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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:21:13Sea Lion, the Isle of Wight and Britain's 1940 aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:26:02An uncertain account of a Gurkha defenderNotable Point
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:29:07A French sortie at Mers-el-KebirQ&A
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!3:47How wartime construction made frigates the cheaper optionNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!2:05:20From ASDIC escorts to uncrewed submarine-hunting groupsChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII0:00Sea defence ships and Japan's escort requirementChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII3:23Escort output against Japan's industrial capacityNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII17:31Exercise incentives and mistaken expectations of air attackNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII30:33More capable escorts arriving in 1943-45Notable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII41:26A short-war force facing a longer conflictNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII55:47Planned ships, completed ships and repeat frigate ordersNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII59:05No. 1's loss and the air-cover requirement of small escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:49Ordering industrial tooling before the Second World WarQ&A
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?49:54Could Dido cruisers have led more Tribal flotillas?Notable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?0:16What lessons from British rearmament before 1939 apply today?Q&A
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?47:49Buying cargoes to deny enemy suppliesNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one0:00Allied destroyer production and misleading class namesChapter
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:57:12Italy backing Poland and exposing Germany's Austrian borderQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:01:26A reference for wartime combined-operations trainingQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:03:40Royal Navy submarine strength and wartime interdictionQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:32:46The Tizard Mission as a two-way technology exchangeQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:40:10Choosing a modern Royal Navy ship for the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:27:45A Free French naval command in the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:30A Starship's Mage character as an Allied wartime leaderQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:35Eisenhower with a modern Tomahawk arsenal shipQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:19Argentine war entry and Graf Spee's South Atlantic optionsQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:00A modern Royal Navy in World War II: capability and ammunition limitsQ&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...35:15Long destroyer careers: Skate and a Siamese survivorNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...38:34Why mines posed such a serious destroyer threatNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...42:04S-class ships as late-war strength and a later reserveNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...47:21The V and W classes and their shared design inheritanceChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...51:10V and W survivors and the forty cancelled shipsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...59:53Cancelled orders and the Scrap Iron FlotillaNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:08:59Admiralty flotilla leaders and their fighting layoutChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:12:37Wartime availability and the cost of sustained speedNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:25:42Modern US vehicles in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:37:33Explosive boats before the attack on USS ColeQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:15:09The institutions brought together to create the NHSNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:42:42Wartime internment and fifth-column fearsQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:54:30Invading a fortified island in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:05:46Unusual inventions that worked during the warQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:18:55Digital computers among wartime inventionsQ&A
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...39:00Could longer-lived M-class hulls have served as World War II escorts?Notable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:18Luring German ships into naval trapsQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:47Gramophones and sailors' dance musicQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:03The cost of giving Meteor an anti-ship roleNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:42Gas and incendiary plans against a German invasionQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:16American ships in a Mers-el-Kébir counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:36Why a submarine-only fleet could simplify British defenceNotable Point
- Momi to Kagero - The Story of the Japanese 1920s & 1930s Destroyer Program24:41Kamikaze ships from Wake Island to war's endNotable Point
- Momi to Kagero - The Story of the Japanese 1920s & 1930s Destroyer Program1:27:50What Asashio's wartime losses can tell usNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live16:55Coastal defence ships in ocean escort serviceQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live29:35Late warships with reciprocating expansion enginesQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live30:49Prize money and the incentive to capture enemy shipsQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live45:03Mining canals to disrupt inland navigationQ&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam1:09:00Planning a frigate for conflicts its navy hopes to avoidNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?10:00Italian naval leadership under MussoliniNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?10:56Late construction and the class naming schemeChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?12:39Cruiser priority and the destroyer construction gapChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?14:20Cruiser tonnage versus destroyer numbersNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?25:46Late series and the disputed four percent claimChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?37:18Judging first-generation radar on its own termsNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?42:51Distributed shipyards and a design that came too lateChapter
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:09Choosing a naval posting in 1939 without knowing the war's outcomeQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live46:12American and British obstacles to wartime ship productionQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live46:47Shipyard firefighting with seawaterNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live48:16American steel output racing shipyard expansionQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live49:20Precautionary overordering and wartime coordinationNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live50:42Portland steel expansion and its environmental costsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live54:20British labor transfers between carriers and corvettesNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live56:02Why repeated steel expansion could postpone repairsQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live57:44Could earlier American escort orders have eased wartime expansion?Q&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live59:28Japan's limits on expanding steel productionNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:00:08Italian infrastructure and German design complexityQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:14:39Were stimulants behind the beachmaster's endurance?Q&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:21:36A recollection of bereavement in special-forces selectionNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:45:09Capital-ship main guns against aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:50:09Bismarck and Tirpitz: reputation and operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:53:28Comparing Mediterranean air attacks with Pacific battlesNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:41:51An Allied attack on the Soviet Union after Germany's defeatQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:43:31Why continue the war against the Soviet Union?Q&A
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?31:34Layered air defence and different gun rangesNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?40:59Surface raiders and diversion from a decisive theatreNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:46:09Why Churchill rejected peace talks in 1940Chapter
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:47:20Mers-el-Kebir and the collapse of Anglo-French trustChapter
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:03:32Fire watching and the defence of familiesNotable Point
- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous2:11:10Churchill's support for Tube AlloysChapter
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:14The gold standard and the case for Churchill in 1940Notable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:55Spanish neutrality limits Italian submarine basing plansNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:38The cost of annexation in a hypothetical Anglo-Argentine warQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:32World War II without Lend-Lease or US interventionQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:10Britain's postwar status would turn on war length and the atomic projectQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:53Berlin as a target in a British atomic-war counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:32Could a British bomber escape its own atomic attack?Q&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:06How Norway and French radios could change the early warQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:241945 US air-defence technology would transform early Axis engagementsQ&A
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class12:37Why the historical Alaskas arrived too lateChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs53:11The uneasy symbolism of HMS CampbeltownNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live18:32Guadalcanal's logistics warChapter
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live16:42Mers-el-Kebir as a communications failureQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:34:52Limits of closer German-Japanese naval cooperationQ&A
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars5:31What an ordinary destroyer career can showNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars35:26Celtic Sea escort work and the Vanquisher collisionChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars48:28High-priority convoys and a 1943 conversionChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars51:19Arctic convoy JW 57 and a trusted escortChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars52:48Operation Neptune and a return to the ArcticChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars55:06Atlantic patrols and the 1945 stand-downChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars56:20Adaptable hulls and long-term procurementNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:59What does a war 'scheduled' after 1942 mean?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:42:09Three paths to a delayed world warChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:53:52Would a delayed war be longer or shorter?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:57:40How late can a European war plausibly be delayed?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:07:53Peacetime does not supply the Luftwaffe's wartime lessonsQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:30:13A better prepared European land warChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)3:27:24What has to change for the European war to be delayed?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)3:33:47A coordinated German-Italian war in 1942Chapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)3:37:09Nuclear weapons remain unlikely by 1942Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:53:57Would acceptance of the Gleiwitz pretext prevent a wider war?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:59:30British finances depend on the shape of the warQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:12Why the Regia Marina did not challenge the Malta air planQ&A
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America0:07The logistical price of bypassing Pearl HarborChapter
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live44:06More fighters at Midway: capability has a priceQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:03:00If Japan had attacked the Soviet Union in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:56Soviet supply alternatives if Japan closed the Pacific routeNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:06:34What low water can reveal about Danube warship wrecksQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:30:30British distrust of the French government in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:54:54A modern-scale Polish force translated into 1939Q&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:04:58Why modern Polish air power is difficult to translate into 1939Notable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:09:49More Grom-class destroyers in a stronger 1939 Polish fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:02:53Canada's military reputation and the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:17:31The German surface fleet as a fleet in beingQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:38:32Why Canadian Vickers was considered for Hellcat productionQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live5:00:51A stronger Graf Zeppelin and the Royal Navy responseQ&A
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?0:18Why the French fleet changes the Allied balanceChapter
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?19:19Why Britain would not gamble on ambiguous French ordersChapter
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?1:08:28How the French fleet changes the war without deciding itNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:26An elderly Beatty would be kept in a policy roleQ&A
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...0:00Why Germany needed a credible destroyer forceChapter
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 222:29Mitsumasa Yonai's wartime political powerQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 230:34Five Nimitz carriers in Vietnam or early World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:45:17Charles de Gaulle sent back to the Free FrenchQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:20:22What Finland buys if Brewster collapses before the warQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:04:03World War II with allied Japan and neutral ItalyQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:07:18Asian trade and Britain's war economy with an allied JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:08:36Irish neutrality and the risks of a British interventionNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:00:00Soldati's gun battery and reported accuracy problemsChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:02:47Soldati star-shell guns and fifth-gun refitsNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:03:44Soldati production, attrition, and competing constructionChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:07:08Soldati machinery derating and service speedNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:08:39Why Italian ships remained torpedo-boat destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:43Could a democratic Hitler still lead to war?Q&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:41Admiral Cowan's extraordinary return to warNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:17If Queen Mary had been sunk in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:50Lanchester equations and disabling hits at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:32If Sweden had joined Norway's 1940 campaignQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:13Why doubling Type 93 torpedo range would not guarantee hitsQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:21Why the same war dominates one curriculum and barely enters anotherNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:20Why Operation C3 would struggle to take MaltaQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:36A restored Habsburg state confronting HitlerQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:25Separate Northern and Southern states in the world warsQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...15:37From wartime flexibility to peacetime disciplineNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...17:14Demobilization and transferable military skillsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...19:46Walter Cowan's return to combat in his seventiesNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Mutinees... Volunteer Baltic & Invergordon...1:26:14Punishment and the end of Tomkinson's active careerNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:08HMS Rodney's torpedo attack on BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:04Britain's beer-brewing support shipsQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:34Prewar American battleships for AustraliaQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:04Grant and MacArthur in a Philippines command counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:22Ships disguised as islands and foliageQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:24Military innovations that moved into civilian lifeQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:37How aerial refueling could have changed World War II bombingQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:29Thirty Buccaneers arriving in Britain in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:00Eight Dutch heavy cruisers at the start of World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:15A large Danish cruiser force on the eve of World War IIQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today43:55World War II demands stable destroyer gun platformsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today47:07DesRon 21 shows why destroyer screens need autonomyNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered24:02From Jeune Ecole shortcuts to flotilla defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:25Choosing between Yorktown, Shokaku, and IllustriousQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:18Shokaku-class carriers with B7A Ryusei strike aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:18Replacing the Grand Fleet with 1940s counterpartsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:16World War I dreadnoughts against a World War II King George VQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:53Axis response to a Mosquito-mounted bouncing bombQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:04Omar Bradley's reputation and coalition-command frictionNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:36How large could neutral Turkey's wartime navy become?Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:54Judging wartime commanders without modern intelligenceNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:20Sustaining a Flower-class corvette before TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:40A World War II US Navy appearing in 1910Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:09How Germany used occupied foreign shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:28:12A High Seas Fleet rebuilt with World War II counterpartsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:23North Sea oil available before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:42Why Baltimore is the Pacific heavy-cruiser choiceQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:50Japanese submarine torpedo kills in war and exercisesQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:42Ice cream, rum, and naval barter in the wartime PacificQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:00Warspite replaced by a Vanguard-class battleship in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:39Narvik as an accurately reported but underhyped naval battleQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:56A Lyon-class battleship with the Free FrenchQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:42South Dakota's Guadalcanal failure as an engineering chainQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:10Rodney's captain planned to fight through to the beachesNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:20Historical experiments with towed naval force multipliersQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:46Why the sabotage counterfactual selects British ASDICQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:14Why a prolonged war favored the AlliesNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:34Intercepting the Norway invasion force could change the warQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:42Swedish transit concessions and Finland's constrained choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:54Britain could enforce blockade with contracts as well as cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:09Why smaller torpedoes could cripple BlucherQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:44A 1937 3-inch/70 would reshape Royal Navy air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:42How torpedoes, gunfire, and fire combined to sink BlucherQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?1:01:54A larger fast fleet undermines the German Panzerschiff conceptChapter
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?1:03:03Fast battleships alter Mediterranean operations and Denmark StraitChapter
