Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Philippines

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  1. What happens if Emperor Napoleon III of France backs Emperor Maximilian of Mexico to the Maximum?
    24:43Why France expected Spanish help in MexicoNotable Point
  2. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    0:07The logistical price of bypassing Pearl HarborChapter
  3. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    6:53Why the southern offensives must concentrate in IndochinaChapter
  4. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    28:07The Philippines on alert while America remains neutralNotable Point
  5. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    34:52American entry turns the Philippines into a logistics threatChapter
  6. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    24:50MacArthur and subordinate initiative in the PhilippinesNotable Point
  7. The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered
    15:30The six-year gap ends with five Smith-class destroyersNotable Point
  8. What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)
    1:46:49Pacific interests and a return to naval diplomacyNotable Point
  9. Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart
    8:41How a weak U.S. battle fleet changes the Pacific balanceNotable Point
  10. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:14:25How retaining Singapore could shift the Pacific campaignQ&A
  11. What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?
    56:16Why Force Z's survival would not rescue the PhilippinesNotable Point
  12. What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?
    1:08:30Singapore could become Japan's next major carrier targetNotable Point
  13. Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics
    32:22Could Kido Butai chase the US Fleet toward the Philippines?Q&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    2:59:01Why an independent Philippines would still need naval partnersQ&A
  15. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    3:01:03Dutch colonial interests in an independent PhilippinesNotable Point
  16. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    44:20The Philippine route linked Japanese fuel and ammunitionChapter
  17. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    45:42How the Shogo diversion opened the road to SamarChapter
  18. Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:49:52A rebuilt Fort Drum in a modern missile-destroyer formQ&A
  19. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    2:01:28More Allied submarines operate from SingaporeQ&A
  20. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:42:42Did the intelligence point only to the Philippines?Q&A
  21. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:49:47American carrier doctrine revealed what the missing Japanese carriers meantChapter
  22. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    2:21:16What if Hawaii had remained independent?Q&A
  23. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:52:57The Philippines replaces Pearl Harbor as the US forward baseQ&A
  24. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:35Pearl Harbor and Japan's unfinished victoryChapter
  25. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:04:51How early US minelaying submarines could reshape the Pacific openingQ&A
  26. What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?
    37:12A South China Sea demonstration needs tankersNotable Point
  27. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    1:06:19A Pacific Fleet demonstration in the South China SeaChapter
  28. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    2:26:31Does an empty Pearl Harbor make a negotiated peace more likely?Q&A
  29. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    2:30:25Could the Pacific Fleet fuel a voyage to the South China Sea?Q&A
  30. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:21:39Would reliable Mark 14 torpedoes change the Philippines campaign?Q&A
  31. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    2:08:28Where future maritime great powers may emergeQ&A
  32. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    28:44Japan joining the Central Powers could bring America in soonerQ&A
  33. Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 108
    1:16:33MacArthur might still repeat his historical inactionQ&A
  34. What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108
    2:03:52Why the settlement proposes an American mandate in IndochinaNotable Point
  35. What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108
    3:04:00Philippine independence changes the pretext for warNotable Point
  36. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    2:42:31Japan might buy the Philippines instead of invading themQ&A
  37. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    19:13Japan joining Spain in the Spanish-American WarQ&A
  38. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    1:47:00If Britain took the Philippines in the Napoleonic WarsQ&A
  39. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    2:42:29If Japan took Spain's Pacific empire instead of the United StatesQ&A
  40. Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier
    1:11:35Japan's resource options impose different transport risksNotable Point
  41. What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier
    35:41Who leads an Anglo-American war against Japan?Notable Point
  42. How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier
    52:33Blockade and American overseas territoriesChapter
  43. How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier
    1:10:47The short war and its negotiation clockNotable Point
  44. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    1:35:35America joins the Franco-Russian sideQ&A
  45. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    3:44:14Japan could not seize southern resources without hitting Allied interestsQ&A
  46. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    44:27A Pacific without the treaty fortification clauseQ&A
  47. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:16:40If Japan takes the Philippines before the Russo-Japanese WarQ&A
  48. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:01:13The risk of bypassing Luzon and the PhilippinesQ&A
  49. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:09:34MacArthur captured in the PhilippinesQ&A
  50. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    12:21South China Sea coercion meets the interests of trading statesQ&A
  51. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    25:35Early Philippine independence would not remove the Japanese threatQ&A
  52. If not Pearl Harbour?
    32:02Criteria for an alternative opening strikeChapter
  53. If not Pearl Harbour?
    55:29The Philippines as the operational lureChapter
  54. If not Pearl Harbour?
    1:11:07Could Japan split its carriers among three provocations?Q&A
  55. If not Pearl Harbour?
    1:48:32Reinforcement convoys as ambush targetsChapter
  56. If not Pearl Harbour?
    1:57:39How could civilians leave the Far East?Q&A
  57. Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?
