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Strategic Bombing

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  1. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:36:33Ships on building slips depend on vulnerable supportsNotable Point
  2. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:52:53Berlin as a target in a British atomic-war counterfactualQ&A
  3. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    4:39:54Operation Vegetarian remains a deterrentQ&A
  4. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    34:52American entry turns the Philippines into a logistics threatChapter
  5. What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?
    40:09Holding Crete and bringing Axis oil fields within rangeNotable Point
  6. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:19:37How aerial refueling could have changed World War II bombingQ&A
  7. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    1:59:07Would carrier spending counter land-based bomber advocacy?Q&A
  8. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:24:47Why precision-bombing promises failed against weather and moving shipsQ&A
  9. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:52:00Why bombing totals do not precisely locate unexploded bombsQ&A
  10. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:06:02The target of a hypothetical German nuclear V-2Q&A
  11. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:10:40Preventing launches of a hypothetical nuclear V-2Q&A
  12. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:14:54Comparing the cost of the B-29 and Manhattan ProjectQ&A
  13. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:01:43Would shipyard attacks change German heavy-bomber priorities?Q&A
  14. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:32:38Holding Crete could make Operation Pike more practicalQ&A
  15. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:25:46A carrier victory weakens Billy Mitchell's caseQ&A
  16. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:42:34Why bombing a production bottleneck may not collapse industryNotable Point
  17. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    2:13:12Zeppelin defence challenged the bomber mythNotable Point
  18. Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers
    24:23Bomber priorities shape naval aircraft engine supplyNotable Point
  19. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    5:18:31From Douhet's terror theory to area bombingChapter
  20. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:17:44A thousand B-52s in Japan still need a fuel systemQ&A
  21. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:29:42How a larger A7M Reppu force could complicate B-29 raidsQ&A
  22. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    4:03:13Bomber advocates and control of naval aviationQ&A
  23. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    5:42:39Why miraculous Saxon oil would not immediately solve Germany's fuel problemQ&A
  24. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    11:07:45Fear of chemical escalation during the Battle of BritainNotable Point
  25. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    11:09:12Interwar bombing theory and the desire to avoid another trench warNotable Point
  26. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    11:13:27How strategic-bombing theory affected naval aviationQ&A
  27. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:05:45Project Habakkuk as a strategic bomber base at seaQ&A
  28. What happens if Japan persues Synthetic Fuels from 1930 onwards?
    2:28Reading Japan's strategic-bombing survey criticallyNotable Point
  29. What happens if Japan persues Synthetic Fuels from 1930 onwards?
    40:24Dispersed plants protect operational enduranceChapter
  30. What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)
    2:43:07Would intercontinental bombers still be funded?Q&A
  31. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:08:31Where naval Zeppelins repaid Germany's investmentQ&A
  32. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:00:22Why port destruction could outlast the bombing campaignQ&A
  33. Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:12:01Which ports endured the heaviest wartime attacks?Q&A
  34. Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction
    48:52Spare-engine accounting and the case for an independent air forceNotable Point
  35. Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?
    53:14Crete and Malta close the eastern MediterraneanChapter
  36. Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?
    58:28Crete could sustain bomber raids on PloieștiNotable Point
  37. Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?
    59:30Infrastructure snowballs into strategic air powerNotable Point
  38. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:00:01Mark 14 torpedo failures versus the Bomber MafiaQ&A
  39. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:16:43If the United States adopted Lancaster instead of its wartime bombersQ&A
  40. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:30:42Why changing bombers would not fix daylight doctrineNotable Point
  41. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    52:42Crete remains an Allied bomber and logistics baseQ&A
  42. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    57:02New explosives factories take time to support a Crete bombing campaignQ&A
  43. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:25:17British atomic strikes could halt the 1940 campaignQ&A
  44. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:38:49Atomic weapons compress a mass bombing raid into one aircraftNotable Point
  45. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:28:46B-29 fleets attack Axis oil in 1941Q&A
  46. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:32:21Early B-29 attacks threaten the Axis fuel networkNotable Point
  47. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:44:55Vietnam-era American forces overwhelm the Axis in 1942Q&A
  48. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:53:03An early bomb still needs an aircraft and delivery programQ&A
  49. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:17:51Was the B-29 rushed into combat?Q&A
  50. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:17:57Reading Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War in contextQ&A
  51. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    20:26Why Douhet's strategic-bombing theory outran bomber payloadsNotable Point
  52. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:30:10How inaccurate bombs still produced strategic effectsQ&A
  53. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:34:43What B-52s would change in the Second World WarQ&A
  54. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:05:32Why German wonder weapons could not reverse the warQ&A
  55. Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:23:16Would thermobaric weapons change the Second World War?Q&A
  56. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    11:00Why bombing rarely neutralized U-boat pensQ&A
  57. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:21:16Why early Tallboys imply an entirely different air warQ&A
  58. Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...
