Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Officer Corps

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  1. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:16:48Officer appointments mixed experience arguments with racial assumptionsNotable Point
  2. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:27:30Junior officers led from the frontChapter
  3. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:30:48Funding a unit differed from purchasing a commissionQ&A
  4. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:32:55Reserves supplied experience for a rapidly expanding armyNotable Point
  5. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    2:32:07Would Russian nobles constrain a German Kaiser ruling Russia?Q&A
  6. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:04:04Royal Navy factions persist through patronage and strategyQ&A
  7. Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...
    18:02Political turnover hollows out naval commandChapter
  8. Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...
    22:26Schout-bij-nacht preserves a fleet watchkeeping dutyNotable Point
  9. Vlieter Incident 1799: When the Dutch lost a Fleet to a Conundrum... or a Conspiracy...
    51:43Batavian leaders reinforce failureNotable Point
  10. The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory
    33:34The opposing fleets: French weight versus British depthChapter
  11. The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory
    1:40:28Command depth keeps damaged British ships in actionNotable Point
  12. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    5:42What Royal Navy officer titles originally meantChapter
  13. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    18:42How Imperial Japanese Navy ranks encoded seniorityChapter
  14. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    38:07Dutch officer ranks and the watch kept at the rearChapter
  15. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    48:20What rank systems reveal about naval cultureNotable Point
  16. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    59:59French captain grades tied rank to command experienceNotable Point
  17. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    1:18:20Why the Russian Navy has so many captainsChapter
  18. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    1:37:04Spanish naval ranks preserve Reconquista languageChapter
  19. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    2:07:25Why lieutenants faced high Age of Sail mortalityQ&A
  20. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    2:17:33How naval rank insignia evolveQ&A
  21. Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort
    8:42French institutional memory and Suffren's experienceChapter
  22. Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort
    21:26A fleet without a common officer cultureNotable Point
  23. Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort
    40:57Negapatam exposes a command-accountability crisisNotable Point
  24. Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort
    52:30Suffren's honors, faults, and naval legacyChapter
  25. The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose
    15:47How France lost naval expertise before the coalition warsNotable Point
  26. The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose
    2:02:40Why punishment could not repair divided naval loyaltyNotable Point
  27. The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose
    2:49:37What institutional lesson did the Dutch Navy learn?Q&A
  28. Why Historians are careful with Personal Accounts of events... it's Perspective! #history
    0:58A memoir can preserve evidence of an internal debateNotable Point
  29. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    1:15:15French firepower masks institutional weaknessChapter
  30. Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...
    2:06:29Command depth keeps damaged British ships fightingChapter
  31. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    10:01Joshua Rowley as the Royal Navy's reliable deputyChapter
  32. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    10:37The Rowley family as a naval leadership networkNotable Point
  33. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:00:41Edward Hawke's talent-collecting patronageNotable Point
  34. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:02:49Sarah Rowley and captains' wives as informal shipboard staffNotable Point
  35. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:38:10Experienced captains as the Navy's fleet insuranceNotable Point
  36. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    1:39:31Keppel's high standards created command frictionNotable Point
  37. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    2:02:53Why dependable officers disappear from naval historyNotable Point
  38. Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!
