Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Suez Canal

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  1. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    31:09Russian access to open oceans and the problem of chokepointsChapter
  2. What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?
    58:27Suez, Gibraltar, and the race to mobilise reservesChapter
  3. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    55:08Fuel load, full displacement and Suez accessNotable Point
  4. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:25:07Shipping routes if radiation closes the Suez CanalQ&A
  5. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    3:50:27Helicopter drone interception during a canal transitNotable Point
  6. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:25:02Italian strategy after controlling the MediterraneanQ&A
  7. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:26:01Common designs and Suez logistics in a fictional British EmpireQ&A
  8. Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:29:51Warship draft is set by harbours and canals, not a universal maximumQ&A
  9. Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:59:56The Canal of the Pharaohs surviving into the seventeenth centuryQ&A
  10. What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)
    36:31Russo-Japanese War cooperation without interventionChapter
  11. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    46:27A smaller Italian battle fleet frees Queen Elizabeth-class shipsNotable Point
  12. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    51:05North African airfields reopen a fast convoy route to SuezNotable Point
  13. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    29:26Sims and Mahan provide complementary primary-source views of sea powerNotable Point
  14. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:11:16How independent bases shape Britain's route to the Far EastNotable Point
  15. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...
    3:24:12An Allied Italy in 1939 frees the Mediterranean route and strengthens the Far EastQ&A
  16. Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare
    52:38Canal transits could require crews aboard uncrewed shipsNotable Point
  17. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:53:27Greece and Italy join the Central PowersQ&A
  18. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:46:15The Mediterranean Fleet reinforces the Far EastChapter
  19. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:49:24Could experienced forces from Egypt reach Malaya in time?Notable Point
  20. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    48:37Mines, deck guns, and Japanese patrols in the submarine warChapter
  21. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    59:47Gallipoli and Suez gave secondary fronts major strategic stakesNotable Point
  22. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    7:40:02Panama Canal limits versus British heavy-weather requirementsQ&A
  23. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    2:56:18Taking Egypt would make the Ottoman Empire Britain's priority targetQ&A
  24. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:08:16An earlier natural Suez passage and the route to IndiaQ&A
  25. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    7:14:50If the Sinai Peninsula vanished when the Suez Canal openedQ&A
  26. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I
    2:28:31How a natural Suez strait changes maritime historyQ&A
  27. Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!
    37:09Nearly finished carriers that Japan could not useChapter
  28. Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:08:45Why sail-assisted cargo ships remain difficultQ&A
  29. Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...
    48:17Why short-range drone swarms are a chokepoint dangerNotable Point
  30. Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?
    9:53Coastal boats traded stores for forward accessChapter
  31. How effective was the Russian Navy
    20:17Torpedo-boat innovation under the threat of British interventionChapter
  32. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...
    30:46A French purchase of the Suez Canal sharesQ&A
  33. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    54:27Royal Navy plans for threats around Suez after 1945Q&A
  34. Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…
    42:15Strategic reserves make convoy disruption survivableNotable Point
  35. Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5
    28:12Maritime security in a multipolar worldChapter
  36. Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5
    33:13Residual risk can close a sea lane without sinking most shipsNotable Point
  37. The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 7
    1:15:23What would really stop a Suez Canal from being builtQ&A
  38. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:23:18A Roman ship canal through SuezQ&A
  39. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    3:26:20When a Roman Suez canal would threaten PersiaQ&A
  40. Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song
    3:13:39The Great White Fleet's vulnerability to losing its coaling networkQ&A
  41. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    1:13:37Arctic routes without Suez and PanamaQ&A
  42. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    4:00:44Would missing canals favour nuclear-powered cargo ships?Q&A
  43. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    3:20Why Suez makes Panama financially imaginableChapter
  44. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    20:30Suez turns the Mediterranean into a world linkChapter
  45. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    21:46An empire defended from the Atlantic and Indian OceanNotable Point
  46. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    23:54Preventing Suez requires an extreme changeNotable Point
  47. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    25:07Cape-route trade elevates South African portsNotable Point
  48. Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?