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:46Harwich Force would turn the Channel Dash into a fleet actionQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:28Dud weapons at Pearl Harbor preserve the US battle fleetQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:27Unsolved ship losses depend on incomplete physical and survivor evidenceQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:22Retaking the Channel Islands would use overwhelming post-Normandy sea and air powerQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:14A large German bottom mine defeats cruiser-class comparisonsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:40:07Destroyer harassment hurt Bismarck chiefly through crew fatigueQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:56The Morgenthau Plan made political sense before its human costs were countedQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:36Ten Australian T-class submarines would reshape Pacific confidenceQ&A
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?3:48Squadron assignment does not dictate a ship's wartime employmentNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:08The Normandy gun line and its staying powerQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:31Chamberlain, rearmament, and the search for timeQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:23The loss of SS President CoolidgeQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:52The Royal Navy's costliest Second World War mistakesQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:03Royal Oak and the dispute over responsibility for Scapa FlowNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:07Why sustained high speed gave destroyers 'turbinitis'Notable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:26Destroying the Panama Canal in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:57A British Pacific-first strategy in 1939Q&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?57:53British decline appears as a sequence of economic shocksNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:25:39Extra carriers do not erase the Allies' industrial advantageNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy27:26Taking a river paddle steamer from Bengal toward IraqChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...29:08World War I's submarine crisis shaped later Atlantic readinessNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:45Would Italian neutrality preserve naval cooperation with Spain?Q&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:30Choosing a Second World War submarine by theaterQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:50How an early Big Inch pipeline would reduce coastal tanker dependenceQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...24:01Maneuvering tests and survivabilityNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...40:41Radar interference and electronic shieldingNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...18:52German battlefield skill and horse-dependent logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:33German ocean supply ships and stern refuellingQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:33The Maginot Line and the reserves behind a fortified frontNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:39Why outside metalwork cannot fill a shipyard's order bookQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:32Britain's buried wartime fuel-distribution networkNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:36What an impossibly large 1939 Royal Navy would changeQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:48What pink ship camouflage was meant to doQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:19How ocean-liner races affected naviesQ&A
- The Theoretical Purity of Wunderweapons vs the Messy Reality of Production0:33Wunderweapons versus production realityNotable Point
- The Theoretical Purity of Wunderweapons vs the Messy Reality of Production1:02Liberty ships and industrial replacementNotable Point
- The Theoretical Purity of Wunderweapons vs the Messy Reality of Production1:17Built Allied equipment and the wonder-weapon labelNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:29Torpedo reliability as a testing lessonQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:20Raeder and Dönitz as peacetime and wartime naval leadersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:39R-class battleships guarding convoys from German raidersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:25Why convoy battleships did not chase raidersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:05Prewar U.S. 5-, 6-, and 8-inch autoloadersQ&A
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)50:28Why the 1920s and 1930s are called the interwar periodQ&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:59The uncertain HMS Nelson anti-aircraft anecdoteNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development28:41Including Norway's defence in the battles of NarvikNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development50:46Tribal-class guns support night torpedo attacksChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development55:22Battle-class armament reflects a wartime design pauseNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:01Imperial Japan and the unwinnable-war questionQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:48Could Germany or Japan hide a 1945 nuclear test?Q&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:31Royal Navy camouflage after 1945 and radar's limitsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:23Soviet troop numbers versus amphibious lift for JapanQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:07A Pacific Rim kaiju attacks San Francisco in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:13Japanese army-navy friction and wasted industryQ&A
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII0:13Why IKEA appears in a Swedish destroyer historyNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII0:58Swedish destroyers make every amphibious approach uncertainChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII3:52Swedish alert policy makes invasion costlyNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII5:20Ragnar's modest weapons still complicate an invasionNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII24:15Klas Horn and Klas Uggla expand mine capacity at modest costChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII26:43Explosions, burning oil, and depth charges devastate HårsfjärdenChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII30:44The Hårsfjärden sabotage finding leaves the culprit unresolvedNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII32:39Expanded wartime crews change the risks of live-weapon trainingNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII34:48The Göteborg program expands from two ships to six as war approachesChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII41:55Visby commissioning strengthens Sweden during a volatile Baltic endgameNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:24:39Britain's economic losses accumulated across several crisesNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:50:00War-loan repayment and the limits of the accountNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:16:09Why Chamberlain could not remain a wartime prime ministerQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:31:01Alliance survival changes the paths into World War IIQ&A
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate15:32The Dutch Navy's missing professional chiefNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate24:13Wartime losses reveal the force-depth problemNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate33:05Sincere expectations of peace and the means to defend sovereigntyNotable Point
- Bruships8:20Wartime consolidation and the origins of the NHSNotable Point
- Bruships9:36Henry Kaiser, Liberty ships, and workforce benefitsNotable Point
- Bruships21:25A French navy still at war and British forces in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- Bruships35:41Deutschland-class carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:13Resources versus armies in postwar border makingQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:47A surprise R-class bombardment in 1940Notable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:38British fireships against invasion harborsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:26Why the Allies did not count every Axis war-crimes participantQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans33:46Why warship yard labor was not interchangeableNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans59:44A 1933 Scandinavian defense pactQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:04:01A Nordic pact could lean toward Germany, Poland, or neutralityNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:10:37How many admirals could gather on one ship?Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:16:20Type XXI knowledge in 1936Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:18:22Armed tugs against U-boatsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)14:41French naval logistics reshape the scenarioChapter
- 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
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)22:11Brest and Toulon make the French fleet hard to ignoreNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)26:06Béarn is limited but still usefulNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)30:52Submarine treaty limits left France and Italy more freedomNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)47:00Overseas formations make France a worldwide operating navyChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:12:59Darlan is the hinge for a whole-fleet evacuationChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:20:38France's government collapsed before its capacity to fightNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:21:40Free French North Africa squeezes Italian LibyaChapter
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:41:41Allied victories still have to convince American skepticsNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?0:00Churchill applies the wrong shipbuilding lessonChapter
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?3:20New ships could replace old crews and compound fleet strengthNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?17:01Earlier King George V-class battleships change the Bismarck problemNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?24:35Earlier carrier completion would create maintenance timeNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?41:38A triple-carrier Taranto could create lasting superiorityNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?45:03A heavier Taranto strike could keep Crete and cut Axis suppliesNotable Point
- 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
- 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
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?53:48Finishing Graf Zeppelin diverts resources from U-boatsNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?56:30Preparing to meet a German carrier and battleship groupNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:05:17Earlier cruisers could give Force Z a proper screenNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:09:17A larger Force Z complicates Japan's opening movesNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:22:43Later escort gains do not outweigh the major-ship delaysChapter
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?8:25Early success evading aircraft feeds later overconfidenceNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?29:29Eagle turns an improvised conversion into useful air coverNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:54Roosevelt instead of Truman at PotsdamQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:03Why nicotine access was not an admiral's problemQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:39Ceylon as the Royal Navy Far East baseQ&A
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?41:38How a submarine-only German fleet would change British deploymentsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?5:54Z1 against the Normandy screenNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?10:51Isaac Sweers's rescues and loss to U-431Notable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?12:17Harmsen's staff, salvage, and ship commandsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?14:28British and Dutch accounts of Gurkha's rescueNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?18:05Dutch officers and Allied coalition staffsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?39:17The destroyers the Netherlands ordered too lateNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)36:20The 1939 royal review brought reserve ships into serviceChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)42:20The Vanquisher collision and rescue of the woundedNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)48:55Norwegian evacuations and the last departure from NarvikChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)51:54A costly pursuit of U-47 in July 1940Notable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)54:37Donald Macintyre and Walker's ASW command styleNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:03:50HX 112 and the fall of U-99 and U-100Chapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:11:21V and W destroyers on the outer troop-convoy screenChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:19:58Protecting the convoy's most vulnerable shipsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:30:34Normandy troop convoys and Walker's final wartime dutiesChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:48:01Early homing torpedoes worked but were spoofableQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:52:14Aircraft overwhelmed destroyer-sized marginsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:18France Libre and carrier namingQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:52Why a Scharnhorst group loses to a balanced task forceQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:08Why Canada modified American ship designsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:54Staff initiative, the Battle of the Bulge, and Nelson under JervisQ&A
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?0:00Great-power logic behind declaring warChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?13:30Mussolini's contested dictatorshipNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?14:46Mussolini races Hitler to the microphoneNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?18:29Italy was already overstretchedChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?20:19Italian diplomacy and public doubtNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?23:25Ribbentrop's declaration and the American destroyer incidentsNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?35:49Japan and an alliance without reciprocityNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?48:58Congress authorizes war after the Axis declarationsChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?54:27Pacific-first aid and a delayed Atlantic warNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:04:21Removing Mussolini before an American warChapter
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:11:25Early peace costs lessons and changes the monarchyNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?1:19:39The proposed effect of an early Axis splitNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII0:46A great-power fleet beyond Free French reachChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII15:15Tigre's long war with few opportunitiesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII27:37Le Triomphant's cruiser label and worldwide repair cycleNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII40:31Operation Catapult and government war preparednessNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII54:07What a mass French fleet escape might have changedNotable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)2:25:14How officers responded to the Geddes AxeQ&A
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...18:22Large destroyers and Narvik firepowerNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...1:00:00Narvik and rushed destroyer developmentChapter
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:20Bomber Command's low-level canal miningQ&A
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?1:04:44The most useful conversion may be the hardest ship to requisitionNotable Point
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?1:13:39Rawalpindi's torpedo counterfactualNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....40:39Tribal-class guns meet the aircraft threatNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....42:20Destroyers become independent diplomatic and combat assetsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....49:46The Fletcher class as a general-purpose warshipChapter
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:32A possible reason for scuttling Type XXIII submarines firstQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:30Why heavy Tribal-class losses do not prove a poor designNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:57Choosing between British T-, U-, and V-class submarinesQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:28:22Which pre-1922 carrier design works best in the Second World War?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:58:33What happens to French light carriers after the 1940 surrender?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)2:02:19Does a larger carrier fleet make Churchill's pauses more defensible?Q&A
- Passion, Research & History0:00Passion as a guide and a source of biasChapter
- Passion, Research & History1:17Uncle Sid and the limits of wartime blameNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:19Why destroyer captains were not routinely given stimulantsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:04Why prolonged stimulant use does not remove the need for sleepQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:16Albania's resistance after its government and army collapsedQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:01The panel's preferred roles in a World War II navyQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...4:25Transport networks reveal plans but cannot replace logisticsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...5:37Peking Plan links naval escape to a Romanian bridgeheadChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...7:44Sealed orders take Polish destroyers to Britain before invasionNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...10:27Courbet and Paris escape amid changing French government ordersChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...22:48Surcouf escapes Brest but its British seizure causes deathsChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...33:19Orzeł reaches Tallinn damaged and faces internmentNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...40:03Orzeł becomes a Soviet pretext and later disappears on patrolNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...43:39A Belgian patrol boat carries gold to BritainNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...46:48Greek fleet withdrawal preserves an exile navyChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...53:53Draug prepares for invasion and captures a German supply shipNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...58:21Draug loses its prize but brings prisoners to the ShetlandsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:04:20Sleipner and a local militia capture German shipsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:15:10Niels Juel attempts a Danish dash to SwedenChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...10:03Perry's expedition and Japan's later strategic fearsNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...37:12Kamikaze-class lessons for night operationsNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)18:18Why D-Day bravery cannot be reduced to one roleNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)23:57Why marine chronometers needed practical shipboard handlingNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)30:00The Great Panjandrum and the danger of an all-in-one solutionNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:22:25Why Panjandrum ranked below the K-class submarinesQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:29:22The dual-purpose gun the Tribal class neededQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:40:47Why submarine aircraft carriers gave up their key advantageNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:06:41Destroyer radar, PPI displays, and night formation keepingNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:09:53How radar let the 10th Destroyer Flotilla fight line abreastNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:16:10How historically accurate is the film Dunkirk?Q&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:17:21Why destroyers carried more than one radarQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:27:42If naval treaties had not limited destroyer numbersQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:31:28What if Littorio had been caught at Cape Matapan?Q&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:32:39How 10,000-ton cruiser-carriers might have servedQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:20Town-class cruisers and their Swordfish allowanceQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:24Cruiser aircraft and the hunt for Admiral Graf SpeeQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:55Royal Navy dual-purpose guns and the Dido roleQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:51Filming the Battle of the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:03Eric Brown, Audacity, and head-on attacks on CondorsNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?0:00A delayed world war has more than one naval outcomeChapter
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?47:37Avoiding war also removes the postwar frozen decadeNotable Point
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor59:13The Zero improves capability but loses the A5M's power-to-weight edgeChapter
- Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor1:12:19The hidden cost of Japan's elite pilot systemNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:15Why Britain attacked at Mers-el-KebirQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:24Where Mogador and Volta would fit in Free French serviceQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:14How an Italian peace in 1941 could release Allied resourcesQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:47Why precision-bombing promises failed against weather and moving shipsQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)6:23Operation Regenbogen and the order to destroy the U-boatsChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)7:38The Holocaust and Nazi economic irrationalityNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)17:03U-boat numbers versus usable dive lifeNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)21:34The May 1945 scuttlings and U-boat surrenderChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)27:21U-boats that reached Portugal and ArgentinaNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)28:48Why Regenbogen made Allied disarmament easierNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)32:05Why surviving U-boat crews headed for NorwayNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)34:53Propaganda, surrender, and U-boat crewsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)39:15Why surrendered U-boats had little scrap valueQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)39:41Non-German submarines in the scuttling totalsQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)40:49Surrender ports map the surviving U-boat fleetNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)48:28Why Norway attracted surrendering U-boatsQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)54:38When Operation Deadlight planning beganQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)56:46How U-boat crews resisted scuttling ordersQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:06:14U-234's unfinished cargo mission to JapanNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:09:09Type VII boats reveal the operational backboneNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:15:23Why the Allies agreed to destroy most surrendered U-boatsChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:51:55Checking a South American U-boat wreck claimQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:09:33Reciprocity and postwar submarine-warfare prosecutionsNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:13British food security after industrialisationNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:18Britain's route back into Europe without America or JapanQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:47Why large Second World War ships were not easy targetsNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:00Why bombing totals do not precisely locate unexploded bombsQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:54Comparing the cost of the B-29 and Manhattan ProjectQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:22How Silverplate related to the B-29 programQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:30Why Japanese battleships stay north in an early-war scenarioQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:08:38Why Singapore lacked its planned radar specialistsQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?3:45How surviving Force Z could anchor the Eastern FleetQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?7:34Tom Phillips reshapes ABDA commandChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?22:30Industrial asymmetry makes a costly Japanese victory dangerousNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?34:27Air-support language and fleet air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?53:12Singapore as a submarine base against Japan's resource lifelineNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:17:33Saving Force Z eases the Royal Navy's 1941 capital-ship crisisNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:26:14Earlier Japanese attrition leaves the wider outcome uncertainNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)52:13North Cape as an example of mutual supportNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)4:07:22Why Mogami's small crew is not simply an LCS repeatQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:26Mountbatten and Slim worked in different command worldsQ&A
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?0:25The charter preceded America's formal entry into the warChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?3:25Advance diplomacy shaped the leaders' conferenceNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?4:56The Atlantic Conference brought together military and civilian leadersChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?6:11Roosevelt's wheelchair and the image of political leadershipNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?7:46Different rank systems complicated Allied commandNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?12:17Civilian advisers connected diplomacy with Lend-Lease supplyNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?13:23The White House staff and Cabinet Office developed at different timesNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?15:16World War II expanded the American executive branchNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?19:34HMS Prince of Wales was both venue and strategic signalChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?22:35Anticipating war with Japan required earlier readinessNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?24:10Freedom from want raised questions about labour and food supplyNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?28:26Britain sought American entry while Roosevelt faced resistanceChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?31:10Assigning responsibility for German wartime decisionsNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?34:06Ten-point symbolism became an eight-point charterChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?35:14Self-determination challenged the empires endorsing itNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?40:32Peacetime forces supplied the core for wartime expansionNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?44:47Expected postwar cuts made disarmament easy to acceptNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?45:48American conditions offered Britain no guarantee of interventionNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?46:47Side talks carried the conference's practical workChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?48:45The 1942 Moscow talks show informal summit diplomacyNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?56:57Axis leaders could read the charter as a Wilsonian warningNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?57:52The charter gave neutral America a public narrativeChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:02:50Imperial transition already predated the charterNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:05:27Imperial maps after 1945 included former Italian territoriesNotable Point
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:06:05Allied integration drew on months of earlier negotiationsChapter
- An introduction to the Atlantic Charter... creating a new world order in WWII?1:06:59Postwar planning strengthened independence argumentsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:22:01Wartime light carriers were conversions, not modular common hullsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...18:40The Allies' most visible demonstrations of wartime capacityQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:23What a completed Ibuki could still doQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:54Japan's need for a mass small-escort programNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:09How a desk reassignment would change Halsey's reputationQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:10Italian naval special forces after the armisticeQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:52Why Nelson-class tanker decoys would not fool GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:42The cost of defending the Channel IslandsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:53Would working German radar make D-Day harder?Q&A
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global31:03Destroyer orders needed to precede wartime demandNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global33:21Caldwell-class experiments produced the flush-deck templateChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:12:22Clemsons entered reserve before returning to global serviceChapter
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:16:03Would avoiding the pause shorten the war by a year?Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:42Why wartime leadership decapitation can backfireQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:17Wartime uses for a railroad car floatQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:15Britain did not invite Germany into NorwayQ&A
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?0:00Why Norway's 1940 defeat was a systemic failureChapter
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?57:31Britain planned around the possibility that Norway would fallChapter
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?1:20:55Using Geirr Haarr's work with Norwegian-language sourcesNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII22:42The N class adapted the design for wartime air attackChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII27:42Why prewar destroyer numbers shaped the whole warNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII42:37Why long wars modernize existing warshipsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII55:00HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes in an integrated Allied fleetChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII1:11:26Piorun's later campaigns and return as HMS NobleChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:28:26When did the US recognize the Type 93 torpedo threat?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:30:20Did navies combine ship names and numbered series?Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:48Why the Dutch were a dangerous small naval power in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:16Could Germany have put V-weapons aboard warships?Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:25Questioning the claim that rain detonated battleship shellsQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:42The risks of attacking a submarine from an airshipQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:19Canadian tailoring versus American scale in Allied truck logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:19Could an Orleanist restoration stabilize France before war?Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:58USS Midway and Tariq among surviving wartime shipsQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:37:12The most useful modern ship in World War II might be an oilerQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…30:00Interwar work prepared the landing craft used in World War IINotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…42:42Wartime expansion depended on trained peacetime cadresNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:22If all Schleswig joined Denmark after World War IQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:28Using a Nuremberg dramatization to teach historyQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:40:52Why the healthcare comparison turns to postwar BritainQ&A
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!0:40Two naval books connect the world warsNotable Point
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!39:28The First World War U-boat threat came closerNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:00:47Institutional planning before and after the Cold WarChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:08:01Flower-class corvettes favored fitness over perfectionNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?33:14The River class revived frigate as an ASW escort nameChapter
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:13:31Did German naval patronage survive the world wars?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:21:18Extra fast battleships and escorts in 1939 would compound across every theatreQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:29:56If both sides kept their Midway carriers, another battle would followQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:31:00Why US wartime shipbuilding did not prevent early escort shortagesNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:34:37A surrendered Bismarck would become a contested war prizeQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:55:17Warspite, Renown and the ships nominated for a fighting reputationQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:08:55Graf Zeppelin would provoke an Atlantic carrier concentrationQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:11:24Why Taranto's Swordfish observers sat beside leaking fuel tanksQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:14:40Would a completed Graf Zeppelin receive its planned air group?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:39:25Britain's economic weakness as the cumulative effect of repeated shocksNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:18:44The imagined British response to a Luftwaffe base in the CanariesQ&A
- 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
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:38:28Beaufighter, Hornet, and Whirlwind offer different twin-engine fighter tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:56:29King's Atlantic carrier allocation and the disputed food-crisis premiseQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:57:39Fleet-carrier anti-submarine patrols and the loss of CourageousQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:58:18Glorious and the gap between escort doctrine and the ships actually presentNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:59:16Ark Royal and the carrier-specific case for early counterfloodingNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:00:23Carrier damage-control lessons reach the captainNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:02:07Ranger, torpedo storage, and the carriers available in 1942Notable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)43:53Peacetime firing restrictions can mislead historiansNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)3:22:05Sloops, frigates and corvettes had different build standardsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics32:22Could Kido Butai chase the US Fleet toward the Philippines?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics33:45Why the Home Guard could be an effective delay forceChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics35:13Dale Clarke's study of Home Guard armamentNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics36:27The Royal Navy's planned attack on Sea Lion logisticsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics37:46Family survival changed the Home Guard's measure of successNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics41:07The roads and reused fortifications of the Surrey HillsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics42:55Traffic jams and ambush sites without escape routesNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics44:26Buried stores let the Home Guard fight for delayNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:50Robert Blake as a modern logistics admiralQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:10How much cargo palletization existed in the early-tunnel period?Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:30Why Axis technology sharing is not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:34Why bombing a production bottleneck may not collapse industryNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:03Axis pooled research meets industrial limitsQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:54Japan pushes deeper into British IndiaQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:20When destroyers deserved to winQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:39:48An airborne fortress above the approaches to BrestQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:48:42American strategic command of British convoysQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:04:50Unfinished battlecruisers sold to Denmark and the NetherlandsQ&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:54:28The cost of missing Jutland's lessonsNotable Point
- Why Historians sometimes seem to 'rewrite' History?0:26Putting Enigma back into the Allied war effortQ&A
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII0:00Atlantic trade shaped Canada's wartime navyChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII20:29Wartime expansion favored smaller escortsChapter
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...3:14:42If Vichy France resisted Operation AntonQ&A
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?46:06Sherman supportability and the tradeoff with numbersNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?54:59Convoys, guided bombs, and gaps between escortsNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?8:04Why Germany and Italy declared war on AmericaChapter
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:08:48June 1940 as a precedent for Mussolini's motivesNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit8:40British coastal defence aimed to hold invaders for the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit38:03World War I veterans gave the Home Guard a delaying missionNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit1:49:52Tank performance depended on initiative and supportNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:02:13World War I service shaped World War II alliances and prejudicesNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:04:03Churchill repeated a World War I shipbuilding pause in 1939Notable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates31:42How wartime naval air defense broke up mass attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:40British stockpiles in 1937: pom-poms, ASDIC, armor and radarQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:11Japan's fear of losing independence in the road to warNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:09Polish rearmament and the two-front problemNotable Point
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...14:05Genda's recollections and the limits of planning testimonyChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:06:28Tracing improvised weapons through uneven sourcesNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:31:26The Bombe and the search for daily Enigma settingsChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:32:43Delaying a code change to conceal an intelligence successNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:33:15Why Enigma decryption gives only part of the intelligence historyNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:08:25SOE workshops produced an arsenal of improvised weaponsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:10:06The Home Guard's weapons could exceed official allocationsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:11:45Did a Home Guard unit keep a working Mark V for only an afternoon?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:12:37The Humber and the influence attributed to naval armored carsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:14:09Local industrial skills and the reuse of memorial weaponsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:17:17Why worry about an obsolete Mark V tank?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:17:43Home Guard defence schemes could outrun government controlNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:18:38The Home Guard was a veteran force defending familiesChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:21:42Separating stay-behind units from the ordinary Home GuardNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:22:31Did Boer War veterans also serve in the Home Guard?Q&A
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:23:43British chemical stocks as wartime deterrenceNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:27:23Fire-watching at St. Paul's in a family recollectionNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:03Why Stalin did not secure an occupation zone in JapanQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:40Why grouping merchant ships can reduce encounters at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:57How Canadian Kangaroo APCs turned surplus hulls into protectionQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:54:19Lighter-aboard-ship logistics and the Mexeflote legacyQ&A
