assumptionsChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 429:49Wartime service consumes hull and machinery lifeNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 439:30A nominally neutral America as a Pacific supply baseNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 442:14American supply convoys create a German strategic dilemmaNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 438:32Italian units, command failures, and fuelNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 449:39Mediterranean sea control protects the Suez routeChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 454:39Far Eastern munitions and the Cape delayNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 455:42Ammunition consumption and the friction of warNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 459:41Submarines and bases for a Mediterranean counteroffensiveNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A22:16Taranto, diversion, and the centrality of logisticsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A59:37The ammunition condition behind a Falklands VanguardQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:51:16How container ports complicate wartime convoy logisticsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:21:57Artificial islands as regional maritime pressureQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:42:43The logistics problem of reinforcing remote territoriesQ&A
- 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 - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...11:02Logistics and carrier lessons at seaNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...19:17Supplying a drive toward ShanghaiChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...20:17Italian troops under allied logisticsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...30:13Building Pacific dockyards across the coalitionNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 429:43Matching fleet command to theatre logisticsNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 441:31Sea, road, and river supply routes into ChinaNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 434:37Singapore as the theatre command and logistics hubChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald21:30Atlantic weather exposed the cost of the tropical disguiseNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:59:38RIM-116 logistics versus a Phalanx upgrade pathQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:17:04Onboard workshops and distant deploymentsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:20:59What weapons can Royal Navy ships carry for landing parties?Q&A
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean22:25Deck-gun calibre as a fleet logistics problemNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean51:43Why Allied cargoes often bypassed the MediterraneanNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean52:08Submarine warfare as North African logistics pressureChapter
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean57:36Malta's 10th Submarine FlotillaNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean1:12:31Submarine pressure in the North African campaignChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 219:13Medina Sidonia inherits an amphibious operationChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 229:26The Armada's 130 ships mask an uneven invasion forceNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 28:19France, Crete and the Royal Navy's supply dilemmaNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 25:34Submarines and the Axis supply warChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:26:00Why Merlin can cover roles an Osprey fleet would complicateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:29:34Semi-submersibles as an isolated-resupply optionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:11How the Panama Canal shapes Pacific naval logisticsQ&A
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.12:25The Peninsular War’s maritime supply systemChapter
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.18:45Maritime mobility made Wellington’s campaign viableNotable Point
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.38:01Carrier air and sea logistics in KoreaNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4323:59Trade routes and food logistics made the Indian Ocean vitalChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4358:17Fuel stocks and hidden bases sustained eastern operationsQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:00:36Mobile naval air bases extended carrier maintenance overseasQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:53:30Force D and an improvised harbor at British SomalilandNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)30:34Italian submarines and the limits of forward basingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A38:11Why Britain and America did not need submarine trade routesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A45:10Why a cruiser could beat submarines for an urgent cargoNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:16:03Why Royal Marines still need amphibious accessQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:01:43Amphibious warfare needs ships as well as MarinesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:01How apparently attractive design choices can cripple a navyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:25:19The cost of inheriting German warships after the First World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:28:37A Channel Tunnel in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:47:11Small amphibious ships need larger supply ships nearbyNotable Point
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"29:54Sea-based logistics and the host nation's burdenNotable Point
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"35:42A maintenance network for forward presenceNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A40:24When navies most shaped economy and cultureQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:12Naval timber shaped Britain’s forestsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:31Von Spee's narrow options after CoronelQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:55:05Age-of-sail logistics without reliable schedulesQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You12:51HMS Unicorn as aviation support infrastructureNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You57:35D-class variation multiplied the support burdenNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:10:10The refit problem: useful ships cannot be sparedNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)9:24Supermarine Walrus: common engines and flexible rolesNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P4/4 Post WWII2:13Martin Mars: exceptional flying-boat lift capacityNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)6:49Supermarine