Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Operational Planning

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  1. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    25:40Reading the resource commitments behind Britain's Narvik plansNotable Point
  2. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:37:33Why Japan could not add another major operation before MidwayQ&A
  3. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:38:14Why a quiet enemy can signal a major offensiveNotable Point
  4. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:29:33Several probing attacks and reserves behind the successful oneNotable Point
  5. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    0:55Pearl Harbor planning and American carrier exercisesChapter
  6. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    8:18How early did Japan consider a carrier strike on Pearl Harbor?Chapter
  7. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    18:39Onishi's opposition and Yamamoto's resignation threatNotable Point
  8. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    52:49Professional study and the repeated Hawaii warningNotable Point
  9. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    54:15Why American planners discounted the Japanese strikeChapter
  10. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    21:19Fleet Air Arm observers as operational thinkersNotable Point
  11. Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off
    1:11:55Staff training behind joint amphibious operationsChapter
  12. Why Historians are useful for Military & Naval Training?
    1:21Staff rides turn historical cases into amphibious planning questionsNotable Point
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    4:41:31Iwo Jima and the value of a recovery positionQ&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    1:18:32Why AE2's failure would not stop the Gallipoli landingsQ&A
  15. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    0:00Cunningham's command ethic and aversion to wasteChapter
  16. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    25:49Delay exposes Taranto's defences and Eagle's crews reinforce IllustriousNotable Point
  17. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    40:15Team leadership and many simple plansChapter
  18. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    45:42How the Shogo diversion opened the road to SamarChapter
  19. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    1:17:26Taranto as a twenty-year set-piece operationNotable Point
  20. Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada
    18:18Philip II's faith could not replace operational preparationNotable Point
  21. Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada
    1:08:24The Armada's lesson in planning and logisticsNotable Point
  22. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    14:29Learning from Taranto and American exercisesNotable Point
  23. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    36:13Kusaka's air plan and the fleet's separate movement planNotable Point
  24. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    48:05Taranto's wave plan reflected the carriers availableNotable Point
  25. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:07:21The logistical cost of taking more carriers to Pearl HarborNotable Point
  26. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    27:31Japanese planning denied the Americans agencyNotable Point
  27. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    44:38Midway as bait after the island's captureNotable Point
  28. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:26:13A simpler Japanese force design for MidwayNotable Point
  29. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    2:24:46Counterfactual: a Japanese victory at MidwayNotable Point
  30. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    1:04:44Why Sunderland was meant to draw Beatty firstNotable Point
  31. Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction
    1:12:17Interwar exercises taught fleets to adaptNotable Point
  32. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    22:51Germany lacked a developed fallback strategyNotable Point
  33. Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...
    17:32Why faster armies needed deeper aerial reconnaissanceNotable Point
  34. What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?
    45:13A captain's command problems are interconnectedNotable Point
  35. Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'
    1:06:54Why an alternative Spanish landing remained difficultNotable Point
  36. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    55:43A naval staff could turn intelligence into workable operationsChapter
  37. Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral
    10:30Kimmel's scouting-force background and carrier-raid plansChapter
  38. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    1:18:36Grant builds his plan around ShermanChapter
  39. Chattanooga Campaign of 1863
    2:22:56Bragg failed to withdraw or prepare defense in depthNotable Point
  40. 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)
    22:39Carrier fires and damage made Taranto a problem of timing and resilienceNotable Point
  41. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    1:40:54Carrier fiction improves when the enemy gets a voteNotable Point
  42. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    55:11Integration turns technology into operational powerNotable Point
  43. Operation Frankton: The Cockleshell Heroes
    51:28Tuna's report exposes the insertion problemChapter
  44. Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?
    54:11Rules of engagement could not survive contactNotable Point
  45. Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back
    14:44The long detour slips below the British cruiser searchNotable Point
  46. Naval Historian Reacts to SS Africa Shell & Switch Back
    15:32Harwood converts Langsdorff's delays into an interception estimateNotable Point
  47. Thoughts on Problems for Future of Strategy from a Naval Historian
    35:32The enemy gets a vote in every war planNotable Point
  48. Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    2:44:33How admirals shape policy without controlling itQ&A
  49. Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!
