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- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?38:07How Britain could anticipate the tidal windowNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:47What drones an amphibious ship may carryQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:02:52Swordfish spotting turned the tables at NarvikNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:19:34Small drones spotting for very long-range gunsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)48:48Japan could shift fleet scouting onto small carriersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)52:16American scout carriers could move risk away from fleet carriersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:06:34Britain and Japan would lead light-carrier adoptionNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:41:09Would cruiser aircraft operate through the squadron carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:24Cruiser aircraft and the hunt for Admiral Graf SpeeQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:04Destroying scouts before they can report the fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:49What a Blackburn-style scout could do at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:28What Swordfish could have changed at JutlandQ&A
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?1:32:58Coastwatchers narrow Japan's routes to the Java SeaNotable Point
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?39:30Axis coordination may prevent an invasionChapter
- Battle of Dornach(1499)36:49Two Swiss columns approach through the forestChapter
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:47:23Do small single-purpose drones reverse the trend toward larger aircraft?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:34What Japan's large armored cruisers were forQ&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:50:35German battlecruisers as a scouting forceNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?3:13:15Why better briefing could keep battlecruisers out of the battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:52If airborne reconnaissance reached Jellicoe at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:38Why stronger light anti-aircraft guns would not stop carriersQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:34World War II combatants with modern drone controlsQ&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?1:27:25Commando raids worked best when their scale matched a precise objectiveNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube20:18Roman Danube fleets and the demands of offensive warChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube30:49Why paid Roman oarsmen mattered when troops went ashoreNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s17:58A flexible air group and fighter doctrineChapter
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s25:34Speed, range, and the raider-hunting carrierChapter
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s45:45Why a German raider force could use a carrierNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons16:42Flying boats as the 1920s patrol solutionChapter
- Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier58:06MQ-25 Stingray extends the carrier air wingChapter
- Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier1:07:58Which carrier-air roles should become uncrewed first?Notable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...35:10Why carriers became natural flagshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!46:57A rebuilt battlecruiser would change the Glorious encounterQ&A
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- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed22:29Wartime roles for surviving rigid airshipsQ&A
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- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:54:16Could dawn helicopter patrols warn Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:59:27Surviving carriers reshape the Denmark Strait battleNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s3:06:28Would helicopters make Market Garden succeed?Q&A
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers11:29HMA No. 1 Mayfly and reconnaissanceChapter
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers17:07Why a few airships could not watch the North SeaNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers27:58Aircraft offered a cheaper scouting instrumentNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers31:29Naval aircraft scout over Vera Cruz in 1914Chapter
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers32:28HMS Manica and the aerial communications problemNotable Point
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers35:23Why faster warships needed a longer warning horizonChapter
- Beginnings of Naval Aviation & Beginnings of the Year of Aircraft Carriers46:32From reconnaissance aircraft to attack aviationChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:42:13The landing splits the Japanese defenseChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:03:21Lexingtons as a US reconnaissance forceChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:09:05Congress, carrier conversions, and a US scouting forceNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:28:20Would Indomitable simply have been sunk with Force Z?Q&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:45:20Speculatores, exploratores, and Roman special operationsNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction15:08Visibility limits the useful firing rangeNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:01:55Spotter aircraft would reshape the long-range fightNotable Point
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &113:01A carrier core for the scouting forceNotable Point
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1120:04Reconnaissance and escorts were the real defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:06:53Beatty's reconnaissance duty after the first German withdrawalChapter
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:09:35Goodenough's reports and the second crossing of the German lineNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:23:04German radio discipline and British airship reconnaissanceQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 218:42Scouting versus strike capacity in carrier operationsNotable Point
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- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:54:09US carriers near Pearl Harbor were not ready for an immediate counterstrikeQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...3:46Why battleship spotting aircraft remained biplanesQ&A
- Battle of Arausio (105BC): Rome's Second Great Loss & the Reforms it Led to13:18Scaurus loses Rome's reconnaissance tripwireNotable Point
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…22:40Scaurus loses Rome's reconnaissance forceNotable Point
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…30:04Why send a senior officer to scout?Q&A
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…34:34Why a junior officer could not simply lead the patrolQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:55:19Reconnaissance probes still leave commanders waiting for identificationNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again2:07:14Space fleets may maneuver in plain sightNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre4:59Deception controls what the enemy thinks it discoveredChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?34:38Why airborne early warning does not replace scoutingQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:46:39Why small cruisers underpin a fleet's real reachChapter
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...4:30:33How a dispersed yacht raider network could operateQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)58:04Why battlecruisers should not become makeshift carriersQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:51:35The Blackburn's value as a fleet spotting aircraftQ&A
- Battle of Shiloh (Long Patrol)35:58Why western Union cavalry underperformedNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh (Long Patrol)38:15Grant's camp system and offensive defenceChapter
- Battle of Shiloh (Long Patrol)53:26Peabody's patrol gives the Union warningChapter
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events1:30:48Rain, delay, and the limits of Confederate surpriseNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events1:39:22Peabody's reconnaissance gives warningNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)20:14The Walrus as a cruiser reconnaissance toolNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships3:06:58Witch Head abandons the fleet's standoff doctrineChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)6:03Long-range patrol, scouting, and commerce warfareNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)36:42Reconnaissance aircraft and independent operationsNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)15:25Why the Navy kept finding other jobs for AbdielsChapter
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:07:48A modern carrier battle as a contest of scouts, missiles, and rangeQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?49:30Why 36 Swordfish did not mean a strike-only air groupNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:29:55The doctrinal error of treating aircraft like gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:32:55Why an airborne patrol did not reveal a carrierQ&A
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- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:25:24Belle Île as a forward blockade baseChapter
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- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:02:05Why submarines experimented with gyroglider scoutsQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:31:05Why raising a periscope did not replace elevated submarine scoutingQ&A
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- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live35:04Midway strength could not cancel the intelligence gapQ&A
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- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:39:06Floatplanes, carrier aircraft, and search coverageNotable Point
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- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi21:37Nearby drones defeat delayed observations and carrier decoysNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi32:50The missing scout layer in a space-carrier forceNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi36:31Carrier support aircraft enable the strike forceNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi43:21Delayed communications create operational friction in spaceNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi1:12:25Return to Haven treats reconnaissance as a mission objectiveChapter
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi1:19:34Can destroying every witness preserve a scout's secrecy?Q&A
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi1:32:46Staff planning and a decoy compel the Gift frigate's surrenderTranscript Excerpt
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- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:10:33A covert insertion disguised as a meteorNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:16:49Jump-bubble navigation and finding a target againQ&A
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- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:43:17How cruiser growth reduced reconnaissance valueChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:50:32Albion Lost and a fleet hidden in Wild SpaceChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:04:35Why Finality cannot wait for reinforcementsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...6:32Observation duties and directed artillery fireNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 4 of 5: After 1940 - Quislings & Commandos16:47SOE reconnaissance watched German forces and shipsNotable Point
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