    26:19A blocked Suez reveals systemic trade riskNotable Point
  49. What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier
    43:43Britain's three-power problem and the Suez lifelineNotable Point
  50. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:04:15Canals, dry docks, and an Admiral-class carrierQ&A
  51. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    27:24The Panama Canal sets the Lexingtons' design boundariesNotable Point
  52. F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 3
    42:55Canals and infrastructure impose different carrier-design limitsNotable Point
  53. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    43:00Royal Navy infrastructure cycles and wartime delayNotable Point
  54. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    50:55Suez becomes the Axis pressure pointChapter
  55. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    54:41A secure Indian Ocean allows mobile fleet support to move westNotable Point
  56. So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 3
    6:10Map maritime trade and cable chokepointsNotable Point
  57. Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?
    3:53:58Could von Spee have brought his squadron home before the war?Q&A
  58. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:10:05Could a Yamato-class battleship pass through Suez?Q&A
  59. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    33:43Giant battleships face more than a Panama lock limitQ&A
  60. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:08:44Panama Canal limits favored compact American machineryQ&A
  61. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:03:04Naval strategy without Suez or PanamaQ&A
  62. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:14:43Why France built Suez and Britain bought itQ&A
  63. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:25:20Britain's interest in canals paid for by othersQ&A
  64. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    28:10International status does not prevent de facto closure at GibraltarQ&A
  65. Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War
    1:44:49An 18,000-mile voyage delivered an exhausted fleetChapter
  66. Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett
    24:32Energy change still leaves trade routes to protectNotable Point
  67. Future Maritime Strategy: Beyond Cable and Corbett
    37:23Trade density explains the value of Gibraltar and other chokepointsChapter
  68. The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore
    44:03Sydney adds eleven days to the fleet's deploymentNotable Point
  69. Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?
    1:12:12Why Sydney would require fast fleet oilersNotable Point
  70. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    3:23:31Testing a sealift claim against route geographyNotable Point
  71. What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?
    41:05The flotilla's mission was to squeeze the Suez supply routeChapter
  72. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    3:20:34Suez, oil shocks, and the economics of tanker routesNotable Point
  73. Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses
    38:17How Soviet naval ambition could fuel an international arms raceChapter
  74. Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 6
    5:14Designing for the Mediterranean and Suez accessChapter
  75. The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?
    34:40The imperial geography behind a British sea-control assumptionNotable Point
  76. HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 4
    11:33The difficult delivery voyage to MelbourneChapter
  77. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    1:33:18The overlooked submarine war in the Indian OceanNotable Point
  78. Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources
    4:11:08Vulnerable coalition sea routes and a possible Italian defectionNotable Point
  79. Logistics of Colonisation: Looking to the Past to Voyage to the Stars
    33:18Cape-to-Cairo rail promised a shortcut to SuezNotable Point
  80. German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII
    2:08:18French trade geography undermined the Deutschland raiding missionNotable Point
  81. Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)
    4:18Suez draft and coaling limit European reinforcementsNotable Point
  82. Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 2
    17:48A Red Sea flagship for Italian imperial ambitionChapter
  83. Bruships 88: Way of War
    2:24:49How air attack could disrupt the Suez Canal without destroying itChapter
  84. Velasco Class(1881): 19th Century Cruisers p5
    12:58The Black Squadron's unprotected reinforcementsChapter
  85. General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p3
    22:00Great-power warships intervene in CreteChapter
  86. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    1:20:58A global cruiser war constrained by coal and diplomacyChapter
  87. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:31:03Cámara's relief squadron reaches the Red Sea too lateChapter
  88. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    2:41:46What a neutrality warning meant at SuezQ&A
  89. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    58:45A British-influenced Panama Canal modeled on SuezQ&A
  90. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    37:33Mediterranean geography narrows the cruiser missionChapter
  91. Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    18:33Maritime chokepoints turn distant disruptions into national riskNotable Point
  92. Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    1:02:22Why British security extends along global trade routesChapter
  93. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...
    4:15:10What a commerce-raiding force needsQ&A
  94. Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...