- Why Historians are useful for Military & Naval Training?0:00History as institutional memory for officersChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:38:10Swapping the major navies of the Second World WarQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:45:33Why Hitler risked war before German preparations were completeQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:51:21Why waiting did not solve the Axis industrial disadvantageNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:04:00Teaching imperial war history beyond the exam timetableQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:34:16How the Royal Navy assembled its wartime trawler forceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…41:32Why the Kriegsmarine dominates popular naval historyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…45:30German command, logistics, and the value of a good-enough solutionChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…49:19How the Allies might break Fortress Europe without the Soviet warQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:03:44Tracing a Swordfish air-to-air victory claimQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:05:11Did a Swordfish from the Bismarck attack survive?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…3:00:06Why four close torpedo hits doomed HMS EagleNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…4:59:19Britain's wartime skilled-labour allocation problemQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…5:04:28Why manpower reform was still unfinished when war beganQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…5:57:37Old roads as evidence of wartime transport and defensesNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…6:22:00Why Neville Chamberlain resigned but remained in governmentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…6:41:32A German armored-car example of observing and reportingNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…6:59:39How a TDR-1 available in 1942 could have supported carrier strikesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…7:02:11Could wartime television guide an assault drone?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…7:05:14Why remote weapons still competed for Allied resourcesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:32How American shipbuilding could recover from a lost 1941 fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon15:07Why destroying London would not erase Britain's war effortQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon21:28Why ten times more German ships would not secure sea controlQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon28:15Why wartime royal succession would preserve the CrownQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon43:39Industrial depth decides who can replace a lost fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:32:32Japan most needed a Black Swan-style escort leaderQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon5:38:29Britain requisitioned foreign warships in its yards in 1939Notable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:26:35Two ways to create a Second World War command shipQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:55:56The Altmark boarding crossed into Norwegian internal watersNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:23:58A neutral Italy's possible postwar fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War20:18An underwater torpedo shot worked out by handNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War26:54How to judge the Mark 27 homing torpedoQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War36:45An Axis-aligned French Navy in the MediterraneanQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War59:37How French shipyard workers sabotaged German constructionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:20:22Why Halifax and Stirling lived in Lancaster's shadowQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:32:44P-36 Hawk: useful in its generation, overtaken in serviceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:43:28What prewar 40 mm Bofors adoption gives JapanQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:21:06Eisenhower's coalition command responsibilitiesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:35:22Would a stronger Iran have avoided the Anglo-Soviet invasion?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War6:53:07Shaped-charge demonstrations and the incentives behind testsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust49:51Why Warspite survived repeated wartime damageQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:12:55Why 1945 Free French forces would need concentration to stop Germany in 1940Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:14:57Why foreknowledge would not make Yamamoto betray JapanQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:48:09If Göring succeeds Hitler just before the invasion of PolandQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:00:03Stalin's Polish timing after a hypothetical German delayQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:37:29The Willkie counterfactual and American preparation for warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:18:38Why ten nuclear weapons would buy Japan only a temporary peaceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:44:30Himmler's death in British custody and the assassination theoryQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:26:35An uncertain torpedo-hit tally for HMS BelfastQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:29:53Capable Italian crews were undermined above ship levelNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust9:10:39The US Navy's post-1943 logistics advantageQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust9:34:23A wartime Royal Navy suddenly equipped with Implacable-class carriersQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust15:44What the two Midway films get right differentlyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust16:55Why Home Guard cannon proposals did not require recovering bollardsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:13:38How earlier joint preparation could have reduced ABDA's disasterQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:44:36A personal judgment on the Second World War's military legaciesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:50:41The British Empire's wider industrial contributionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:56:08A limited future-warhead counterfactual for Japan in 1941Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:58:38Did the jet stream remove the B-29's altitude advantage?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:02:24Modern reconnaissance and weapons in the April 1945 Germany scenarioQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:04:21Late Japanese fighters and the B-29 interception questionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:06:40The Soviet 1962 fleet transported into 1942Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:10:50A7M Reppu interception and the problem of availabilityQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:12:59A Merlin-powered P-40 as a stopgap fighterQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:13:42An early Corsair in the 1940 MediterraneanQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:23:30Why a better defense of Manila Bay could prolong the Philippines campaignQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:29:42How a larger A7M Reppu force could complicate B-29 raidsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:33:39Why a DC-3 gunship needs a permissive air environmentQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:43:25Fear as an interpretation of state aggressionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:48:54A transport gunship under Second World War air defensesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust3:22:58Early volunteers and the wartime loss of junior leadersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust3:25:31Retired admirals and the source of anti-carrier quotationsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust6:56:52Japanese victory announcements and a retreating frontQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:54:41Small Second World War vessels in an Age of Sail counterfactualQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress57:12Conquest creates occupation and control costsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:07:02Roskill's evidentiary standard for official naval historyNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:18:38Italian and Japanese armoured vehicles on an Italian battlefieldQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida23:39Building an early wartime combat information centreQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida34:47What navies could use if the Oerlikon 20 mm disappearedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida47:35A neutral Italy and Spain reshape the Mediterranean warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:34:25If the Kriegsmarine regained Germany's 1917 fleet in 1938Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:20:52One starting book for the whole Second World WarQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:40:40Why Britain discarded Lend-Lease aircraft after the warQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:46:00Did American authorities know about aircraft disposal?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida4:46:12A comparison of British and German tactical flexibilityNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida4:48:31The Royal Navy's shift toward task groupsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida5:05:25Does World War II have an equivalent to the Hundred Days?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida5:21:48Malta convoys and the Mediterranean's separate campaignsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida5:42:39Why miraculous Saxon oil would not immediately solve Germany's fuel problemQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida5:47:06Choosing between the DUKW and TerrapinQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:55:03How nuclear capital ships in 1938 would alter Japanese strategyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:17:14If the full British Eastern Fleet concentrated at SingaporeQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:18:31Australia among the underrated navies of World War IIQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:55:14If the US Army controlled carrier aviation after World War IQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:57:40The Royal Navy's overlapping secondary and destroyer gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II35:48Why official histories begin before a war is overNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:50:21Why better French anti-aircraft guns would have limited strategic effectsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:31:31Why better guns leave France and Germany's larger problems intactNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:36:08Spreading better dual-purpose guns across Commonwealth escortsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II3:30:42The impossible logistics behind Operation Sea LionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II5:40:31How Indian independence in 1920 might shape naval powerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:21:38If Franco received a large fleet in 1940Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II8:54:50A family recollection of defending a merchant ship from a raiderNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I46:15Why USS Isabel missed the Japanese invasion fleetQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:07:48Why a dense Type 96 battery still left a light cruiser exposedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:40:04A better gun constrained by Flower-class availabilityQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:56:42A 1940 French fleet reappears in the presentQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I2:07:53How feedwater tanks became a wartime fuel reserveNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I2:15:11Habakkuk III as a smaller faster berg shipQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:15If the pre-attack Pearl Harbor fleet reappeared todayQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:46Britain, France, and Italy's 1940 coal problemQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:01Why China's pre-1947 naval investment had little wartime returnQ&A
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy20:46Gorshkov becomes an amphibious warfare specialistChapter
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy48:17When fleet operations become strategicNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception6:45Nearly fifty years of Royal Navy serviceNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception19:00Hiding Taranto inside a crowded operational pictureChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception24:01RAF reconnaissance makes Taranto possibleChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception26:37Timing Taranto around convoy cover and a concealed approachChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception28:58The Otranto raid turns Taranto into a two-direction blowChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception32:41Cunningham raises the Admiralty's operational tempoChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception39:21Why late-war U-boat losses did not end the threatNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:32Modern China sent back before World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:24Why economic interdependence does not guarantee peaceNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:18A major Perth naval base in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:35Why equal ship losses affect fleets differentlyNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:49Material calculations in Eastern Front attritionNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:55V-1 interception and versatile aircraft ferry pilotsNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:15A ferry pilot's wartime relationshipNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:24A Treasury objection to the Griffon SpitfireNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:36:31A 1939 Royal Navy built from G3s and N3sQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:57Why USS Reuben James did not trigger warQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:23Which world war threatened British merchant shipping more?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:18Choosing a nuclear submarine for a Second World War scenarioQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:34Could Japan have stockpiled enough oil from the 1920s?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:28How Japanese museums frame the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:36Did prize rules survive the world wars?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:36Why frozen meals strain Second World War logisticsQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?0:43How would a successful X-1 change treaties and World War II?Q&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?48:38World War II may begin with Germany already outmatched at seaNotable Point
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?21:24Commerce disruption attacks wartime financeNotable Point
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 36 on the 'lastish' night in Japan1:28Japanese naval history beyond World War IINotable Point
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 34 - hunting Mitsumasa Yonai Part 21:41Yonai’s place in modern Japan’s storyNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:19A powerful Swedish battleship need not provoke a German attackQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:17Japan's defense posture combines peace with preparednessQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:42How far does the fascist label explain wartime Japan?Notable Point
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 33 - hunting Mitsumasa Yonai Part 11:33Yonai as an overlooked Japanese leaderNotable Point
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?1:14:19Continuous construction transforms the fleets of 1939Chapter
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22Hiroshima's memorials and the consequences of decisionsNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:00Kobe's merchant-mariners memorialQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:28Hiroshima, tactical nuclear weapons, and deterrenceQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:18If the Yonai government survives into 1941Q&A
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 22 Hiroshima0:11Hiroshima as a thriving city beside its memorialsNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:49Why the Battles of the Atlantic fade from public memoryQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:55Why Ardent and Acasta's captains received no VCQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:11A Royal Navy of fictional Conqueror battleships in 1939Q&A
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships31:44Why battleships still made sense in the late 1930sChapter
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean34:22HMS Ashanti and the language of a charmed shipNotable Point
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:54Victory at Sea and the limits of television historyQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:37What rebuilding a historic warship could teachQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:05Canals behind Royal Navy industrial powerQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:06:08World of Warships Kearsarge hybrids appear in every major navyQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:04:37River access and denial in Myanmar’s warQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:05:20Extending the Maginot Line to the ChannelQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:21Why Operation Deadlight sank surrendered U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:11HMS Manchester and the cost of stale damage reportsQ&A
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...16:01The names of wars shape national memoryNotable Point
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...7:35TNT grades, storage limits, and wartime productionNotable Point
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...26:20War interrupts a different kind of naval programNotable Point
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...31:19War accelerates implementation more than inventionNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:44Why Japan's planned 28 light cruisers would have limited wartime valueQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:55Why Japanese naval wargaming needed to confront failureNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:40Where Britain's 9.2-inch coastal guns came fromQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:51Why Coast Guard combat service receives less attentionQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:42Choosing the Axis destroyer best suited to its theaterQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:00How Halsey's flagship complicated Task Force 34Notable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:19Assessing Victor Crutchley at sea and in coalition commandQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:17World War II escorts worth saving as museum shipsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:22The unrealized promise of Japan's Type 5 127 mm gunQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:12:45Royal Navy chart quality in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:11Ocean liners as cruisers, troopships, and hospital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:57Would a larger Taranto raid free Italy's cruisers to fight?Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:17British shallow-water torpedo technique at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:17How D-Day could have failed and what came nextQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:06A drawn Savo Island battle could shorten GuadalcanalQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:56Why 125 mm did not become a wartime destroyer standardQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:11Why the Swordfish sank so much Axis shippingQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:28The Soviet Union's strong local but weak oceanic amphibious capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:31The multinational manpower expected for invading JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:07Royal Navy carriers entered the war short of aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:19If Britain never paused carrier constructionQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:22Why mine clearance continued long after both world warsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:06Singapore could refit a carrier, but geography governed the choiceQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:38:52How the Royal Navy reduced Luftwaffe damage in dockyardsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:00:22Why port destruction could outlast the bombing campaignQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:01:26Dry-service rules and unofficial wartime alcoholNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:04:02Why existential threats create unlikely coalitionsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:20:08Nubian, Eskimo, Seydlitz, and other lucky shipsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:26:46When shore power could operate a warship's gunsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:54:20Navigation when wartime lights go darkQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:04:33Railway guns remained widespread in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:06:30Estimating RNLI wartime aircrew rescuesQ&A
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:48:44The decisive advantage was the whole gun systemNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:00Why Martlet deliveries did not weaken the US NavyQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:17Equipping coastal boats for wartime supply workQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:37Why some 4.5-inch shells carried spiral groovesQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:16Comparing Tacoma frigates and Evarts-Buckley destroyer escortsQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:51Klaus Schmider on Hitler's war against AmericaQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:16Choosing Unsinkable Sam as a favourite military animalQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:57German tank variants and the cost of avoiding standardisationNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:53How the Bureau of Ordnance could have sabotaged the US war effortQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:52:22Ian Fleming and the recovery of German naval researchNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:54:41Britain after a failed Dunkirk evacuationQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:57:16Why fast ocean liners mattered in wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:02:04How the Royal Canadian Navy became a top-three fleetQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:04:13How Lend-Lease worked around treaty constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:05:12Why soldiers at Dunkirk thought the RAF was absentQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:06:52Bathurst-class corvettes and Australian wartime shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:07:36Which shipyards mattered most in the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:12:01Which ports endured the heaviest wartime attacks?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:00A British-American submarine for the South China SeaQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:58Five imagined boarding prizes of the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:07A Short Sunderland drives off Force Z's attackersQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:46A Dutch G3 battlecruiser enters service in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:03An earlier Royal Navy adoption of the OerlikonQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:16A non-communist Russia reshapes the interwar orderQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:13Would a non-communist Russia necessarily be stronger?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:40Near-perfect infantry accuracy before Operation DynamoQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:00Naval weapons that almost reached the seaQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:54:56Could proximity fuzes save Force Z?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:54:52Perfect British naval gunnery from 1939Q&A