    31:13Why Manila was not a British base optionQ&A
  58. WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...
    1:19:11A stronger Far Eastern fleet changes Japanese choicesChapter
  59. Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer
    2:23:03Japan without the China war: richer but farther from its objectivesQ&A
  60. Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer
    2:33:06A Japanese invasion of the Spanish Philippines in 1592Q&A
  61. Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...
    2:21:39Canada, the Philippines, and Mexico stretch American strategyChapter
  62. Bruships 111: Random Books of History
    1:34:37Why War Plan Orange made secure bases a condition of advancingNotable Point
  63. HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 10
    14:48What a Renown-type ship might have meant in the PhilippinesNotable Point
  64. Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus
    23:01Japan, the Great White Fleet, and the PhilippinesQ&A
  65. Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus
    24:00A German Philippines and British coal salesQ&A
  66. 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
  67. Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites
    1:31:42The limits of American isolationism after World War IQ&A
  68. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    28:54German ambitions in the PhilippinesNotable Point
  69. Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"
    1:44:52Could Washington separate Dominion navies from Britain?Q&A
  70. Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?
    2:32:15Can Japan reach Dutch East Indies oil without Indochina?Q&A
  71. SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 12
    33:08Gefion at Manila after the Spanish defeatChapter
  72. Velasco Class(1881): 19th Century Cruisers p5
    4:57Gravina lost in a Philippine typhoonNotable Point
  73. Velasco Class(1881): 19th Century Cruisers p5
    12:58The Black Squadron's unprotected reinforcementsChapter
  74. Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments
    13:42Force Z's air-cover problem was partly a signals failureQ&A
  75. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1941
    26:06Use Singapore as a coalition fleet baseChapter
  76. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    23:47Dewey's orders and the Hong Kong logistical springboardChapter
  77. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    27:10A renewed Philippine rebellion meets Dewey's hard-trained squadronChapter
  78. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    30:38Tsingtao and the great-power contest around the PhilippinesNotable Point
  79. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    53:10Charleston is recommissioned to reinforce DeweyChapter
  80. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    9:54Why Spain's strongest ships never reached the decisive battlesQ&A
  81. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    36:10From Maine's loss to war in ten weeksChapter
  82. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    40:19A change of governor renews rebellion in the PhilippinesNotable Point
  83. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    1:28:59Cost saving and Spain's neglected fleet trainingQ&A
  84. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:31:03Cámara's relief squadron reaches the Red Sea too lateChapter
  85. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:46:04Germany waits for an opening in the PhilippinesQ&A
  86. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    0:26Why frame the scenario as an Anglo-Sino war?Q&A
  87. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    28:04How might Japan ambush Allied forces north of the Philippines?Q&A
  88. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    32:51Why would a 1939 Japanese southward offensive struggle?Q&A
  89. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    1:02:01The Philippines force Japan's strategic choiceChapter
  90. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    59:48Kantai Kessen meets British and American basesChapter
  91. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    2:25:27China and the Soviet Union widen Japan's strategic crisisNotable Point
  92. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    2:26:50Why the Philippines becomes Japan's immediate dilemmaNotable Point
  93. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    56:42The Philippines were central to Japan’s expectationQ&A
  94. Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)
    1:46:52The prewar American plan advanced through the PhilippinesQ&A
  95. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    26:36Attrition before the decisive battleChapter
  96. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    56:14What Pearl Harbor was supposed to buyChapter
  97. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    4:26:38The Philippines as a U.S. stateQ&A
  98. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    16:03Defending the Pacific Fleet's center of gravityNotable Point
  99. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    58:18Four hours of warnings on 7 DecemberChapter
  100. Four Random Books 11: Quasi American
    7:07Philippine battle scenarios and Japanese attrition attacksNotable Point
  101. 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-13
    22:38Stimson's wartime office and colonial paternalismNotable Point
  102. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    1:21:10American entry and a coalition Pacific commandChapter
  103. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:15:17One amphibious ship cannot move 60,000 troopsNotable Point
  104. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    9:18The Asiatic Fleet's reconnaissance advantageNotable Point
  105. An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 2: The Counter-Factual; My Plan
    23:03Hold the fleet and bargain for reinforcementsNotable Point