Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Political Leadership

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  1. What happens if Emperor Napoleon III of France backs Emperor Maximilian of Mexico to the Maximum?
    33:58Napoleon III, Bismarck and the limits of administrative abilityNotable Point
  2. What happens if Emperor Napoleon III of France backs Emperor Maximilian of Mexico to the Maximum?
    1:11:28Constitutional monarchy still requires political stabilityNotable Point
  3. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:00:36Political participation and public noiseNotable Point
  4. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    6:46Churchill's energy, persistence and judgmentChapter
  5. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    37:49Churchill's personal attention as a means of persuasionNotable Point
  6. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:18:01How fair is the claim that most Churchill ideas were unworkable?Q&A
  7. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    2:51:55Why Churchill remained an MP after leaving Downing StreetNotable Point
  8. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    3:39:02Was Churchill the best available mentor for Elizabeth II?Q&A
  9. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    13:30Mussolini's contested dictatorshipNotable Point
  10. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    28:00When personal grievance replaces state strategyNotable Point
  11. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    1:03:22The political cost of delayed American entryNotable Point
  12. An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?
    6:11Roosevelt's wheelchair and the image of political leadershipNotable Point
  13. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    2:54:27Could personal legacy push Xi toward Taiwan?Q&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    10:07:28Military success and Byzantine court politicsQ&A
  15. What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)
    2:49:08Could a civilian nuclear project secure scarce resources?Q&A
  16. Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...
    33:31Pragmatic public service in the Georgia SenateNotable Point
  17. Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...
    36:12Civil-rights conviction and electoral compromiseNotable Point
  18. Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:18:25Consultation in a century-long decolonization planQ&A
  19. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    0:00Why succession shaped Russo-Swedish war makingChapter
  20. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    44:39Weak courts pause the rivalry without solving itChapter
  21. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    1:01:54Adolf Frederick cannot turn constitutional conflict into strategyNotable Point
  22. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    1:03:26Catherine turns factional politics into durable powerChapter
  23. How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership
    9:26Why Anglo-American strength still depended on political cohesionNotable Point
  24. How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership
    29:42Mussolini's projected strength exceeded his real controlNotable Point
  25. How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership
    37:26The Jeune École legacy compounds French policy instabilityNotable Point
  26. How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership
    46:50Depression-era extremism narrows the political middleChapter
  27. How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership
    51:52Hannington shows why leadership skills do not transfer automaticallyNotable Point
  28. What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?
    19:19A leader works in the moment while seeing the wider contextChapter
  29. General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!
    1:37:10Pertinax as an admiral and technocratic emperorNotable Point
  30. The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked
    58:10How James II alienated potential naval alliesNotable Point
  31. A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?
    41:17Konoe's search for peace without control of the armyChapter
  32. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:28:02Roman military adaptation and Byzantine political infightingNotable Point
  33. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:33:27How Theodore Roosevelt and Jacky Fisher might have worked togetherQ&A
  34. HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 2
    57:53Stanley Baldwin and steady interwar governmentNotable Point
  35. Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:27:29Age limits do not solve candidate-selection incentivesNotable Point
  36. Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:38:15Political oratory as a route to statesmanshipNotable Point
  37. Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:52:01What Yes Minister gets right about political skillNotable Point
  38. Carry on Invading Britain: The Battle of Fishguard (1797)
    5:03Leadership churn shapes the War of the First CoalitionNotable Point
  39. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    30:49Judging historical leaders in the role they facedNotable Point
  40. HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 8
    47:26Deterrence fails when government cannot define its purposeNotable Point
  41. How to Build A Navy
    26:22Political malaise begins when strategic questions stopNotable Point
  42. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)
    57:03How political career incentives can produce groupthinkNotable Point
  43. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)
    2:18:53Why successful generals can struggle in democratic politicsChapter
  44. Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...
