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Officer Selection

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  1. What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?
    29:19Senior rank can preserve institutional talent without high commandNotable Point
  2. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    25:01Why destroyer service produced senior naval leadersNotable Point
  3. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    1:52:07Naval Secretary and the Navy's senior cultureChapter
  4. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    32:24Why family connections do not explain repeated independent commandNotable Point
  5. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    49:22How early command can disrupt promotion plansNotable Point
  6. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    50:59Can an officer work within a system and command independently?Q&A
  7. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    31:31Why naval patronage still required competenceNotable Point
  8. Admiral Rodney: One of the shoulders that raised up Horatio Nelson... Naval History Live!
    3:06:32Rodney's patronage reaches Nelson and his own young sonNotable Point
  9. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    49:21How elite destroyer identity reinforced command standardsNotable Point
  10. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    3:03:06Did Town-class cruisers receive the best captains?Q&A
  11. Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...
    23:17Political attacks on Battenberg's Dreadnought appointmentChapter
  12. Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...
    32:20Choosing an executive officer amid attacks on nationalityChapter
  13. Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...
    42:17Battenberg's entry medical certificate debateNotable Point
  14. Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...
    1:27:43War Staff personnel and political compromiseNotable Point
  15. Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?
    1:36:58Why cautious submarine captains could fail in wartimeQ&A
  16. Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation
    41:20The limits of selecting future officers at age twelveChapter
  17. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)
    2:50:36Beatty's choice between Seymour and SomervilleNotable Point
  18. Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era
    1:14:49Why a Mediterranean admiral also needed to be a diplomatNotable Point
  19. Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era
    2:02:09Why Seymour was a poor fit for the Mediterranean stationQ&A