    31:04Which positions control Mediterranean access?Q&A
  95. All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    10:11Ocean range and canal limits in a cruiser designNotable Point
  96. The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu
    12:27How did trade cross Egypt before the Suez Canal?Q&A
  97. Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"
    2:05:39Why Suez mattered more than Panama to Royal Navy designQ&A
  98. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)
    15:13LNG carriers demand exceptional transit protectionQ&A
  99. Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 8
    27:40Terror's difficult passage to SingaporeNotable Point
  100. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/4
    28:18Why the Regia Marina was Britain's strategically awkward opponentNotable Point
  101. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    1:14:16A World War II-era fleet in the Ottoman EmpireQ&A
  102. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    1:40:09Without Suez, Gibraltar seals the MediterraneanQ&A
  103. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions
    1:00:40Sicily, Italy's surrender, and the end of the Suez threatQ&A
  104. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy
    1:37Suez and Britain's route back eastNotable Point
  105. Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1783
    2:50:41Would losing Gibraltar have redirected British imperial ambitions?Q&A
  106. “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”
    1:56:51Why wartime canal transits are dangerous for carriersQ&A
  107. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 1906
    7:42Corbett, commerce war, and Britain's coaling networkChapter
  108. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    1:20:36Middle Eastern trade routes offer an economic interpretation of the CrusadesChapter
  109. Bruships 44: Strategy
    1:53:08An inland campaign could depend on a maritime supply routeNotable Point
  110. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    1:21:39Why Ever Given was so difficult to handle in the Suez CanalNotable Point
  111. Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies
    2:52:38How long could a Suez Canal blockage last?Q&A
  112. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    32:18Italy threatened Britain's imperial maritime highwayChapter
  113. Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P3/6 1904
    14:47How close Dogger Bank came to a wider warChapter
  114. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    25:46Why an unrestricted gun race might revive mixed batteriesQ&A
  115. Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...
    10:27Why the Great White Fleet did not visit BritainChapter
  116. Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context
    25:27Global commitments drove Royal Navy force requirementsChapter
  117. Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora
    2:04:09Why Barfleur served in the MediterraneanQ&A
  118. Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora
    2:13:06Suez did not impose a Panama-style cruiser constraintQ&A
  119. Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?
    9:31Gallipoli inside the wider crisis of early 1915Chapter
  120. Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?
    1:56:52Why Anzac forces had a strategic stake at GallipoliNotable Point
  121. Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War
    16:56Indian Ocean trade routes shape the Singapore reinforcement planNotable Point
  122. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:06:40Battleship downsizing served Britain's cruiser prioritiesQ&A
  123. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    17:42Canal nationalisation as brinkmanshipChapter
  124. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    29:04Seizing an intact canal without locksNotable Point
  125. What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)
    47:57The canal, imperial logistics, and American primacyChapter
  126. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    12:24The Officer Coup Britain and France ExpectedNotable Point
  127. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    16:46What Washington Might Have Done if Nasser FellQ&A
  128. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    21:49Why Suez Has No Simple First BelligerentQ&A
  129. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    24:58Nationalisation as a Military SeizureQ&A
  130. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    27:32Why Suez Was Outgrown Without Panama-Style ExpansionNotable Point
  131. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    45:03Suez and the “East of Suez” ProblemQ&A
  132. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    48:34The Canal as a Strategic LifelineChapter
  133. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    1:21:29The Canal and Britain’s Far East LifelineQ&A
  134. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    2:12:41From Regional Bomber War to NATO Escalation and SettlementChapter
  135. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    2:32:04Why Land Dominates the CanalQ&A
  136. Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty
    2:34:53Why Panama’s Locks Create a Different VulnerabilityNotable Point
  137. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    2:31A diversion to an Eastern Mediterranean short of carriersChapter
  138. Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era
    49:21Egypt, the Suez Canal, and the road to AlexandriaChapter
  139. An Introduction to Victorian Naval Diplomacy
    10:51Alexandria 1882: intervention to protect foreign nationalsChapter
  140. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    1:55:33Redeploying the Pacific fleet through SuezNotable Point
  141. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    15:37Defeat Japan, enforce a blockade, then redeployChapter
  142. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    49:39Mediterranean sea control protects the Suez routeChapter
  143. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    54:39Far Eastern munitions and the Cape delayNotable Point
  144. An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)
    5:52The sea lanes that made the Indian Ocean strategicChapter
  145. Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:31:17What if Britain and France had remained at SuezQ&A
  146. 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…
    42:26Maritime policing and the defence premiumChapter
  147. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:36:13Canals and seaways become wartime chokepointsQ&A
  148. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A
    55:05Gibraltar and Suez as Mediterranean naval gatesQ&A
  149. Cruise of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video
    1:34Psychological commerce warfare in the South AtlanticNotable Point