    1:04:20Why late Song leadership failed at grand strategyNotable Point
  45. Battle of Yamen (1279)... 844yrs ago today...
    1:21:48Dynastic grand strategy under child rulersNotable Point
  46. Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'
    2:04:46Political leadership as responsibility rather than powerNotable Point
  47. Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'
    2:12:56Local government is service delivery, not grandstandingNotable Point
  48. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)
    1:08:40Military professionalism and political useNotable Point
  49. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    26:29Authoritarian courts need protected dissentNotable Point
  50. Battle of Navarino (1827)
    30:46Why trust and guarantors matter in ending warsQ&A
  51. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    37:07Political image, reality, and the value of oppositionNotable Point
  52. Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)
    12:41Autocratic leadership left Sweden strategically unpreparedNotable Point
  53. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment
    3:33:15How the invasion could affect Putin's authorityQ&A
  54. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment
    3:42:28Why an autocrat's search for legacy can raise strategic riskQ&A
  55. Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)
    2:43:35Woodrow Wilson's ideas and difficulty carrying them outQ&A
  56. The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises (Long Patrol)
    18:56Bismarck's system without BismarckNotable Point
  57. Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises
    2:23:01Campaigning skill is not governing machineryNotable Point
  58. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)
    2:03:08Chamberlain's reputation suffers beside Churchill's certaintyQ&A
  59. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    3:23:05Keyes and MacArthur in a postwar political branchQ&A
  60. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    1:45:52Q&A: how practitioners can use civilian strategistsQ&A
  61. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai
    17:18Cabinet loyalty and the Sixteenth GatheringNotable Point
  62. A Book or Two to Review (31):
    15:14Testing political promises: glitz or granite?Notable Point
  63. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:02:24Political skill did not make Hitler a sound wartime strategistQ&A
  64. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    1:59Queen Victoria confronts a future World War IQ&A
  65. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    32:01Churchill's place in Britain's 1940 leadershipQ&A
  66. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    46:35Napoleon's Egyptian expedition never arrivesQ&A
  67. Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword
    3:47:18Reading Churchill between hero and monsterNotable Point
  68. Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History
    30:42Political skill and local alliances shape the War of the Four KingdomsChapter
  69. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    3:33:45Political skill did not make Hitler a sound strategistNotable Point
  70. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA
    8:39Churchill's appeal includes accepting responsibilityNotable Point
  71. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    1:02:38Norway's invasion crisis was a failure of mobilisationNotable Point
  72. Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment
    1:40:30Washington's uniform as a claim to commandNotable Point
  73. Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment
    1:42:29Why Churchill endured as First Lord of the AdmiraltyQ&A
  74. Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment
    3:06:57Chinese foreign policy through an internal lensQ&A
  75. The Great White Fleet
    1:06:05Did Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill know each other?Q&A
  76. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    2:59:19Eisenhower refuses McCarthy's political gutterNotable Point
  77. Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations
    3:09:37Indira Gandhi's final speech on service and sacrificeNotable Point
  78. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered
    3:50What a modern Theodore Roosevelt would needQ&A
  79. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 3 of 3 - Some Questions Answered
    9:44Judging Ho Chi Minh's leadership by effectivenessQ&A
  80. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    37:20Nasser's personal authority and intelligence contactsNotable Point
  81. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    41:41War-weary leaders and Britain's succession problemNotable Point
  82. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    43:47Thatcher and the Falklands as a generational contrastNotable Point
  83. Four Random Books 8: Churchill
    13:09Churchill's case for courage and perseveranceNotable Point
  84. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    53:16Cromwell, the Protectorate, and political leadershipChapter
  85. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:00:01Charles II, theatres, and informal politicsNotable Point
  86. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:11:40Reading Machiavelli beyond The PrinceQ&A
  87. Cretan War 1645-1669; An Introduction & Overview
    12:24How the sultan and grand vizier divided imperial ruleNotable Point
  88. Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era
    2:14:52Why deterrence depends on political decisivenessNotable Point
  89. Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    32:45Why leadership style must fit the person and crisisNotable Point