Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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War Planning

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  1. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    9:04Why the July Crisis escaped political controlChapter
  2. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    26:14Why war plans are not evidence that leaders wanted warNotable Point
  3. What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)
    1:51:48Dominion geography explains competing alliance prioritiesNotable Point
  4. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:03:22Sizing missile stockpiles for a sustained campaignQ&A
  5. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    15:29Naval Intelligence became a secretive shadow staffChapter
  6. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    18:28From Naval Intelligence to an Admiralty War StaffNotable Point
  7. What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?
    1:01:56A unified Army-Navy war plan against GermanyChapter
  8. 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
  9. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    10:44Scale and duration defeated short-war planningChapter
  10. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    15:53German rail depots exposed the route, Belgian resistance remained uncertainNotable Point
  11. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    1:08:14Why friendly navies kept war plansNotable Point
  12. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    43:58Why planning for a short Pacific war risks failureNotable Point
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    50:42How defensive strength can reduce fearful escalationQ&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    3:48:11Why Australia still planned against IndonesiaQ&A
  15. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    10:21Why navies lay minefields before warQ&A
  16. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    23:46The wartime risk in just-in-time logisticsQ&A
  17. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    49:34Modular warships still need their modules purchasedNotable Point
  18. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:18:55Why navies maintain contingency plans for hostile portsQ&A
  19. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:33:11Why navies plan even for wars with friendly powersQ&A
  20. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    53:39The 1942 rearmament horizon and Churchill's carrier pauseNotable Point
  21. Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit
    31:41Richardson's functions of naval strategyChapter
  22. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    26:06Permanent expeditionary commands before World War INotable Point
  23. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    28:04How army briefings shaped the blue-water debateNotable Point
  24. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    31:53The Naval Intelligence Department as the Royal Navy's hidden staffChapter
  25. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:01:11A proposed Admiralty staff and Sea Lord structureChapter
  26. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    1:50:32A unified war plan through the Committee of Imperial DefenceNotable Point
  27. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    2:23:46Why the Admiralty won ships but lost the strategy debateNotable Point
  28. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    2:51:47Why Germany's naval staff was less effectiveQ&A
  29. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:21:34Britain and America approached the Pacific from opposite directionsNotable Point
  30. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:24:38HMS Unicorn was presented as support rather than a carrierNotable Point
  31. Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!
    48:18King planned against Britain as a worst case and Japan as the likely enemyNotable Point
  32. Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:14:38How Royal Navy war plans evolved before 1939Q&A
  33. Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship
    29:22Wireless specialists filled a gap in the prewar naval staffNotable Point
  34. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    5:55War plans had to rest on current capabilityNotable Point
  35. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    7:01Henry May builds a school for admirals and staff officersChapter
  36. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    11:20War College studies connect Greenwich to Admiralty procurementNotable Point
  37. Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command
    45:19Richmond uses cruisers to frame presence and deterrenceNotable Point
  38. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    20:41How American assumptions ceded the initiativeNotable Point
  39. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    50:22Four decision branches after the Kido Butai is foundChapter
  40. What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 1
    4:43Why Anglo-American war plans did not make war likelyNotable Point
  41. What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 1
    5:31How staff papers gave the Army influence over policyNotable Point
  42. What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 1
    7:12The Sable Island feint in Anglo-American war planningNotable Point
  43. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    3:31:50The interwar US-Royal-Japanese naval triangleQ&A
  44. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    3:43:01Why war plans do not prove an Anglo-American war was likelyQ&A
  45. Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?
    3:15:09Would Battenberg prepare plans for unlikely wars?Q&A
  46. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    1:10:10Why Anglo-American rivalry did not imply an approaching warQ&A
  47. Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...
    2:44:20Contingency plans do not prove a likely warNotable Point
  48. Douglas TBD Devastator: Not So Bad as History Says - Key Aircraft Series 1, Aircraft 6
    36:57The Avenger replacement effort started too lateChapter
  49. If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike
    1:15:32How to test alternative surprise attacksNotable Point
  50. Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 2
    18:59Far East planning for a dangerous southern advanceNotable Point
  51. Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty
    13:26Why Anglo-American war plans did not make war likelyNotable Point
  52. WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...
    1:26:08The central lesson: small changes accumulate through a long warNotable Point
  53. Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!
