Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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  1. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    1:07:04American standard battleships facing a faster opponentChapter
  2. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    14:47Ending the Anglo-Japanese alliance changes other relationshipsNotable Point
  3. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    25:25Italy’s advantage and France’s interrupted naval responseChapter
  4. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    48:15Carrier funding still depends on sea trade and politicsNotable Point
  5. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    54:25Destroyer authorisation is separate from fundingNotable Point
  6. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    1:02:39A race for better ships within political budgetsNotable Point
  7. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:56:33An unrestricted British fast battleship and the gun-size raceQ&A
  8. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:27:58Obstacles to invading Canada during the Civil WarNotable Point
  9. The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered
    9:23Nineteen battleships outpace sixteen early destroyersNotable Point
  10. The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered
    33:43Naval acts demand speed inside a fixed destroyer cost capNotable Point
  11. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    8:23American opinion and a separate European warNotable Point
  12. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    48:58Congress authorizes war after the Axis declarationsChapter
  13. Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?
    51:36Sam Rayburn and a hypothetical European war voteNotable Point
  14. The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More
    1:22:26A recollection of selective Mahan quotation in CongressNotable Point
  15. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    9:45The 1915 Naval Act combined fleet planning with a constrained destroyer orderChapter
  16. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    38:20The 1916 Naval Act shifted destroyers to mass procurementChapter
  17. The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global
    1:16:34Reserve destroyers gave the U.S. Navy room to develop and operateNotable Point
  18. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    33:43War powers and legal framing in the Venezuela raid debateNotable Point
  19. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    2:55:03A battleship label may be procurement strategyQ&A
  20. Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?
    1:18:35The declarations removed America's political barriersQ&A
  21. Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships
    48:30Why U.S. naval capability depended on congressional fundingNotable Point
  22. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    5:46:29The institutional logic behind Treasury and Congress cutsQ&A
  23. Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception
    41:51What if Cunningham commanded the British Pacific Fleet?Notable Point
  24. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    17:48How an intact fleet reshapes Allied bargainingChapter
  25. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    26:16The fragile politics behind naval limitationChapter
  26. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    21:28Midway lessons for fighters, torpedo bombers, and screensChapter
  27. Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.
    27:15Congress turns a class into a technology demonstratorChapter
  28. Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.
    34:22The Navy's sudden 2008 reversal toward more BurkesChapter
  29. Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...
    2:19:14Could the U.S. Navy restore Commodore?Q&A
  30. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    32:35Congress and interwar U.S. naval growthNotable Point
  31. The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality
    2:27:44What if Congress had codified the Monroe Doctrine?Q&A
  32. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    1:27:50How peacetime exchange helped Japan become a naval peerNotable Point
  33. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    0:20Why war with Japan looked different in American politicsChapter
  34. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    58:18Roosevelt's congressional hardball optionNotable Point
  35. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    56:29Heavy American frigates still faced a two-deck disadvantageNotable Point
  36. Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...
    2:12:55American battle-fleet politics still limit speedNotable Point
  37. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:12:11Ship names can protect naval procurementNotable Point
  38. Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier
    1:03:12National strategy sets each navy's logistical ceilingNotable Point
  39. Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    3:22:34Leaving NATO would trigger a U.S. constitutional fightNotable Point
  40. The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier
    58:47Flight demonstrations built political supportNotable Point
  41. The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier
    1:11:11Proving aircraft recovery in front of lawmakersNotable Point
  42. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    4:07:34How battleship prestige starved the early US balanced fleetQ&A
  43. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    13:15American entry begins correcting a top-heavy fleetNotable Point
  44. Imperial Russia Survives WWI: A Patreon Requested Alternate History
    50:50U.S. naval procurement loses its political generationNotable Point
  45. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    1:09:14The light-cruiser shortage exposed prewar procurement lagNotable Point
  46. Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s
    23:52Moffett turns helicopters into a funded naval programChapter
  47. What kind of Carrier do you need or want?
    1:20:08Treaty limits and actual fleet strength divergedNotable Point
  48. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    51:04A 1924 flight-deck-cruiser counterfactualNotable Point
  49. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    36:32Budget systems shape how navies answer a ship raceQ&A
  50. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:54:18Why US pre-dreadnought gun calibers variedQ&A
  51. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    2:06:45Parliament, Congress, and naval procurementQ&A
  52. Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers
    1:28:31Would the United States expand battleship production?Q&A
  53. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:11:37How institutions shaped British, American, and Japanese ship plansNotable Point
  54. US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response
    32:02Congress and the Navy divide over nuclear surface shipsQ&A
  55. HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 3
    28:42Why British and American institutions approached warship risk differentlyNotable Point
  56. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    3:53Speed compromises meet American sea-power politicsNotable Point
  57. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    7:58Charles Boutelle turns naval experience into political powerChapter
  58. Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 11
    13:39George Melville makes the engineering case for ColumbiaChapter
  59. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1941
    4:16Turn the Yamato class into public deterrenceNotable Point
  60. Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)
    27:42Why obsolete force names survived changing missionsNotable Point
  61. Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)
    22:23The Washington cruiser loophole and industrial capacityNotable Point
  62. Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    1:00:26Naval treaties as British fiscal coverNotable Point
  63. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    2:20:44Who turned Tillman's demands into battleship drawingsQ&A
  64. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    6:03Mahan and the selling power of decisive battleNotable Point
  65. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    50:20Yamato and the missed deterrent messageNotable Point
  66. Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
    2:20:21Q&A: fiscal choices shaped the Washington settlementQ&A
  67. Sherman's March to the Sea
    27:48Volunteer ranks complicated command hierarchyNotable Point
  68. Sherman's March to the Sea
    36:53Sherman and the small professional U.S. ArmyNotable Point
  69. Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI
    2:16:21How the Royal Navy approved a warship designQ&A
  70. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-7
    4:03Delaware-class machinery trials and industrial politicsNotable Point
  71. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA
    18:30Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. represents fierce opposition to Lend-LeaseNotable Point
  72. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA
    37:34Allied orders accelerate American industrial mobilizationChapter
  73. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    1:40:35The Lend-Lease Act's deliberately broad authorityChapter
  74. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    1:50:27Congressional reporting with wide presidential discretionChapter
  75. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond
    30:26Taranto becomes a lesson for Pacific naviesChapter
  76. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond
    36:08Japan follows up while John Opie's warning stallsNotable Point
  77. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    34:50Roosevelt's political room for material aidNotable Point