Walrus: one aircraft, many naval jobsNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P2/4 Inter-War12:40The Kawanishi H6K's multirole reachNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P2/4 Inter-War38:55Flying boats as capability as well as necessityChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?8:15Why stored ammunition and mines outlast old hullsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?13:46Armour plate and optics as a reserve of industrial capacityNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?42:20Ammunition dumps must be safe, concealed, and reachableNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?47:45Royal Naval Air Service logistics as an operational advantageNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:18:45Keep the six-inch guns, not every old cruiser hullQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:49:18Interwar stockpiling was already extensiveQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:54:43Spare hull sections and fittings can shorten repairsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?2:03:11When the Royal Navy became predominantly oil-firedQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?2:04:06Why the Royal Navy would not retain High Seas Fleet shipsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?4:49Stockpiling complete light-gun systemsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?8:11Imperial naval bases as dispersed reserve depotsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?11:54Mine reserves make minelayers usefulNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?12:46Harbour craft as a base for amphibious capabilityNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A22:00Why global power needs a fleetQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:39:08Why India ranks as a major regional naval powerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:21:32Modern shipping's convoy shockQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)26:03Free French gun calibres and Allied logisticsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)8:41What the Tribal design bought for its costNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:47:03When ships became less dependent on water importsQ&A
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister17:15Forward-based amphibious shipping and fleet sustainmentNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers21:51Convoy protection as a global logistics systemChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A34:13Official warship loads may differ from combat loadsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A48:48Conversion trades technical difficulty for industrial speedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:06:24Finding plans for the Royal Navy's 1960s fast fleet oilersQ&A
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 27:47A broader hull bought eight hundred more nautical milesNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 224:53When economical cruising speed became a liabilityNotable Point
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 1 of 213:53SMS Emden's costly bombardment of MadrasChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 326:35Midway planning neglected how to sustain the islandNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 327:41A Hawaii counterfactual asks how Japan could shape the US advanceNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 311:14Venice builds maritime security around the ArsenalChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 313:15Venetian galley strength carries a manpower burdenNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 411:03Why a Hill-class trawler complicated a U-boat attackChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 431:51Castle-class corvettes paired long range with SquidChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war25:01Why official small-craft range figures misleadNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:28:09Moving Yamato's turrets exposed an industrial bottleneckQ&A
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 25:45Abdiel-class cruisers beat distance with speed and minesNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 223:14Elco 80-foot PT boats worked best as ambush predatorsNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style0:06Refits connect warships to an Allied industrial networkChapter
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style7:52Victorious's Bombay refit reveals the crew experience of overseas yardsNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style8:15Warspite's machinery reconstruction multiplies enduranceNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style10:50Durban keeps Warspite within the overseas repair networkNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style29:12Durban refits also support South Africa's wartime economyNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style29:47Australia serves as a forward repair hub without full infrastructureNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style30:33Bomber range turns British dockyards into dangerous repair sitesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:43:47NATO logistics doctrine still needs practiced executionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:14:48The Royal Navy supplemented merchant crews in wartime logisticsQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…40:55Wasp and America class amphibious-ship tradeoffsQ&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)23:01HMS Unicorn and forward fleet aviation supportNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 33:33Bruce Fraser: fleet command, logistics, and politicsChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 210:38Percy Noble built the foundations at Western ApproachesChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 116:27Tovey's Allied logistics and Arctic convoy objectionsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:25Why Japan could not solve its wartime production gapQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:21:35Why Britain did not base a major fleet in IndiaQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:22:31How a navy might disable the Panama Canal covertlyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:27:40At-sea replenishment before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:23Why Japan failed to build an effective convoy systemQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:45:20Why the Italian Navy entered the war without carriersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:27Why Japanese surface raiders offered little value by 1944Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:09:47How the Lion class fit Royal Navy operationsQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy37:54The strategic cost of Kongo's oil-fired speedNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:03:56Why wartime acquisitions multiplied Royal Navy gun typesQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy2:01:14The tanker opportunity cost of a modern battlecruiserQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A29:45Royal Navy basing in wartime AustraliaNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A50:25Comparing wartime underway replenishmentQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A40:45Why Britain left carrier catapults behindQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie14:37British and American interwar carrier experimentsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie24:14Operation C and Somerville's missed night battleChapter