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?0:36Why modern gun totals became misleadingNotable Point
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?1:20Why main-battery calibre matters in a gunnery duelNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:22A Polish advance to Warsaw before StalinQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:12If Tirpitz left Norway for active operationsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:14Why Churchill lost the 1945 general electionNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:07Rommel secretly aids the Allies in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:34:21A tripled Dutch naval budget before 1940Q&A
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!20:43The Argentia conference before American entry into the warChapter
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:44:28War and economic shocks compressed Britain's dominion timetableNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!1:57:00The war left the United States economically dominantNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:19:49Why Japan adopted kamikaze attacksQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:22:01Why Japan's war-crimes trials seem less visibleQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:26:08Acoustic homing for the Long LanceQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:53A cautious answer on FuMB 6 and FuMB 7Q&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:31When surface torpedoes stopped being decisiveQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:51How modern commerce raiding might workQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:41Hs 293 as the most effective wartime guided weaponQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:41The limited answer on Royal Navy close-quarters trainingQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:01RNLI crews as a wartime rescue reserveQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:42Turning Polish oil wealth into durable defenseQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:33World of Warships Devastation as Britain's 1939 battlefleetQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:59:12If France holds out until 1941Q&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...25:38Why Japan changed sailor ranks during wartimeNotable Point
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:06:58Why interwar naval treaties became a pressure cookerQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:21:11Ian Fleming's real naval-intelligence workQ&A
- Naval Ranks: The Video that will make all Lieutenants Hate me... permanently...2:28:03How Force K made Malta an Axis priorityNotable Point
- Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s14:04Why war cut promising drone experiments shortNotable Point
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys2:16Why Poland's Wilk-class minelayers suited the BalticChapter
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys9:34Interned Polish submarines complicate German planningNotable Point
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys10:34Orzel's escape from Tallinn and passage to BritainChapter
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys17:56Greek submarines carry the fight after Greece fallsChapter
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys30:20H6, O 8, and UD-1: one submarine in three naviesChapter
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:26Why unified partisan command could shorten the war or collapse into infightingQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:18Modern Canada in 1935 confronts the limits of avoiding warQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:42The sailing vessels still working in World War IIQ&A
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy45:15Wartime amphibious and riverine command built Gorshkov's reputationChapter
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy49:09The Azov breakout led Gorshkov into army commandNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy53:51Army commanders requested Gorshkov for the Danube offensiveNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48A visual reference guide to Mussolini's NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:43Italian tanker captures in the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:28The Italian fleet sorties against SalernoQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:32Choosing one modern aircraft for Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:26Operation Pedestal fails to reach MaltaQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:35Malta's aviation fuel crisis and alternative food suppliesNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:09Swapping Royal Navy and US Navy high commandsQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:52How the Royal Navy built its wartime fuel reserveNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:53How much naval fuel remained after World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:51French warships defect to Britain in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:48Japan's reserve pilots and the A7M programmeQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:01Mark 14 torpedo failures versus the Bomber MafiaQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:46The US Navy adopts the pom-pomQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:46:53Vichy France resists postwar reunificationQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:03:42Lafayette becomes a long-range strike carrierQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:44:50Hawkeye engines as a shortcut to wartime turbopropsNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:00:55Keeping a Nimitz air wing flying in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:08:52Rescue refuges for future space operationsQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:23:21Could Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:31:32Convoy escorts and specialist U-boat huntersNotable Point
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:52:01A mass German surface-fleet breakout in 1941Q&A
- Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)2:38Coastal threat zones did not begin with UkraineChapter
- Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)57:19Uncrewed attack boats revive an older base-defense problemChapter
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...1:05:22Shipyard closures traded mobilization capacity for short-term economyNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:32Why Britain admitted Japanese fact-finding missionsQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:01Why Britain did not have to invade Singapore in 1945Q&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:26Japanese options if the Pacific Fleet stayed on the US West CoastQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:40Britain's planned role in the invasion of JapanQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:57Reading a disputed wartime account as a contemporary viewpointQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:39:41Defeating the RAF would not solve Operation Sea LionQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:11:13How a Japanese Zero pilot could defect to a US carrierQ&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:22:11Would Yamamoto have faced a postwar trial?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:08:02What if Japan joined the Allies and the Soviet Union joined the Axis?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:10:30Britain alone and the British Empire give different industrial comparisonsNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:18Could neutral minor navies have changed World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:32Warships that survived extreme damageQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:40Why Italy could not sustain Ethiopia in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:07San Demetrio and ships reboarded after abandonmentQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:44Operation PLUTO and redundant D-Day logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:47Sea Cat and naval guns against World War II aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:06Which Leander systems could wartime Britain reproduce?Notable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:29If each British carrier generation arrived one class largerQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:21If Italy joined Britain against GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:32What peace might follow an early German defeat?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:48:14Liberty ships and their Victory ship successorsQ&A
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?2:21:54Why failed short wars can become long warsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:23Could American reinforcements have saved Singapore?Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:44Why the Philippines could not repeat DunkirkQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:11If the Arnhem bridges were heldQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:43Could Dunkirk have become a reinforcement bridgehead?Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:27A task group of famously survivable warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:18How carrier anti-submarine patrol aircraft workedQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:49When the French fleet could have joined Britain in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:58A Canadian Tribal-class building program from 1935Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:44Combat at the edge of the AntarcticQ&A
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?8:13Why the German navy remained a lower priorityNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:51The French fleet joins the Royal Navy in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:42Crete remains an Allied bomber and logistics baseQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:35World of Warships Ohio battleships transform the Pacific WarQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:46Venezia-class cruisers strain Italy's fuel and British planningQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:25A Bering land bridge still needs a usable supply routeQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:42An Aleutian railway route changes the land-bridge calculationNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:06Seventeen N3 battleships anchor Britain's 1939 battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:17British atomic strikes could halt the 1940 campaignQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:49Atomic weapons compress a mass bombing raid into one aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:38Modernised Queen Elizabeths and Revenges give Britain ten fast battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:44Without the world wars, mass production loses a powerful stimulusQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:46B-29 fleets attack Axis oil in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:21Early B-29 attacks threaten the Axis fuel networkNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:26World of Warships cruisers replace Britain's heavy cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:06:45Atomic attacks and Soviet entry break Japan's remaining optionsNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:30:09Germany and the Soviet Union attack Japan in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:39:33Operational South American battleships increase wartime pressureQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:44:55Vietnam-era American forces overwhelm the Axis in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:03:28Friendly fire was under-recorded in both world warsQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?32:42The U.S. Navy reaches the Bofors after the 1.1-inch gunNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:34:26Could a shorter war prevent the USSR or World War II?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:53:38Would Dominion capital ships survive into World War II?Q&A
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:56:00Would this produce a longer Pax Britannica?Q&A
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII5:32How governments turn commanders into scapegoatsNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII33:39Nelles and the RCN's unprecedented wartime expansionChapter
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:33Cross-Channel ferries became amphibious-warfare shipsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:52Periscope cameras were rare rather than standard in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:01:00The French fleet lacked time and fuel to escape ToulonQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:11Why some damaged warships were scuttled instead of towedQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:40How the Royal Navy could use the French fleet in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:03An early bomb still needs an aircraft and delivery programQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:39Modern coastal batteries did not depend on medieval castlesQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:15Why Britain used manned electronic-warfare decoysQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:28The Royal Navy stored aviation fuel where the RAF did not expect itNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:07Royal Navy submarines reached the Baltic's edgesQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:49HMS Venturer made the only recorded submerged-on-submerged killQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:08:37Insufficient testing caused early-war torpedo failuresQ&A
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!1:16:36King combined fleet command with the CNO postNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:17Why 1941 T-55s would win battles but strain US logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:23What an all-Sumner US destroyer fleet changes in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:01Choosing a Second World War navy when survival is guaranteedQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:30Why the Imperial Japanese Navy is the least attractive wartime postingQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII8:44How smaller navies chose submarines before World War IIChapter
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII51:53Why the Royal Navy built U-class submarines before wartime demand peakedNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:27:17Norway's A class and the illusion of submarine readinessChapter
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:34:19Norway's B class: licensed production without a modern forceNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:53:08South American submarines in World War IIQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:26:07Submarine operators in the World War II Black SeaQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:27:52Why Britain requisitioned foreign warships under constructionQ&A
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?6:11Contested sea routes strain Sweden's great-power positionNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...29:47The Altmark incident joined audacity to a limited political objectiveChapter
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:22Mapping Second World War ships onto the sailing-navy rating systemQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:47How a submarine-first German fleet would change British strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:46Why Second World War warships carried so many Carley floatsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:33What a Pacific-first American strategy would changeQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:08How far Japan's wartime atomic research progressedQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:23British interest in armed drones during the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:27What Germany knew about D-DayQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:30Anti-submarine weapons used on landQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:34World War II combatants with modern drone controlsQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:55Why advanced German weapons could lose to production and logisticsNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:47:20How common were World War II bomb duds?Q&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?1:48:41Italy entered the war with a mixed-generation bomber forceNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:55:29Why wartime fleets kept mixed fire-control systemsNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:58:03Why World War II fire-control comparisons are difficultQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:40Matching an ASW drone to a 1,000 kg torpedo packageNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:23How Allied submarine bases differed from German U-boat pensQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:19Who controlled land-based anti-aircraft guns in World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:34Why World War II submarines often sailed without doctorsNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:14Was Abraham Crijnssen the only warship disguised as an island?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:26How naval mines changed between the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:57What if every Axis torpedo became an early Mark 14?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:13If Britain's 1939 battle fleet became Vanguard classQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:14Would a Vanguard version of Royal Oak survive Scapa Flow?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:42Which World War II weapons could still serve today?Q&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:54Finding the official record of USS Turner's lossQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:51When World War II submarines needed dry dockingQ&A
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List0:34Why destroyer command rewarded calculated aggressionChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic27:33The Jellicoe family and George's wartime careerNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:19:44Jellicoe's legacy of quiet professional leadershipChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:25:12Henderson carries analytical command into the next fleetChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:27:08Which First World War leaders shaped the next navies?Notable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:13How a submarine-only Germany could strengthen a British attack on TarantoNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:37An all-submarine Germany shifts Royal Navy power eastQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:14British submarine patrols and a Japanese surprise attackNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:22Could Germany have fielded true submarines earlier?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:53The continuing danger from lost world-war minesQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:37Britain's interwar fuel-oil stockpilingQ&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership0:37Why peace through naval weakness could invite warChapter
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership55:30A. V. Alexander faces the fleet his treaty curtailedNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?2:05:16Why Italian wartime forces gained a poor reputationNotable Point
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:15Could more French warships have joined the Free French?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:27Why Operation Chariot stands out among wartime commando raidsQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:01How rapid Norwegian mobilization could have disrupted Operation WeseruebungQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:58Which submarine design caused the most wartime damage?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:25Which wartime submarine programs misused scarce resources?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:33How fully crewed Norwegian defences could have changed Operation WeseruebungQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:43What B-52s would change in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:32Where to start reading about the Belgian NavyQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:13How effective early homing torpedoes were in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:05:32Why German wonder weapons could not reverse the warQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:39What limited wartime homing-torpedo impactQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:16Would thermobaric weapons change the Second World War?Q&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?1:01:10Japan exploited Allied resource commitments as well as speedNotable Point
- Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...15:24The Ro.37 reconnaissance workhorseChapter
- Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...23:28Why the Ro.43 remained Italy's shipboard aviation mainstayNotable Point
- Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...32:36Italian readiness, logistics, and the timing of warNotable Point