    2:11:35Survivor recovery rarely keeps a bomber's timetableNotable Point
  50. Rome Total War; To go Remastered or Not to Go Remastered that is the question
    59:45Separating a garrison from its relief forceNotable Point
  51. Rome Total War; To go Remastered or Not to Go Remastered that is the question
    2:10:54Spreading siege towers across several approachesNotable Point
  52. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    25:29Why survival matters more than a nominal defeatNotable Point
  53. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    34:05Why a poor enemy commander may be useful aliveNotable Point
  54. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    59:46Consolidating Canada before opening another frontNotable Point
  55. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 3(February 2023)
    1:50:40Preserving command and artillery for the next campaignChapter
  56. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)
    1:09:47Do not size ammunition stocks for a cooperative enemyQ&A
  57. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    36:29Warning and half-measures cripple the Dardanelles campaignNotable Point
  58. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    13:47War presents dilemmas rather than tidy problemsChapter
  59. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    16:19A fast route becomes a trap when the enemy attacks the supply lineNotable Point
  60. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    1:41:22Training scenarios teach when to accept a lesser victoryNotable Point
  61. Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More
    2:07:39Structural damage forces Raven to abandon a running escapeChapter
  62. The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound
    1:03Military necessity and the waste of lifeNotable Point
  63. The Most Pointless Mission: Operation Tan No 2 (Long Patrol) - Working Sound
    21:37Optimism bias and serviceability planningNotable Point
  64. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    19:21Penny-packet attacks and the need for force concentrationNotable Point
  65. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    21:34Planning for perfect serviceabilityNotable Point
  66. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    29:02Home-defence reserves versus a viable strikeNotable Point
  67. Operation Tan No 2 (Sound Missing)
    50:06A forlorn hope still needs a purposeNotable Point
  68. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    2:12:31A proposed Dardanelles assault illustrates the need for sufficient forceNotable Point
  69. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment
    3:07:47Early Russian assumptions and logistics in the 2022 invasionNotable Point
  70. Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)
    21:45Midway and the contingency Japan did not planNotable Point
  71. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    2:13:20Japanese formations converged from separate basesNotable Point
  72. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    3:50:30How missed road-hub timetables turned the bocage into a trapQ&A
  73. Four Random Books 34: A Special Place
    9:31Testing amphibious plans against forces, geography, and isolationNotable Point
  74. Bruships 44: Strategy
    3:31:15Caution cost Operation Compass momentum before BardiaNotable Point
  75. Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers
    41:24Captured plans do not defeat prepared defensesNotable Point
  76. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    1:32:46Staff planning and a decoy compel the Gift frigate's surrenderTranscript Excerpt
  77. Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)
    33:54Diversions let an amphibious attacker concentrate the heavy blowNotable Point
  78. Four Random Books 28: Mavericks
    18:40Ellis links maneuver to fire superiority and staff planningNotable Point
  79. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    3:27:06Gallipoli's August offensive depended on too many linked successesChapter
  80. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    3:31:20Suvla needed an advance inland to support Sari BairNotable Point
  81. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 1915
    17:00A false trawler theory leads into a British ambushNotable Point
  82. Four Random Books 25: On a Precipe
    0:44Military Blunders and recurring command failureChapter
  83. Four Random Books 25: On a Precipe
    2:39Why the Somme bombardment failedNotable Point
  84. Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today
    42:13Joint planning without radios at GuadeloupeChapter
  85. Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today
    47:23What Guadeloupe's bypass has in common with the Maginot LineQ&A
  86. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:25:37Japan's plan had no comfortable answer to an active defenseQ&A
  87. 2 Minutes: What happened with Crete?
    0:23British troops without coherent preparationNotable Point
  88. 2 Minutes: What happened with Crete?
    0:57One British weakness behind Germany's precarious victoryNotable Point
  89. 2 Minutes: What happened with Crete?
    1:40Changing the command structure or moving one platoonNotable Point
  90. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:34:32How the limited war could reach a fleet battleChapter