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:19:19Formidable at Crete: resilient ship, exhausted air groupNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:24:21Dale-class fleet oilers and an escort-carrier compromiseNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A26:03HMS Unicorn combined aviation support with light-carrier operationsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A48:09Why steam did not free navies from geographyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:49:56Why two British carriers did not justify nuclear propulsionQ&A
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-19216:30How Tsushima accelerated HMS DreadnoughtNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?24:01Endurance for global convoy escortChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:17:04Imperial range shaped British sloop designQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!17:24HMS Unicorn and a globally supported carrier fleetChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!36:09Armor as an answer to distant-war logisticsChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!38:12Why American yards could not solve every British Pacific repair problemQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!55:53Why Unicorn resembled a Tribal-class design solutionQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck7:25Why Tribal destroyers could keep pace in rough weatherQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck22:04How many torpedoes a Tribal destroyer could carryQ&A
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)4:20Naval depot ships sustained destroyer fire supportNotable Point
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)4:23Ammunition shortages leave German destroyers nearly emptyChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full2:08Altmark's hidden role behind Admiral Graf SpeeChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full34:26Why Norway's merchant fleet mattered to Allied logisticsNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream11:23What galleys reveal about destroyer missionsNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream24:44Daring-class size and the postwar presence missionChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video13:47Pan-American neutrality and Uruguayan politics trap Graf SpeeChapter
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile9:36Why new technology does not simply replace shipsNotable Point
- HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile12:05How limited overseas infrastructure shaped Royal Navy deploymentChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video4:05Graf Spee's silent passage frustrates the British searchChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video43:04Damage threatens an isolated raider even when it survives the battleNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:32:51Cruiser movements and repairs shape the River Plate concentrationChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:45:28The South Atlantic campaign accelerates fleet-auxiliary planningChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:47:11Graf Spee reveals Germany's missing raider support systemChapter
- Day 3 of the Montevideo Diplomatic Battle, the 16th of December 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video2:06Langsdorff prepares for Uruguay's deadlineChapter
- Day 3 of the Montevideo Diplomatic Battle, the 16th of December 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video5:45Ajax and Achilles refuel while ammunition runs shortChapter
- Day 3 of the Montevideo Diplomatic Battle, the 16th of December 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video6:03Ark Royal approaches the River Plate at more than 30 knotsNotable Point
- Montevideo on the 14th December 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video7:48Graf Spee turns to improvised labor and Argentinian tugboatsChapter
- Arado AR 196 - 12th of December - A River Plate 80 Video3:19Ammunition and escape constraints at River PlateNotable Point
- SS Streonhalh; the Last Victim of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:02Why SS Streonhalh was a valuable prizeChapter
- Altmark Last Meeting with the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:01Altmark as Graf Spee's logistics and prisoner hubChapter
- Altmark Last Meeting with the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video1:36The last Altmark and Graf Spee rendezvousNotable Point
- Altmark Last Meeting with the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video3:00Why auxiliaries create global naval reachChapter
- Altmark Last Meeting with the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video4:16Balancing combat strength with logisticsNotable Point
- Altmark Last Meeting with the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video5:01German logistics in the South Atlantic campaignChapter
- SS Doric Star - A River Plate 80 Video0:29Doric Star as a costly prize for Admiral Graf SpeeChapter
- Rendezvous with the Altmark - A River Plate 80 Video1:22Altmark provides supplies for Graf Spee's disguisesChapter
- Rendezvous with the Altmark - A River Plate 80 Video2:23Altmark takes prisoners and perhaps more weaponsNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)5:08Merchant shipping, naval commands, and a mechanized armyNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)29:54Steel flight decks and the logistics of overseas carrier repairNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)40:17Fuel stockpiles, Singapore, and the infrastructure of Far East warNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)46:12Home commands and the overlooked coastal convoy warChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)49:06Fleet-train ambitions versus merchant-shipping demandsNotable Point
- The 1939 Panama Convention - A River Plate 80 Video2:03Neutral ports become a strategic problem for surface raidersNotable Point
- The 1939 Panama Convention - A River Plate 80 Video4:49British bases preserve Royal Navy reach near the River PlateNotable Point
- RN Commands in 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video3:37Reinforcing the Far East took time and resupplyNotable Point