- Industrie Meccaniche e Aeronautiche MeridionalI; Where Italy turned when they wanted special...33:57How brinkmanship produced a war no one was ready to fightNotable Point
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!2:20:14Where to find Rowley-like commanders in the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:33Keeping HMS Warspite alive from 1914 to 1946Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:58What if every US cruiser became a Des Moines in 1941?Q&A
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?54:55Reginald Henderson represents institutional admiralshipNotable Point
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...9:51How castles served as Second World War coastal defencesQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...13:01Why the Battles of the Atlantic are underrepresentedQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:30Where cross-Channel and railway guns came fromQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:51Torpedo attacks on docks, canals, and a damQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:40:36How RNLI networks helped organize the Dunkirk evacuationQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:40What losing Queen Mary would mean for the Allied war effortQ&A
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...37:46Anglo-American standardisation reversed British landing-craft namesNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?22:24Martello towers spread a compact defensive model across the British EmpireNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?3:13:30A war without American combat entry depends on Japan staying outQ&A
- General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!48:00Actors, observation, and wartime intelligence trainingNotable Point
- General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!1:15:00Modern destroyer development and the danger of design by committeeNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued34:00Sea Meteor as an emergency wartime carrier fighterQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:38Which wartime ship classes should have been replaced?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:16Why the Weapon class was not simply a late-war redundancyNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:58:10Why V-2 rockets were effectively impossible to interceptQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:16Why early Tallboys imply an entirely different air warQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:48Why KGV guns and Illustrious armour were rational prewar compromisesNotable Point
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?25:41Using the Hull Note to trigger a fleet sortieChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?0:00Why Italy needed more than a vast submarine fleetChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?42:21Red Sea boats faced poison and immediate retaliationChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer2:05:32Destroyer growth and a command-culture legacyChapter
- Admiral James Somerville: Communicating a Command Apprenticeship1:18:38Recognizing communications officers behind high commandNotable Point
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?34:13Long strategic horizons need realistic technology testsNotable Point
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?1:40:48Standardization can matter more than superior machineryNotable Point
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?2:25:28Industrial capacity matters when comparing defence budgetsChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:50:29If the Pearl Harbor battleships could not be repairedQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:44:42Who gets the blame for the Mark 14 torpedo?Q&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?4:57Why carriers alone did not necessarily end the battleshipNotable Point
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?4:22Defeat perception and the problem of ending World War INotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!49:22How early command can disrupt promotion plansNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!3:28:01Ground advances put targets beyond V-2 rangeNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!3:33:14Could aircraft catch V-2 rockets before launch?Q&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...24:17War films, remakes, and historical memoryQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...28:56Omar Bradley's influence on PattonNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:07:53What military operation names were meant to doQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:20:12Coastal blackouts as anti-submarine defenseQ&A
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?1:12:02Prewar admiral attrition outpaced the First World WarNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:15How proximity fuzes changed anti-aircraft fireNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:12Why gallon differences did not derail Allied naval fuelingQ&A
- The Battle of Cartagena de Indias(1741) - How not to do combined operations... Naval History Live2:33:01Amphibious engineering becomes an integrated capabilityNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...44:25Could a reinforced Royal Navy contest Japan in the Far East?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...51:42How the United States might enter the war without Pearl HarborQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...56:56Roosevelt's anti-imperial vision and the unexpected CommonwealthNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!9:50What an early Royal Navy rearmament could have changedQ&A
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!49:24How the Allied defense of Crete might have workedQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:06Could the Royal Navy join the race to Berlin?Q&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:27Why choose Scharnhorst as Germany's best wartime naval design?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:04Cruiser ramming successes and their costsQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:13Naval evacuations beyond DunkirkQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:18The Surcouf and the problem with cruiser submarinesQ&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?2:03Global trade routes met an infrastructure bottleneckChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?5:55War plans had to rest on current capabilityNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?56:19A British loss table survived through American recordsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth53:19Carrier aviation was another wartime transitionNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command51:03Augustus Agar models aggressive professional leadershipChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command53:59Operation Fish tests Agar's care for HMS Emerald's crewNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command56:09Dorsetshire's loss redirects Agar to GreenwichNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command57:27Unicorn work and commodore status keep Agar in wartime serviceNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command58:58Eric Brind demonstrates controlled naval diplomacy at TsingtaoChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:03:00Credible naval signaling depends on ships remaining in theaterNotable Point
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:06:00HMS Liverpool repeats Britain's East Asian signaling patternNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:29What Tribal-class destroyers attacked in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:28The World War II design that could transform World War IQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:53Why Bay-class frigates could scale World War I convoy defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:07What remains of the Dunkirk evacuation landscapeQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:19The U.S. 1.1-inch gun versus Japan's 25 mm anti-aircraft gunQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:47:03First-line British and Indian forces in East AfricaQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:23If HMS Hood survived the Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:52If World War II magnetic torpedo exploders had workedQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:39Would reliable Mark 14 torpedoes change the Philippines campaign?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:42How three Admiral-class carriers could reshape World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:14The Laconia Order and the Nuremberg submarine caseQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:25Could World War II technology build a guided-missile ship?Q&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:12Rommel's plans and the supplies that actually arrivedNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:09Montgomery's difficult manner, delegation, and later reputationNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:53Would the Royal Navy still hunt Bismarck if Hood survived?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:17Postwar defence cuts and the Korean WarNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:57How many destroyers lost their bows in World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:06Was Schlesien attacked with Tallboy bombs?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:56Grand Slam's size and Tallboy's claimed accuracyQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:01Japanese tanks need to be judged against their intended warNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:05Why HMS Glowworm met Admiral Hipper aloneQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:21Detached escorts and flight operations exposed Courageous to submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:45Why carrier damage control required immediate counterfloodingNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:56British tanks and narrow accounts of World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:21Which late-war ship class would matter most at the start of World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:03Mines and torpedoes solve different naval problemsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:48A 75 mm AA mount would replace some Bofors positionsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:28The 5-inch gun was the practical destroyer ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:55Why Japanese damage control lagged in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:33Floating dry docks as mobile strategic infrastructureQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II20:48Comparing Second World War damage controlQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II31:44What Second World War use would the US make of PBRs?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II39:39A surprise German fleet on the eve of warQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:15:56Why dive bombers cannot reliably choose a battleship's weak endQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:31:30What Halo's Spartan-IIs would change in the 1939 Polish campaignQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...54:30Britain's race for German naval bases in 1945Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:34:20Choosing a fictional warship to send to 1939Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:39:21Why ski ramps would hinder Second World War carriersQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:40:35If Churchill became prime minister in 1936Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...41:21The Hunt-class stability problem in contextQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:04:16Alexandria would not remove Italy's Mediterranean constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:12:18Why a convoy commodore does not command the escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:21:08Why future warships cannot solve Germany's industrial problemQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:26:39How mobilisation communications could change the Narvik landingNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:51:05Mines in World War I, torpedoes in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:49:45DD tanks and the problem of getting armour ashoreQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!45:45Sergey Gorshkov learned war on the DanubeNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!46:31Soviet supply routes from the Black Sea up the DanubeChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!47:57Shore artillery in Soviet river operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise11:38Lion's heavier 16-inch shell and intended battle rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise17:29HMS Urge and her attack on Italian battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise41:00The largest Allied and Axis logistical failuresQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise43:50What if Mikawa attacked the Savo Island transports?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise56:58Could Hiryū have escaped Midway?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:00:40What if Germany mastered modular shipbuilding by 1939?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:40:40Choosing the best destroyer of World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:00:52Britain's largest amphibious assaultQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:15:44Destroyer captains who attacked much heavier shipsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:17:40If Scharnhorst survived the Battle of North CapeQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:19:38British teams collecting German military equipment in 1945Notable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:30:48Which fast battleship gave its nation the most capability?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:24:43If Town-class cruisers carried sixteen 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:27:27Why invading Malta would be worse than CreteQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:34:40Veterans, family ties and determination in local defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:40:28USS Ranger's value in Operation TorchQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:01:18The most dangerous waters for merchant seamenQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)48:34The Soviet Danube Flotilla in the 1941 retreatChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)57:00How the Danube sustained the Soviet advanceChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:01:38The river assault that preserved Vienna's Imperial BridgeChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:06:27Speed, smoke, and disputed surprise at Vienna's bridgeNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:13:19Yugoslavia's inherited monitors and the loss of DravaChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:20:25Why retreating toward Vienna strengthened German logisticsNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube54:54Austria-Hungary formalizes its Danube flotilla after 1866Chapter
- Flotillas of the Danube59:40Why Allied target analysis had to recognize Europe's canalsNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:13:29President Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's lone new river monitorNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:22:30Hungary's Danube mission centers on mine clearanceChapter
- Flotillas of the Danube1:53:20Romania's river force from the interwar period to 2025Chapter
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership52:17Why a Kiev-class ship would be a fleet carrier in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:20:20Why no single ship owns the Second World War damage recordQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:24:38Why the TBM-4 Avenger was an incremental refinementQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:44:27Why Fairey Spearfish and Grumman Avenger are different generationsQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:01:31Late-war Hellcat and Helldiver upgrades versus the next generationQ&A
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 61:45:23Sailing ships created modern wartime boarding problemsNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 62:13:34Destroyers as a school for wartime commandNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…19:49Why convoys disrupt just-in-time shippingChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…26:40Convoys, political reassurance, and ChurchillChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…31:50How an escorted convoy can become a submarine trapChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…40:37The continuing demand for specialized escortsChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…48:02Could modern ports support wartime convoys?Notable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?24:41Italian carriers reshape the Mediterranean naval warQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:05:39Measuring kamikaze attacks by resources and damageQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:32:49Warship efficiency depends on what the ship achieved for its costQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:35:55Germany's fragmented logistics problem in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:50:22Four larger Scharnhorsts would force a British capital-ship emergencyQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?4:08:22The Royal Navy found wartime work for any serviceable old destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?4:14:41The best World War II submarine depends on theater and missionQ&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:34:30The arms race reshapes late-1930s fleetsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:02:10How was Britain meant to defend Singapore?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:09:32Canadian funding limited prewar armamentNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:09:48American resources and Britain's convoy problemNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:17:26Canals and river traffic are strategic infrastructureNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 345:44Britain's wartime carrier-fighter procurement lessonNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 353:19Island chains need a fleet behind their fortificationsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 31:00:18HMS Argus and the drone-carrier precedentNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202443:47Battleship ramming and submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202453:24Why secure codes do not defeat signals traffic analysisNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202458:05Italy's red-and-white ship identification stripesQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:05:18Steam submarines, topweight, and other candidates for the worst wartime design mistakesQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:36:20Why American merchant-ship investment mattered before entry into the warQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:06:19What widespread submarine snorkels would change in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:36:58Why Britain and America divided naval theaters in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20245:00:06Why flying boats could not simply land and refuel beside Atlantic convoysQ&A
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?7:02Why German submarine minelaying receded after World War INotable Point
- Santa's Sleigh... A Quick History - Key Aircraft Series 3, Aircraft 312:37Radar and the changing risk to Santa's flightChapter
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit34:23Why Swedish iron ore went to GermanyQ&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit47:41Was HMS Enterprise considered for HMS Victorious's American voyage?Q&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit1:18:48Quisling's failed demand to a police chiefNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 439:03When naval initiative crosses into misconductNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 451:23Rescue at sea after the Laconia OrderNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 452:07Convoy concentration, dispersion, and forgotten global riskNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 457:08How Tribal-class crews became the elite of the eliteNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:13:27What published naval dispatches reveal about communicationNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 41:15:15Battle summaries as the Royal Navy's first draft of historyNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?13:02Why Japan did not prioritize more convoy escortsQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:35:15Why Lend-Lease needed Britain to prove it could surviveQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:52:34When an invasion of Japan replaces the atomic bombsQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:19:49Why a restored High Seas Fleet would not solve German naval weaknessQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:24:47If the United States enters the European war in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:38:43Why wartime Australia might build a carrier before a cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:51:49The Soviet Union still enters a shorter European warQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:25:37The Nazi-Soviet pact was a race to strike firstNotable Point
- The Monroe Doctrine: The Myth, The Legend, The Rhetoric, The Reality!1:12:56The Free French seizure of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon tested wartime doctrineNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 91:27:57Where might a modernized Tiger have served in World War II?Notable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview9:47Why early submarine and aircraft judgments need period contextNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:04:49Why Britain did not build escort carriers alongside early wartime escortsQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...20:02Why flying boats solved an infrastructure problemQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:08:00Arms for Russia and the Arctic naval warChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:08:52British aid to Russia before officials expected Soviet survivalNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:12:06German supply limits complicate a Soviet-collapse counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:15:44The tradeoff in an earlier US coastal blackoutQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:26:36Where Repulse goes after surviving Force ZQ&A