    51:42How the United States might enter the war without Pearl HarborQ&A
  59. Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...
    54:38The British infrastructure cost of hosting U.S. air powerNotable Point
  60. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    3:43:43Why interwar states unified naval and military air powerQ&A
  61. Flotillas of the Danube
    59:40Why Allied target analysis had to recognize Europe's canalsNotable Point
  62. Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5
    1:17:26Canals and river traffic are strategic infrastructureNotable Point
  63. Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...
    4:02:32German conventional ICBMs would harden American resolveQ&A
  64. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    1:00:00Would an Army air arm still embrace strategic bombing?Q&A
  65. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    44:39Why strategic bombers are poor close-support toolsQ&A
  66. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    2:48:04Why a hypothetical British atomic strike in 1941 points toward BerlinQ&A
  67. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    3:31:08An uncrewed dream fleet first becomes a logistics crisisQ&A
  68. So what happens in the Pacific if Italy stays neutral for WWII?
    57:45Allied Norway reshapes bombing, Arctic supply, and iron oreNotable Point
  69. So what happens in the Pacific if Italy stays neutral for WWII?
    1:07:20A shorter Japan-first war built around blockadeChapter
  70. So what happens in the Pacific if Italy stays neutral for WWII?
    1:09:28Why neutral Italy changes the whole warNotable Point
  71. The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10
    14:31From the Super Savage failure to a Mach 2 carrier bomberChapter
  72. The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10
    39:14Nuclear strike gave the Navy a place in 1950s strategyNotable Point
  73. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    36:00Why Tallboy was ill-suited to island strongpointsQ&A
  74. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    1:30:37The B-52 as an aircraft of TheseusNotable Point
  75. Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!
    2:41:42An I-400 raid on Washington would be strategically disastrousQ&A
  76. Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?
    46:29The planned attack on the Panama CanalChapter
  77. Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...
    2:04:22Why maintain an independent air force?Q&A
  78. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    10:06Why anti-aircraft rockets looked promisingChapter
  79. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    31:02Wasserfall adapted the V-2 idea for air defenceChapter
  80. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    54:42Schräge Musik created only a temporary advantageNotable Point
  81. Death from Above? Germany develops the Fritz X Early - Patreon Premier
    16:39Air Ministry doctrine turns the Skua into a compromiseNotable Point
  82. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    2:19:36British shipbuilding without interwar pausesQ&A
  83. Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice
    2:16:22Was Malta the most heavily bombed country?Q&A
  84. Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?
    9:44Mitchell's Pearl Harbor warning envisaged strategic bombersNotable Point
  85. Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?
    1:05:14Was there a British equivalent to Billy Mitchell?Q&A
  86. Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?
    1:22:15Aircraft range limits Mitchell's predicted threat by 1929Notable Point
  87. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    1:52:54Crete-based bombers target Romanian oilChapter
  88. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    2:02:07How commitments against Japan limit the route to Romanian oilNotable Point
  89. USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World
    6:12Interwar U.S. aviation doctrine divides by missionNotable Point
  90. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    2:50:55What bombing can degrade without forcing immediate complianceNotable Point
  91. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    3:19:36Germany was blockaded in 1918 and conquered in 1945Q&A
  92. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    2:57:45How a 1943 B-36 changes strategic bombingQ&A
  93. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    29:53Italian airpower vision versus payload realityNotable Point
  94. Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began
    52:33Strategic bombing theory and the bomb-supply problemChapter
  95. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:44:57Air-power predictions and changing military technologyQ&A
  96. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:34:32Who the United States might bomb in November 1944Q&A
  97. Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:09:56Heavy-bomber efficiency versus battleship firepowerQ&A
  98. What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?
    21:59Bomber doctrine crowds out rotorcraftNotable Point
  99. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:15:47Moving Britain west redirects medieval expansion and lengthens the air warQ&A
  100. Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time
    1:36:15An early B-29 extends strategic bombing without producing an instant victoryQ&A
  101. Operation Frankton: The Cockleshell Heroes
    18:59Why bomber-versus-battleship arithmetic misled plannersNotable Point
  102. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:27:07Redirecting most B-29s to EuropeQ&A
  103. The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes
    2:27:25Comparing atomic bombing with conventional firebombingNotable Point
  104. What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s
    1:27:39Bomber ideology channels turbine research into strike aircraftNotable Point
  105. What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s
    1:31:31Fast bombers could threaten unfinished German warshipsNotable Point
  106. Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers
    2:48:04Would RAF bombing stop the building program?Q&A
  107. WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...
    41:05Norwegian bases put German resources closer to British bombersNotable Point
  108. Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...