    2:16:08Which Royal Navy family formed the longest admiral dynasty?Q&A
  39. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    25:06Western armies exposed different models of professional commandNotable Point
  40. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    1:15:33The Confederacy lacked commanders who valued administrationNotable Point
  41. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    1:19:53Was the post-1812 U.S. Navy as divided as the Army of Tennessee?Q&A
  42. HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 2
    5:39Career officers and loyal area-defence commandsNotable Point
  43. HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 2
    1:03:43Stockpiling artillery before the officer purgeNotable Point
  44. Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:20:48Broadening military recruitment with fixed standardsNotable Point
  45. Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation
    38:35Postwar personnel losses break German carrier continuityNotable Point
  46. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:35:39Preserving German naval expertise after VersaillesQ&A
  47. Bruships 130: Battleships
    36:37Lower-deck promotion and the Victorian exceptionQ&A
  48. Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back
    9:44Receipts and a pipe reveal Langsdorff's institutional inheritanceNotable Point
  49. Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    5:15Professional disagreement without a personal feudNotable Point
  50. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:12:05Why more money alone could not fix the Revolutionary French NavyQ&A
  51. British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences
    51:37How commanders shaped occupation disciplineQ&A
  52. Glorious First of June (1794)
    54:59Why artillery and engineer officers appealed as army commandersNotable Point
  53. Glorious First of June (1794)
    3:02:07Family networks around Molloy's naval careerNotable Point
  54. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 2
    2:13:23Albuera, officer casualties, and regimental ritualNotable Point
  55. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    39:42Why purchased commissions could still produce wartime officersQ&A
  56. Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-65
    7:41The early Northern Fleet lacked operational depthQ&A
  57. Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine
    25:56Roman decimation was not Stalin's officer purgeNotable Point
  58. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    12:29How regime change weakened the Batavian fleet before CamperdownQ&A
  59. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    37:30Why senior command needs more than combat specializationQ&A
  60. Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation
    9:14Three engineering-officer groups faced different status grievancesChapter
  61. Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation
    30:09Common entry challenged patronage and intensified institutional unrestNotable Point
  62. Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches
    35:02The engineering status crisis behind the reformChapter
  63. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    7:07Why losing five frigates matteredChapter
  64. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:01:53What was the French Navy good at?Q&A
  65. Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)
    17:27Perrée and the French Navy's experience gapChapter
  66. Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)
    40:34Mobilizing hulls without enough commanding officersNotable Point
  67. Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)
    5:32Exams, engineering, and professional selectionNotable Point
  68. Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)
    50:34Fisher's wider officer pool and the meaning of meritNotable Point
  69. Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)
    54:32Two competing visions of Royal Navy reformChapter
  70. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    1:13:20Conscription, volunteers, and wartime naval officersQ&A
  71. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    3:33:35Parole was a logistics and manpower toolNotable Point
  72. The Seven Years War: Proto World War for 20th Century Sea Power Theorists, Long Patrol
    49:55Purchased commissions within a professionalizing armyNotable Point
  73. Sherman's March to the Sea
    6:16How command experience shaped Union performanceNotable Point
  74. Sherman's March to the Sea
    27:48Volunteer ranks complicated command hierarchyNotable Point
  75. Sherman's March to the Sea
    55:48Officer shortages and Jefferson C. Davis's commandNotable Point
  76. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    41:39Spanish quality and French officer attritionChapter
  77. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol
    1:33:16What made Trafalgar decisiveChapter
  78. Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)
    2:54:26Command requires confidence, but defeat recasts it as arroganceNotable Point
  79. Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol
    21:00When a fleet rejects its commanderNotable Point
  80. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten
    5:54Competence and political leadership in the Regia MarinaNotable Point
  81. A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea
    1:37Republican naval command under political suspicionChapter
  82. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    1:59:19Class barriers shaped Imperial Japanese Navy careersQ&A
  83. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?
    51:41Why peacetime promotion slowed the Georgian Royal NavyQ&A
  84. Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans
    3:26:12Could Majestic-class ships have changed 1898?Q&A
  85. The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-1916
    1:39:00Talent and patronage in the Russian officer corpsNotable Point
  86. Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword
    2:14:40Steward service could become a route to a naval commissionNotable Point
  87. Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword
    2:34:33Royal Navy officers were not uniformly aristocraticQ&A
  88. Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword
    2:44:08Royal Navy commissioning from the lower deck did not use a fixed quotaQ&A
  89. Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East
    1:06:18Did wartime exhaustion weaken the postwar officer corps?Q&A
  90. Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 1
    23:54Beauclerk and aristocratic expectations of naval commandNotable Point
  91. The Great White Fleet
    1:18:01Why the US Navy relied on rear admirals for senior commandQ&A
  92. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    2:44:17Engineering officers and the gatekeeping of commandNotable Point
  93. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    20:42Service backgrounds shape operational instinctNotable Point
  94. Introduction to the Battle of Cape Passaro
    11:58Personal ambition and divided advice in both fleetsNotable Point
  95. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    49:00Did the US and Royal Navies value destroyers differently?Q&A