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:01:01Nova Scotia, U-177, and the human cost of the Laconia OrderChapter
- The Monroe Doctrine, a living history of Rhetoric vs Reality1:55:03Free French action exposed wartime ambiguitiesNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...16:23Radar innovation before and during the Second World WarQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:25:50Was Japan a technological peer of the United States in 1941?Q&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...33:42If the Royal Navy controlled naval aviation from 1929Q&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...40:08An early de Havilland Hornet changes carrier aviationQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:06:42Bat versus Fritz X as anti-ship guided weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:12:48Why Germany did not recognize the Enigma compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:33:09A later US entry preserves Montanas and most of the prewar programQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:43:17How much survives of Axis plans beyond World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:57:12The Flower corvette and Bofors gun as naval workhorsesQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:38:37Resignation rather than confidence drove Japan toward warQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:41:33A Bismarck mutiny would create a Free German naval forceQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:02:32German conventional ICBMs would harden American resolveQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:32:13Liberty ships adapted British precedent to American mass productionQ&A
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...1:26:50Churchill and Hitler complicate the Pacific crisisChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo8:49A ten-day snapshot of submarine lethalityChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo1:06:26USS Sealion and the Balao-class patrol submarineChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo1:30:54Sealion's recorded attack and memorialized torpedoesNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:12:31Dunedin's fatal zigzag into U-124's torpedoesChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:13:55Black Swan and Stonecrop destroy U-124Notable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:27:27Did U-boats mine the Gulf of St. Lawrence?Q&A
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:31:11Did the Allies conduct offensive mining in the Mediterranean?Q&A
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:39:34Barham's secret loss and the Helen Duncan caseNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:46:07U-177's long-range reach and destruction from the airNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:46:54Why published speed figures conceal wartime machinery strainNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting9:44The lost interwar surveillance opportunity in the ChannelNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:05:57What role would the Montana class have filled?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:19:30Were Dutch light cruisers and destroyers poor ships?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:20:49Could a small free Korean navy survive the Pacific War?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:23:16Would a delayed war have given Hood her reconstruction?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:24:09Why a delayed Second World War still hurts Plan ZNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:27:36Why US submarines entered the Sea of Japan lateQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:38:24If the scuttled German fleet reappeared in 1939Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:03:02The electricians behind effective naval gunneryQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:53Why Royal Navy operational research outpaced the KriegsmarineQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/420:33R. V. Jones and the problem of memoir creditQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/422:31Why the documents needed to check wartime memoirs remain unavailableQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/437:55St Nazaire followed a long Royal Navy port-attack traditionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:47:29Nine 9.2-inch guns on a small Second World War warshipQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:19:01The overlooked Royal Navy V-class submarinesQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:21:51U-class submarine results relative to their small sizeNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:40:00British wartime timber without the naval forestsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/43:39:17Why the Hercules-powered Avro York did not become standardQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/43:57:19Did large Avro York orders anticipate postwar service?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:41:39How the Royal Navy fixed its early-war torpedo failuresQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:44:11Portuguese noninterference at the Mormugao raidQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:55:09Why neutral Italy removes the historical Afrika KorpsQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:24:31The Royal Navy's comparative AA armament in 1939Notable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:41:53When fully remote anti-aircraft control became plausibleQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:51:24Why the XF5U does not solve Midway or scale into a bomberQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:23:24Undine: fighting after the loss of underwater detectionChapter
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:25:38What distinguishes a submerged-versus-submerged kill?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:26:12Ursula: North Sea and Mediterranean patrols, then Soviet serviceChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:00:46Why an Axis seizure of Gibraltar would not sever BritainQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:38:01Modern Russian weapons outweigh the Home Fleet only if they workQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:25:40An Axis-aligned Brazil would force an Allied Atlantic campaignQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:56:01Modernized Iron Dukes would become intimidating convoy escortsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:47:53The Kriegsmarine explored guided weapons too lateQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1081:58:52Hitler and Churchill could widen the crisisChapter
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:01:04A successor Japanese government would probably not declare war on GermanyQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:33:24If Hitler declares war after Japan turns backQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 739:30Mazut and synthetic fuel leave different environmental hazardsQ&A
- Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS46:39Squadron numbers, heritage, and 881's battle honoursNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast6:34Could Britain have completed Tube Alloys alone?Q&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast44:39Why strategic bombers are poor close-support toolsQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast2:08:41Suspected spies and secret wartime emissariesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax28:13What IJA-IJN cooperation could and could not changeQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:13:43Why Rapid Dragon cannot simply be sent into a world warQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:29:10A Type 45 destroyer as a Second World War fleet assetQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:41:46Why a 5.1-inch gun would barely change wartime destroyer conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:48:04Why a hypothetical British atomic strike in 1941 points toward BerlinQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:32:37A surviving Royal Oak becomes a valuable convoy battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:35:36A Japan outside the Pacific War redirects Allied and Soviet strategyQ&A
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?1:43:13How a peaceful Japan changes the wider warChapter
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:12:02What happened to the Royal Navy's fast fleet oilersQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:39:19Containerization needed an earlier start to change Lend-LeaseQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:42:28Tax breaks did not create a faster British merchant fleetQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:48:37Five years of concentrated English Channel mine clearanceQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:33:35A Second World War sloop turns Trafalgar into a standoff actionQ&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:57:52A victory of annihilation could consume Britain's future admiralsNotable Point
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1081:40:10Which navy was most effective per dollar in the Second World War?Q&A
- What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 1083:25:04How far the Sovetsky Soyuz battleships had progressedNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...37:05Why Japanese aviation technology should not be dismissedQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:45:02Treaty-power Spain changes both world-war coalition calculationsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:49:22Onshore North Sea oil could accelerate oil-fired battle fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:54:42The Allies sought Japanese technology after 1945, but found less intact materialQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:06:54When a Belfast-based anti-aircraft cruiser becomes worthwhileQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:14:20A rebuilt Francesco Caracciolo could become a 30-knot fleet problemQ&A
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s56:12Joffre's delay and lost wartime potentialNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song16:16What an earlier USS Midway could have added in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song47:27Nelson's tactical instinct in a modern night battleQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:23:43What a Royal Navy carrier P-40 would need beyond folding wingsQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:33:53Ordering Sea Hurricanes and Martlets before the warQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song4:12:50Additional Yorktown-class carriers and Pacific operational flexibilityQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:05:25Heligoland in a Second World War scenarioChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:09:11Would a second ring of sea forts surround Heligoland?Q&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:10:57Air defence, supply, and Germany's naval choicesChapter
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.18:46Would bad weather have spared Nagasaki?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:56:45Hedgehog accuracy versus depth-charge totalsQ&A
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?42:11Panama forces an earlier two-ocean US NavyChapter
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?52:02Panama streamlines Pacific war logisticsNotable Point
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:44:12A counterfactual: Soviet carriers before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....14:47Leadership in a coalition war of logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....23:21Where an Italian carrier might matter mostQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....48:42MacArthur as president at the end of the warQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:32:45Supply deliveries that change historyQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:57:31If a second Britain from 1812 entered the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....2:33:29Ning Hai-class ships as Allied escortsQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....3:38:15Royal Navy repairs and US damage controlQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....3:49:04Kimmel at Pearl Harbor with warningQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:04:53British defence cuts and the emergency-procurement cycleQ&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:14:06Lawrence's Arabian experience and later irregular warfareNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall49:05Submarines and clandestine special operationsQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:31:31What did light carriers do in wartime fleets?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:55:30Armed fishing trawlers against U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:58:24AWACS aircraft in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:33:00Would a neutral United States prevent the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:15:47How Napoleonic shipbuilders could contribute in 1936Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:42:29Japanese submarine minelaying against American portsQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:43:30What should replace the turret fighter?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!33:02Empire, free navies, and merchant fleets in world warNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!43:20Why Royal Navy anti-aircraft standardisation laggedQ&A
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?1:08:28The Tribal destroyers left outside the final threeNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin44:27Why correct doctrine can still produce no resultNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin50:49Why peacetime exercises can mislead force designNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin57:54Using Second World War carrier lessons with careChapter
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!29:20Why counting admirals lost in the world wars needs researchQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:17:10An eighteen-gun German light cruiser as a commerce raiderQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:52:10What the panel would change before the Second World WarQ&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage0:00A World War II generation designs a Cold War carrierChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage28:33Damage-control practice preserves institutional memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:18:36Soviet defensive depth and the Molotov-Ribbentrop PactNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:22:13Japan joins Britain and France against Germany and the Soviet UnionQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:40:58An enlarged French fleet after defeat on landQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:01:24Why a Japan-first strategy still needs new shipsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:18:31GUPPY submarines arrive twenty years earlyQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat4:06:29Replacing every Essex with a Midway-class carrierQ&A
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...9:00Carrier size pays for systems, stores, and peopleNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...31:29Why postwar medium powers bought British light fleet carriersNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s36:01Shipbuilding capacity as rearmament insuranceNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:49:30Small carriers as an experience base for fleet aviationNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat16:48Putting Churchill's wartime role in contextQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat47:23Why delaying Norway would change more than French reinforcementsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:34:32Why tropical peacetime trials could miss pom-pom ammunition faultsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:30:29Why a German invasion of Sweden would become a strategic burdenQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:33:24HMS Argus was a useful auxiliary, not a pristine combat carrierQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:20:47A 1,500 km mini-sub is really a coastal submarineQ&A
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier8:40A small force operating in every theatreNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!1:02:10Why the Splendid Cats should avoid ScharnhorstQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:52:22A 1942 war sends the AA cruisers to the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:59:24Why specialist minelaying submarines remained usefulQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!3:15:17How the world wars damaged national capacity beyond the deadNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...16:50Which capital ships deserve preservation?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...50:22How the Z Battery answered an Unrotated Projectile proposalNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:34:04Judging the Mogador class by wartime opportunityQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:49:05What four-turret Tribal destroyers would changeQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:01:09Could angled decks arrive during the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:02:32If Britain lay one hundred miles farther westQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:20:46How early Seafires would change fleet air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:31:08Why the German twin heavy-Flak idea needs a variantQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:34:08Could Imperial Japanese service rivalry have produced civil war?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:37:18Were large German warships strengthened for ice?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:37:26A treaty system allowing slow capital-ship constructionQ&A
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...10:06Why anti-aircraft rockets looked promisingChapter
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...20:26War turns research into usable capabilityNotable Point
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...47:47Allied delivery problems differed from Axis scarcityNotable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!2:12:03Early CF-100 jet fighters would transform Commonwealth air defenseQ&A
- HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 22:29:21War memory and the initiative in the 1930sNotable Point
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier0:00What naval logistics must sustainChapter
- War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion48:24War experience reveals pre-war carrier aimsNotable Point
- War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion49:49War data corrects exercise false positivesNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier7:52Why completed modernisation requires a later warQ&A
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign45:03Why armed merchant cruisers need real striking powerNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!29:52County cruisers against Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:35:18If Japan's 25 mm antiaircraft gun worked like the OerlikonQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!2:11:29Why no major Royal Navy lend-lease omission stands outQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:25:43Capital-ship building capacity after a 1936 treaty collapseQ&A
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!20:54Aircraft ferrying as Pacific logisticsChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:02:35HMS Dasher and incompatible aviation-fuel routinesNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:04:28Dasher's wreck, wartime secrecy, and later rumorsNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:06:35How British and American fuel-safety practice convergedNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:11:15Canadian escort carriers and the growth of an escort navyChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 555:27Soryu and Hiryu at Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:02:01The Indian Ocean raid depended on Sōryū and HiryūNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:02:50Midway carrier losses and air-group attritionChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:05:52Soryu's fueled hangars turn bomb hits into a ship-killing fireNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:07:53Hiryu's last airworthy aircraft and forward flight-deck collapseNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 51:10:33Hiryū survives abandonment before her last crew escapesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:52:34Why Stalin would wait out the wider warNotable Point
- Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage19:48Wartime rearmament and Cold War survivabilityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:59:48Britain's wartime finance and layered postwar shocksChapter
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!30:11Reginald Henderson and wartime construction continuityQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:19:37Full U.S. neutrality shifts more of the burden to CanadaQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:28:28An early German snorkel advantage would invite an early counterQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!2:07:35A Mark 48 needs more than a compatible torpedo tubeQ&A
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!35:31Reduced facilities still kept Seafires flying at SalernoChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191229:19Front-line experts were not recycled into trainingNotable Point