    1:19:19Using Norway to threaten Ploiești oilNotable Point
  109. Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...
    1:27:03Could RAF bombers navigate from Norway to Ploiești?Q&A
  110. CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 1
    8:34Service rivalry over strategic bombingNotable Point
  111. British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences
    1:54:45Why consider a nuclear earthquake bomb?Q&A
  112. Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI
    33:06The bomber theory that distorted British air prioritiesChapter
  113. Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?
    1:04:43The bomber doctrine that assumed no effective defenceChapter
  114. Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?
    1:12:43Were early bombers too fast to intercept?Q&A
  115. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    2:31:07Britain dispersed production to survive bombingNotable Point
  116. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:39:21German bomber limits met British civil-defence preparationNotable Point
  117. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:43:19Could Germany build heavy bombers and force peace?Q&A
  118. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:46:17Aircraft counts can hide the weight of wartime productionNotable Point
  119. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    4:10:16Bombing, blockade, and armies depend on one anotherNotable Point
  120. Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat
    2:24:30What an early British hydrogen bomb would changeQ&A
  121. Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation
    33:52Douhet and speculative interwar air powerNotable Point
  122. Bruships 110: Naval Aviation
    2:56:24The promise of a clean war through strategic bombingNotable Point
  123. Bruships 110: Naval Aviation
    3:08:44Why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not simple proof of bombing theoryQ&A
  124. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    3:01Douhet's apocalyptic air war did not abolish limited conflictNotable Point
  125. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    16:47Engine accounting shaped the case for a unified air forceNotable Point
  126. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    1:18:41Why naval aircraft needed stronger enginesNotable Point
  127. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    25:44Engineering culture divided the RNAS from the RFCNotable Point
  128. A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?
    4:29Why diesel does not solve the fuel problem by itselfNotable Point
  129. A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?
    1:06:41A diesel fleet concentrates a strategic vulnerabilityChapter
  130. Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion
    5:31Nuclear weapons still need a reachable targetNotable Point
  131. Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion
    15:43Britain could answer nuclear escalation with chemical warfareNotable Point
  132. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response
    19:20Air Ministry politics and naval air powerChapter
  133. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    26:12The most expensive wartime weapon was a system, not one deviceQ&A
  134. Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat
    3:47:23A carrier can end the counterfactual war without nuclear escalationQ&A
  135. Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books
    3:38:05Bomber Command's death rate versus total loss rateQ&A
  136. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers
    1:19:06The Horizon weapon is costly overkillNotable Point
  137. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 64
    33:41Why wartime chemical and biological stockpiles went unusedNotable Point
  138. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 64
    2:33:07Bombers could free the fleet for the Far EastNotable Point
  139. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:24:36Essential wartime ships are hardest to justify in peaceChapter
  140. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    1:42:01Lancaster and B-52 raid payloads comparedQ&A
  141. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    10:49Why heavy naval guns were difficult to manufactureQ&A
  142. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1942
    19:29British intelligence targeted German industrial bottlenecksChapter
  143. Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    37:09The St. Barbara's Day raid sinks Muzio Attendolo at NaplesChapter
  144. Ruse de guerre
    20:59Campbeltown's concealed charge denies a second chanceNotable Point
  145. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    2:00:19Why Operation Chariot followed bombing proposalsQ&A
  146. Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare
    2:04:16Could earthquake bombs have replaced the raid?Q&A
  147. County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)
    36:34Dorsetshire and Cornwall in the Indian Ocean raidChapter
  148. Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...
    2:43:43Did concern for civilians restrain Axis bombing of Malta?Q&A
  149. Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...
    2:43:56Medium bombers and the limits of Axis air power over MaltaNotable Point
  150. Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...
