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- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:26Phillips's staff and flagship could have strengthened ABDA commandNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:05Why steady interwar naval research funding matteredNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:09Naval staff priorities after the First World WarQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?0:00Why the Royal Navy needed a modern staffChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?15:29Naval Intelligence became a secretive shadow staffChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?28:37A counterfactual Admiralty Board for 1905Chapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?59:13Briefings mobilize Dominion naval resourcesNotable Point
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off1:11:55Staff training behind joint amphibious operationsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships43:57What an earlier integrated Royal Navy staff might changeQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships43:57An earlier naval staff and the adoption of existing technologyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships44:59Admiralty departments, intelligence workloads, and quality controlNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships49:04Staff qualifications and Beatty's communications appointmentsNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception7:47Operational command over staff apprenticeshipNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception32:41Cunningham raises the Admiralty's operational tempoChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception36:20An Admiralty team built around proven specialistsChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception37:19A fleet commander learns committee warfareChapter
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...1:48Admiral Henderson and the cost of missing successionNotable Point
- Nelson: A Very British God of War...33:45Why flag captains sustain an admiral's commandNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:02:57Hornby demanded a professional naval staffChapter
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence1:07:22What if Hornby's reforms began in 1876?Notable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:20Why replacing Fisher would not guarantee a naval staffQ&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
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?40:52Why informal naval education could not keep pace with mass politicsNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:01:11A proposed Admiralty staff and Sea Lord structureChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:05:11Which ships could the new Admiralty staff influence?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:50:32A unified war plan through the Committee of Imperial DefenceNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:03:24Heavier battlecruisers and specialist staffs in a Dogger Bank-style actionChapter
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:51:47Why Germany's naval staff was less effectiveQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:00:03How the Admiral class changes if Battenberg staysQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:07:51How submarines fit Fisher's conservative strategyQ&A
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction1:03:40Admiralty reorganization disrupted naval intelligenceNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned43:05Theodor Avellan administered without challenging strategyChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?25:20Fast promotion limited Scheer's command developmentChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?1:00:34An admiral must visualize a multidomain battlespaceChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?1:14:40Starfleet's missing staffs expose a real command problemNotable Point
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?1:15:34An admiral turns policy into coordinated fleet effectsChapter
- Britannia Naval College: Evolution of Education & Cradle of Leadership29:31Why naval intelligence was not a general staffNotable Point
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...0:34Why ship-level competence does not scale by itselfChapter
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...3:35Why one Starfleet adjutant cannot replace a fleet staffChapter
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...13:53The missing junior officers behind Sisko's staff workNotable Point
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...19:14The specialists missing from a fleet readiness decisionChapter
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...34:47Why strategic intelligence should reach admirals through their staffsChapter
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...59:48How Royal Navy commodores received staff supportChapter
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...1:01:21Civilian expertise as an informal staff resourceNotable Point
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...1:03:10Why a flagship needs an admiral's command spaceNotable Point
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship29:22Wireless specialists filled a gap in the prewar naval staffNotable Point
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship50:38A squadron flag captain also served as chief of staffChapter
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?21:41The traditional wartime battleship missionNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…55:10Boyne's loss and Jervis's Mediterranean command teamNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...40:36Why the Admiralty resisted a modern naval staffChapter
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...51:45A plausible funding mechanism under the Third Sea LordChapter
- 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...56:15Could an Admiralty staff constrain Fisher?Notable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:51:28Staff power had to remain balanced across the servicesNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live7:09Why a sophisticated civil service delayed a naval staffNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:42:21The captain of the fleet acted as an admiral's chief of staffNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:04:02Hamilton's Admiralty manual anticipates later reformNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:03:50A workable 1900 Admiralty research systemChapter
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:05:30Arthur Wilson and the railway question his office could not answerNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:09:03Why the First Sea Lord lacked a formal staffNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:20:34Could a new First Sea Lord replace the inherited staff?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:21:56How discretionary funds would work inside the AdmiraltyNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:25:43Does a Sea Lord have to be a peer?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:18:49Why did this Admiralty reform not happen?Q&A
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral2:07Horace Hood as the Grand Fleet's battlecruiser commanderNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral30:09Why flagship accommodation was an operational capabilityNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral32:23ABDA had ships from four governments but no common fleet systemNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 425:45Women's long, often informal role in naval communicationsNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:07:29The Royal Navy documented technique but left culture implicitChapter
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:11:27Beatty, Somerville, and the cost of choosing staff by connectionNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:15:15Battle summaries as the Royal Navy's first draft of historyNotable Point
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers53:47Fisher's Baltic idea needed a real staff systemNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:00Army staff work shapes Britain's 1914 strategyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!29:03Why staff work mattered before 1914Chapter
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!36:06Fisher, secrecy, and naval leadership limitsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!41:51Why joint plans cannot be assigned to another serviceNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!44:05Why naval leadership could not redirect Britain in 1914Notable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!48:20Battenberg and the Navy's political influence gapNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!50:09How postings shaped Army and Navy political influenceChapter
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!51:33Interwar staff learning and persistent political assumptionsNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:35:16Why the Admiralty created a formal staff in 1912Q&A
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty25:42Milbourne James and information disciplineChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty34:34Henry Wise Parker's battlecruiser and fleet-staff experienceNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty53:19A staff built to move informationChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:52:27Why Beatty failed to report contact clearlyQ&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:06:29Why Beatty's staff did not challenge himQ&A
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 80:49Fisher's deterrent vision depended on staff workChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 829:19Radio and staff work enabled more fluid fleet tacticsNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?46:10Staff work did not reproduce the isolation of command at seaNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 38:24Wartime experience returns to the design officesNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:37:41Admiral staffs grew from dozens to hundredsQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...9:44Two complementary studies of JutlandNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control37:19Doveton Sturdee and leadership in WhitehallNotable Point
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation8:22How scheme-trained officers carried First World War lessons forwardNotable Point
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation21:28The scheme's colleges and scientific study of warChapter
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation35:18Staff College and Tactical School turn experience into doctrineChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:14:54The missing staff role behind fleet communicationsNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:56:07Corbett, the war course, and a British maritime strategyNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:30:25Q&A: Did Tsushima reform Russian naval leadership?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff7:20Return to the naval staff in wartimeChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff37:55A report helped move Jellicoe toward convoysChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda7:09Why Yonai brought Toyoda into the naval staffNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa3:40Court access and rapid promotionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa5:15From naval education to fleet and aviation commandsChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada6:06A conventional career without a distinctive legacyChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten2:15De Courten's early naval careerChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten3:36Keeping the fleet from scuttling in 1943Chapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:17:31Why Japanese naval chiefs disappear from battle historiesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano5:52How the naval staff could overpower cabinet ministersChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano13:18Why flawed wargames were Nagano's responsibilityNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:02:57Why the Admiralty needed global tracking mapsQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral18:37Testing future fleet and staff leaders before wartimeNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:36:07Contingency planning can test a staff without predicting warNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:55:03Military staffs need historical judgment alongside enthusiasmQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)12:00How a flagship expanded an admiral's working staffNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 111:36Henry Harwood from the River Plate to political commandChapter
- An Introduction to Falklands Command37:19The uncertain provenance of the Falklands command chartNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)32:03China Station's joint command and headquarters burdenNotable Point