Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Strategic Planning

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  1. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    47:27The limits of treating war as an attrition equationNotable Point
  2. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    57:33Type 83's design horizon outlasts current governmentsQ&A
  3. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    58:59Naval designers work on both current ships and future requirementsQ&A
  4. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    16:43France's fall was a low-probability, high-impact naval riskNotable Point
  5. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    1:02:33Groupthink kept collapse warnings outside the planning consensusQ&A
  6. Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...
    1:22:16Geography persists when allies and threats changeNotable Point
  7. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:39:29Why a long-term plan must survive its author's departureNotable Point
  8. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:13:40The Tomorrow War and the value of advance warningQ&A
  9. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    29:31A rapid invasion could try to outrun international coordinationNotable Point
  10. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    1:01:00Uncertainty over US intervention complicates invasion planningQ&A
  11. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    1:51:57Cross-strait intelligence penetration works in both directionsNotable Point
  12. Key Books: Prof Andrew Lambert's "No More Napoleons!"
    49:04Joined-up thinking in procurement and strategyNotable Point
  13. Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy
    58:36Industrial decisions shape wars decades laterNotable Point
  14. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    42:28Why valuable naval infrastructure also needs protectionNotable Point
  15. Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...
    1:03:13Governments must plan beyond market horizonsNotable Point
  16. Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...
    1:31:55Political career pipelines can become institutional rutsNotable Point
  17. Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario
    28:48Why the Armada might have sailed from A CoruñaNotable Point
  18. Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?
    22:51Germany lacked a developed fallback strategyNotable Point
  19. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    56:34Why reserve planning cannot assume wars of choiceNotable Point
  20. Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    15:02Alliance disruption and the new strategic normalNotable Point
  21. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:56:52Capital ships outlive the politics used to judge themNotable Point
  22. Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier
    9:13How 2013 threat assumptions shaped drone choicesNotable Point
  23. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:27:47Guilliman's long game against imperial institutionsNotable Point
  24. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:34:24Why manuals and administration are part of combat powerNotable Point
  25. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:36:01Leman Russ as a strategist behind the warrior personaNotable Point
  26. Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:42:53Rogal Dorn beyond defensive specializationNotable Point
  27. So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 3
    1:25:12Fund the full force behind a carrier capabilityChapter
  28. Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    57:03Peace overtakes the Eastern Siberia invasionNotable Point
  29. If not Pearl Harbour?
    6:19The planning paradox behind Pearl HarborChapter
  30. If not Pearl Harbour?
    20:20Japanese doctrine was a planning system, not one battle sloganNotable Point
  31. Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?
    28:08Hindsight hides how extreme Britain's 1941 position wasNotable Point
  32. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:01:56How one fast battleship could trigger several foreign responsesNotable Point
  33. What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?
    1:04:08The 1940 choice: withdraw, reinforce, or accept isolationNotable Point
  34. A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 7
    9:41Authoritarian personnel selection and strategic failureNotable Point
  35. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    41:46Plan Z needed time, money, and naval priorityChapter
  36. How to Build A Navy
    26:22Political malaise begins when strategic questions stopNotable Point
  37. Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)
    46:34Separating imperial government from field commandNotable Point
  38. Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)
    55:51Guilliman's political persona and administrative imageNotable Point
  39. Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)
    1:15:25Planning ahead by securing basic needs firstNotable Point
  40. Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)
    2:38:37Building force strength for a return to the offensiveNotable Point
  41. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    55:15Finishing the American campaign before expanding into IndiaNotable Point
  42. Empire Total War Twitch Stream 7(March 2023)
    56:33Grand strategy as joined-up thinkingNotable Point
  43. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    17:07Biomass lag and the timber-planning analogyNotable Point
  44. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    21:24Oak forests and century-scale state planningChapter
  45. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    24:11Taxes, debt, and long-term public investmentNotable Point
  46. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    28:22Canadian infrastructure and nuclear-waste planningNotable Point
  47. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    41:36Climate risk, adaptation, and energy planningNotable Point
  48. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    46:01Coalition government and long-term state capacityNotable Point
  49. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    48:55Media incentives and short-term politicsNotable Point
  50. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    51:31Post-Cold War budgeting and the counterinsurgency turnNotable Point
  51. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    1:02:10State-backed cybersecurity talentQ&A
  52. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    1:04:15Low-power computing as a resilience reserveNotable Point
  53. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    1:06:50Skilled people as strategic reservesQ&A
  54. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century
    20:43Timber stockpiles and generational planningChapter
  55. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century
    1:38:55Six years of timber in reserveNotable Point
  56. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    1:13:49No planner controls every actor or deliveryNotable Point
  57. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    37:07Political image, reality, and the value of oppositionNotable Point
  58. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    41:48German naval infrastructure and the intended war timetableQ&A
  59. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    1:15:52British rearmament planned for a war in 1942, not 1939Notable Point
  60. Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    43:36Disarmament failed when threats did not share British assumptionsNotable Point
  61. Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:22:21Closing exercise: identify a missing local investmentNotable Point
  62. French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)
    27:02Thirty cabinets kept naval policy in motionChapter
  63. French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)
    58:06Land-front dilemmas kept the navy a secondary priorityChapter
  64. Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)
    2:56:38Planning for Japan left the wrong escort balanceNotable Point
  65. Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?
    1:32:24What being prepared for war actually meansQ&A
  66. County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)
    47:19Party stereotypes and recurring defence cutsNotable Point
  67. County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)
    53:46The danger of building forces for only a short warNotable Point
  68. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    45:28Preparing for war while trying to avoid itNotable Point
  69. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    24:31An enemy response is not a fixed inputNotable Point
  70. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff
    32:37National stereotypes distorted the blockade forecastNotable Point
  71. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    34:20Ceylon made Singapore's loss a planned contingencyNotable Point
  72. Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword
    7:39US-China competition and the loss of long-term planningNotable Point
  73. For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy
    15:37How treaty limits freeze today's design assumptionsNotable Point
  74. Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions
    5:50Churchill contrasts American planning with British improvisationNotable Point