    37:14War plans are prudence, not proof of intended warQ&A
  54. Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway
    4:43American war planning refused Japan's expected Pacific chargeNotable Point
  55. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    1:10:15Why War Plan Orange receives the attentionQ&A
  56. Soviet Navy 1918-1991
    3:37:09Mutual retaliation could leave room for a longer conventional warNotable Point
  57. Soviet Navy 1918-1991
    3:39:56Short-war budgets leave shortages when fighting continuesNotable Point
  58. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    14:21Jutland, Scapa Flow, and the missing fleet purposeChapter
  59. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    39:22A coastal fleet for war with Poland and FranceNotable Point
  60. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    58:07Plan Z's calendars and the Raeder-Dönitz rivalryChapter
  61. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    1:30:33The October 2022 warning that the war in Ukraine could last yearsQ&A
  62. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video
    1:34:11France's 1870 misjudgment of Prussian mobilizationQ&A
  63. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    1:13:49No planner controls every actor or deliveryNotable Point
  64. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    33:28Reasonable assumptions hide the escort-carrier requirementChapter
  65. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:24:36Essential wartime ships are hardest to justify in peaceChapter
  66. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    18:25American planning for war with Spain before 1898Notable Point
  67. Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War
    23:47Dewey's orders and the Hong Kong logistical springboardChapter
  68. Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War
    36:10From Maine's loss to war in ten weeksChapter
  69. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    2:44:38States still plan quietly for unlikely warsQ&A
  70. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    1:31:28Why long wars exhaust precision weaponsNotable Point
  71. Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))
    0:57War plans did not make conflict inevitableNotable Point
  72. Bruships 80: Books From Travels
    2:32:53Why Anglo-American war plans did not make war likelyQ&A
  73. Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    23:47Why US-Royal Navy planning papers should not be read as imminent war plansNotable Point
  74. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    19:57Japanese admirals understood the odds against themNotable Point
  75. British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)
    57:38Gibraltar investment reveals planning for war with ItalyNotable Point
  76. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    19:10Choosing the enemy that justified each serviceNotable Point
  77. Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?
    38:05Imperial defence policy and annual war planningChapter
  78. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    2:18:41Corbett and war plans that educate rather than predictNotable Point
  79. Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?
    1:13:56Were German and Japanese naval chiefs surprised by war?Q&A
  80. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder
    25:13Why the Kriegsmarine entered war least readyNotable Point
  81. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    24:08Why 9/11 challenged the assumption of optional warsQ&A
  82. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)
    2:30:04Why Britain retained war plans against the United StatesQ&A
  83. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    5:47Why Japanese preparations complicate a simple superiority narrativeNotable Point
  84. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    33:00Factional rivalry and professional competence coexisted in JapanQ&A
  85. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:02:24Political skill did not make Hitler a sound wartime strategistQ&A
  86. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:04:32Why delaying war could deepen Germany's industrial disadvantageNotable Point
  87. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:49:21Historical analysis works through choices inside their constraintsNotable Point
  88. Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW2
    2:51:24Plans fail when they assume the enemy will repeat your choicesNotable Point
  89. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    1:35:19The tanker fleet behind a larger Pearl Harbor operationQ&A
  90. Bruships 44: Strategy
    2:36:07Contingency planning can test a staff without predicting warNotable Point
  91. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    26:52Cruiser limits met expectations of a coming warNotable Point
  92. Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from
    29:24Kosovo and Bosnia show why war resists controlNotable Point
  93. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:08:25Should von Spee have driven the whole squadron into Port Stanley?Q&A
  94. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:14:32Why Germany could neither hold nor safely withdraw its overseas squadronQ&A
  95. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    1:23:36The overseas squadron that impressed in peace became a wartime liabilityNotable Point
  96. Four Random Books 23: 1930s Thinking...
    12:02Interwar Royal Navy preparation and threat assumptionsChapter
  97. WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol
    34:57War plans built on the last warNotable Point
  98. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    21:10Operation Royal Marine and the cost of delayNotable Point
  99. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    1:41:57Why Britain reinforced Canada during the US Civil WarQ&A
  100. Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered
    59:21Why an Anglo-Japanese coalition alarmed US plannersQ&A
  101. Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!
    1:08:58Why reserve a strike carrier behind the fleet?Q&A
  102. The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)
    22:11A French Indochina contingency that required a larger navyNotable Point