    2:50:36He 177 and Lancaster: bomb load versus production scaleNotable Point
  151. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    2:12:37Why an early atomic bomb needed an industrial ecosystemNotable Point
  152. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    3:16:42Why the RAF's fleet-bombing opportunity disappearedQ&A
  153. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    3:01:41How would heavy bombers enter the Pacific war?Q&A
  154. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    3:16:00How long could Japanese industry survive sustained air attack?Q&A
  155. Bruships 69: The Decider
    49:35Norway instead of TorchQ&A
  156. Bruships 69: The Decider
    2:13:07A Japanese Me 262 counterpart would have to reach the B-29sQ&A
  157. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)
    2:09:47Why strategic-bombing production claims need cautionQ&A
  158. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    4:10:24Strategic bombing, public morale, and limited coercionNotable Point
  159. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    4:18:42Douhet and the postwar case for attacking civiliansQ&A
  160. Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary
    1:59:38An Allied Norway counterfactual: air range and Swedish ironNotable Point
  161. WW2 in the Mediterranean up until November 1940: p2 Taranto Long Patrol
    13:57The Wilhelmshaven raid exposed a broken targeting loopNotable Point
  162. Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?
    26:40Why Air Ministry priorities constrained the Fleet Air ArmChapter
  163. Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?
    2:41:10Bomber doctrine, not malice, set Air Ministry prioritiesQ&A
  164. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    16:37Historical judgement beneath simple good-and-evil labelsNotable Point
  165. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    37:35Were the atomic attacks war crimes?Q&A
  166. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    1:51:58Why bombing charges created legal equivalence problemsQ&A
  167. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    1:56:26Strategic bombing justified an independent RAFNotable Point
  168. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:10:54Did terror weapons work as intended?Q&A
  169. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    2:39:01Why Germany and the Soviet Union struggled to bomb each otherQ&A
  170. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    52:13Would blockade and bombing alone defeat Japan?Q&A
  171. Bruships 55: New Books
    2:18:38Why strategic-bombing history reaches Hiroshima and NagasakiNotable Point
  172. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions
    37:18The RAF, strategic bombing, and the First World War legacyNotable Point
  173. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident
    19:09The Norwegian heavy-bomber basing counterfactualNotable Point
  174. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    2:21Air defence makes the naval air service too largeChapter
  175. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    12:14RNAS growth shapes the balance inside the new RAFChapter
  176. Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS
    13:15Regimental identity versus naval systems thinkingNotable Point
  177. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    38:00Was the B-29 really a wartime invention?Q&A
  178. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    1:04:04Operation Starvation and Japan's narrowing optionsNotable Point
  179. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    32:28Douhet's heavy-bomber theory assumed an extremely short warNotable Point
  180. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    38:00Why the bomber could get through but not fulfill Douhet's promiseQ&A
  181. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    2:01:17The budget holder did not own the maritime problemNotable Point
  182. Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)
    2:34:30German war options if Barbarossa never beganQ&A
  183. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    3:17:45The chevauchée used devastation to compel submissionNotable Point
  184. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    3:05:51Air power depends on immobile infrastructureNotable Point
  185. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    3:10:19Why bomber fuel pipelines made air power less mobileNotable Point
  186. Four Random Books 24: Power, Money & Strategy in 1930s
    5:01Interwar modernization was a problem of immature technologyChapter
  187. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction
    31:15Air-power claims collide with interwar budget warsNotable Point
  188. Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:17:06Moral leadership and the use of forceQ&A
  189. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    52:49D-Day airpower, missed beaches, and unwanted patrol dutyChapter
  190. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:09:08Wild Blue and the cost of daylight bombingChapter
  191. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:17:36Does Wild Blue have historical problems as well?Q&A
  192. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:55:24Iwo Jima's airfields and the road to JapanChapter
  193. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:05:33Did the Iwo Jima bombing reveal the island's value?Q&A
  194. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:12:26Why the B-29 belonged in the PacificQ&A
  195. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:13:50Lancasters as a backup atomic-bomb carrierQ&A
  196. Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:15:42Could a B-17 carry an atomic bomb?Q&A
  197. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:46:34Adapting RAF bombers for Pacific distancesQ&A
  198. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    1:19The Dutch war scare meets a Pacific crisisChapter
  199. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    10:40Aircraft production without an immediate bombing threatNotable Point
  200. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    14:44The heavy-fighter concept before its combat testNotable Point
  201. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    19:30Why a January war changes British strategyChapter
  202. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    20:42Service backgrounds shape operational instinctNotable Point
  203. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    27:16Blockade after the decisive fleet actionNotable Point
  204. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    34:12A Pacific war redirects long-range bomber developmentNotable Point
  205. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    36:35Budget rivalry versus tactical cooperationNotable Point
  206. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    13:29Nanking, Wuhan, and the war behind the naval crisisNotable Point
  207. Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war
    1:47:54What a catastrophic explosion at Kiel could have destroyedQ&A
  208. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:55:55Tallboy made stationary warships and shipyards vulnerableQ&A