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 191254:16Combat experience and fighter interestChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:14:27Wartime reorganization from kokutai to squadronsChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:27:03Army and navy debate nearly removed Japanese fightersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:07:03Japanese mine and aerial-torpedo investmentNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:11:59German guided-torpedo priorityQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 38:35A delayed carrier force and Force ZNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:17:47Implacable's 81-aircraft Pacific groupChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:43:42What if carrier construction had continued without the pause?Notable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right37:22Illustrious and cumulative bomb damageNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right48:44Formidable and the floating-moving-fighting testNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:03:30Teardrop submarine hulls before snorkelsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:11:16An early U.S. homing torpedo in 1941Q&A
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 532:02Dutch rearmament as a strategic warning signNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 536:37Keeping the Walrus in wartime productionNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 543:13Bombing and late-war air-sea rescueNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 156:47Fleet strength as deterrence and diplomatic leverageNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:34:03Arms-race knock-on effects before World War IIChapter
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:59:42Could stronger fleets deter or fragment a world war?Notable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more19:42Why SM.79 sinking totals need operational contextQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more22:30Italian sources and reassessing the Mediterranean warNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more43:24US neutrality-zone support in the Bismarck huntQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more44:27A combined German capital-ship sortieQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more48:20Detecting German naval activity through radio trafficNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more51:27A split German sortie against Force H and the Home FleetQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more58:59H-class starts and shipyard experienceQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:05:30H-class schedules and earlier German construction timesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:11:44Expanding H-class construction capacityQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:39:39German naval pessimism in a Town-class counterfactualNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines0:26Planned-war carriers after the treaty systemChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines34:26How Implacable missed a possible 1942 service dateNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:01:01What would Halo Pelicans change in World War II?Q&A
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:10:15Which World War II generals are overrated?Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...12:01The missing museum history of minor warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...38:48Fast Nelsons would enlarge Britain's mobile capital-ship forceQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:14:15Taiho and the limits of improving one carrierQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:33:13Accounts of Nelson's 16-inch shells destroying aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:36:22A family account of a Seafire accident and captured-aircraft testingNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:41:17Six-inch shell damage and Graf Spee's protection at the River PlateNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:44:27Britain's response if Bismarck sank Hood and Prince of WalesQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:45:41How Bismarck and Tirpitz together could threaten Arctic convoysNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:57:40An invasion of Hawaii required a different logistics commitmentNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:01:31Preparing the US Navy for night fighting in the SolomonsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:21:29Prewar super-sloops could ease the convoy escort crisisQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:02:56Uninterrupted wartime construction brings British battleships and carriers forwardQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:04:02British armored carriers and the reuse of design studiesNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:35:28Smaller Japanese battleships: doctrine, fuel, and speedQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:40:22Why capital ships become exposed to submarines near operational objectivesNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:45:18Force Z and the ambiguity of asking for air supportNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:46:59Force Z survival and an Allied carrier counterstrokeNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:50:07T-class submarines as pickets for a surviving Force ZQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:04:04An account of steel-plant ownership transfers before Nazi expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:25:45A US Navy wartime frigate would look like a destroyer escortQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:34:28Blackburn Skuas would give Finland useful air supportQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:44:42Oilfield denial complicated Japan's Dutch East Indies gainsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:51:05Bogue-class escort carriers delivered the needed flight deckQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:56:23Why spare naval guns could not immediately rearm the ArmyNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:24:41Admiral Henderson as a wartime First Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:27:10Churchill's choice of Lord Cork and the Norway command problemNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission0:00Rodney and speed as survivalChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission51:55Personnel policy, Nazi pressure, and destroyer identityNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission58:48From Gdynia to the Humber minefieldChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!15:25Swapping Admiral Lee into the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!29:57Norwegian reactions to British port garrisonsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:19:48How Britain reached twenty-five carriers under constructionQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:31:57Royal Navy development if war begins in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:50:11Could ORP Orzel have ambushed Bismarck?Q&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:18:10Why wartime Britain still needed American Merlin productionQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:57:35An Admiral King-style First Sea LordQ&A
- Regia Aeronautica's Mainstay: Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 451:35Regia Marina strength and Italy's shortage of industrial timeChapter
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem9:17Avenger origins in a fast-expanding Fleet Air ArmChapter
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:52:23Why attacking the Home Fleet would squander the U-boat armQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:53:41Appeasement, rearmament, and the cost of delaying warNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered4:00:42Norwegian warning systems and invasion readinessNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote18:42A European war delayed to 1942Q&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote29:53Who benefits when the Second World War is delayedQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:12:57Alaska as part of Canada after the Crimean WarQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:54:54Early helicopters transform convoy escortQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:14:14An Italy-neutral Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:32:03Spain in the Axis turns Gibraltar into a battlefrontQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:56:12Hood survives Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:09:15When British and American radar development mergedQ&A
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 318:45The dream fighter arrives after the problem changedChapter
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 323:29Why the Bearcat never gained a wartime reputationNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 339:40A 1944 war start changes the remembered aircraftNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193832:38Why the Royal Navy avoided a wartime fuel crisisNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193835:04Did the six-week fuel warning include naval reserves?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!51:33Interwar staff learning and persistent political assumptionsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!52:34Capital ships as static Far East deterrenceNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 1: Japanese Doctrine, Modern Naval Detterence, USNs dislike of small carriers & more!53:33HMS Liverpool and economic deterrence off JapanNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign55:58The R class as an armoured convoy and base defenderNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off15:20Warspite inside Narvik fjordQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off56:41No-treaty battle fleet deterrenceQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:25:38Tracer ammunition and Force ZQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:02:49A sister ship for Tiger in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:16:21Indian investment and Far Eastern defenseQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:37:24Why an Axis assault on Malta was unlikely to succeedQ&A
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast1:02:10Triton's crew remembers the lost wartime namesakeChapter
- Musings on Deterrence12:49World-war leaders misread deterrent signalsChapter
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign56:55An 85,000-ton battleship built around overwhelming firepowerNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:01:24Six giant battleships at Denmark Strait and North CapeNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends14:25The Bengal famine and lost maritime capacityQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:18:26Why the Soviets could not simply drive west after BerlinQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:34:33A US Pacific-first strategy in 1942Q&A
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 236:31Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how carriers absorbed new air powerNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 236:31A World War II Tracer would have reshaped naval air defenseNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 243:06A 1943 moving-target radar could have sharpened the horizonNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:26:21Edward Cabalo sees his Guam home through Triton's periscopeNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:53:32Lombok Strait's wartime submarine route and USS BullheadChapter
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!22:01The Douglas DT highlights source loss and aircraft preservationNotable Point
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:09How more carriers change Britain's 1939 choicesQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign12:10How a Tillman treaty fleet tightens blockade pressureQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins24:37Choosing wartime Sea Lords without weakening the fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins51:31Roberts-class monitors and the spare-gun explanationQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:12:04What ending Japanese Army-Navy duplication could changeQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:12:35French naval deployment in the Norway campaignQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:45:53A delayed Pacific war and British super-cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:31:19Why a 'loyal canoe' cannot be inserted into the world warsQ&A
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!12:26How a 74-gun ship survived into the air-power eraNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:17:08A Taranto raid with a dawn follow-upNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:56:03Italy's defeat could leave Germany isolatedChapter
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:19:39Why capital ships could remain central after a shorter warQ&A
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons18:04The collapse of Anglo-French maritime planningNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed22:29Wartime roles for surviving rigid airshipsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed33:08Torpedo testing behind Narvik reliabilityQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:06:36Mass-producing County-class cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:11:52What completed modernizations change in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:59:32A British-led occupation of postwar JapanQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:33:48Preparing the Philippines with one day's warningQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:39:50Could German warships reach African colonies in 1940?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:11:09Why HMS Manchester's scuttling remained controversialQ&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?57:44The overlooked force balance at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist14:12Did pilots' preference for the Dauntless settle the Helldiver comparison?Q&A
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist16:03Why an aircraft's first reception can dominate its historyNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist21:06Why range could not give the Helldiver a unique missionNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions14:21CAM ships and one-launch convoy air defenceChapter
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built30:49Why Japanese radar inventions did not become fleet-wide capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built34:45Which Second World War submarines offered the best habitabilityQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built38:58The factory network behind British naval ammunitionQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:54:06How Fletcher-class destroyers compared with Royal Navy shipsQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:35:45Why proposed 1941 heavy cruisers would not be ready in 1942Q&A
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 811:31Westfalen from airmail tender to wartime prison shipChapter
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 817:24Schwabenland's airmail, Antarctic, and wartime careersChapter
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 825:00Friesenland's long life after seaplane-tender serviceChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers4:27Alliance continuity could not by itself preserve the British EmpireNotable Point
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers28:19Argus tests the full-length flight deckChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:21:40Furious serves from the Tondern raid to the attack on TirpitzNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?39:18Why Britain did not need American yards for major warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:00:11Why Britain went to war over Belgium and PolandQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:02:27What Britain gains by maintaining its capital-ship programQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?3:08:54What eight Midway-class carriers would change in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?5:03:31The Royal Navy's overlooked submarine campaignQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions55:30Stanley Goodall and the hardest pace of naval design changeQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:17:39Why wartime fleets stop chasing maximum ship sizeQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:22:06How Scottish oil could reshape British war powerQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:08:30Why 18-inch guns alone could not save SingaporeQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:12:11What Cunningham might change at SingaporeQ&A
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)32:04The Barracuda belonged to a disrupted plan for a modern carrier air groupChapter
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered33:42Earlier cavity magnetrons reshape radar warfareQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:31:46Littorio facing Lion in a delayed Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:56:23Vanguard still fits a fleet that receives the Lion classQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:15:02A Swordfish-Stuka dogfight defies paper statisticsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:17:13An early St. Lawrence Seaway expands protected war productionQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:41:29Taking the Sea Fury back to 1939Q&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:02:44German 800 mm guns would be exposed near GibraltarQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:06:05How the Royal Marines handled non-Commando personnelQ&A
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines10:38Why 1939 equipment should be judged against 1939 conditionsNotable Point
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines38:32The two-year stopgap that wartime delays kept flyingNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:49:45Earlier rearmament changes the road to warChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London3:10:22The wider war may begin in the Soviet-Japanese Far EastNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 543:33Albania exposes the limits of Italian war readinessChapter
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 51:09:02If Leonardo da Vinci had survived into the Second World WarNotable Point
- The Graf Zepplin's Proposed Teeth: The Fi 167 & JU-87C, Key Aircaft Series 1 - Aircraft 814:45Germany failed to carry its aerial-torpedo work into 1939Notable Point
- The Graf Zepplin's Proposed Teeth: The Fi 167 & JU-87C, Key Aircaft Series 1 - Aircraft 828:49German naval air power lacked industrial depthNotable Point
- The Graf Zepplin's Proposed Teeth: The Fi 167 & JU-87C, Key Aircaft Series 1 - Aircraft 831:58Early-war aircraft depended on torpedoes to sink major shipsNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:54:25Which naval commanders deserve more attention?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:02:12Was Philip Vian the officer who boarded Altmark?Q&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:50Phantom warships in wartime intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books30:49Judging historical leaders in the role they facedNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books35:54Who takes command after a ship's officers are woundedQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books55:37How far H-class construction really progressedQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:13:58How modern military rations could change prewar stockpilesQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:32:06Why the Type IV Hunt destroyers stopped at twoQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:39:59Fighting the Second World War with 1945 technologyQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:52:05Why V and W destroyers were converted into escortsQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!1:06:18Battleship gold runs to CanadaChapter
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues16:10Why carrier-numbered air groups broke down in wartimeChapter
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues35:58How interwar decisions created a branching lineageNotable Point
- USN Squadron Organisation: The Bureau of Aeronautics had Issues55:01Wartime effectiveness despite bureaucratic reorganizationChapter
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered17:03Why invading Australia would overwhelm Japanese logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered49:59Could Germany complete seven Scharnhorsts by 1941?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:07:10Japan joins the Allies and follows Taranto at dawnQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:14:14How an Allied Japan changes the Atlantic warQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:51:56How prewar assault ships could change NorwayQ&A
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution38:27Norway demonstrates Furious's wartime adaptabilityChapter
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution42:04A necessary refit removes Furious from the Force Z questionNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!13:52Sailing vessels still performed combat work in both world warsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:35:17A modern US arsenal would collapse Axis logistics rapidlyQ&A
- 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
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:21:36Continuous construction builds a faster wartime fleetChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:26:09A higher Allied baseline pressures Yamato and the AxisChapter
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:32:09Could stronger treaty fleets improve diplomacy?Notable Point
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:33:25A stronger Regia Marina pins British ships in the MediterraneanNotable Point
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:35:15Faster British capital ships close German escape routesNotable Point
- Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 332:43A wide operational career from Greece to D-DayChapter
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers39:21Macchi M.18s anchor a familiar aviation systemChapter
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers49:13Aviation's rapid improvement changes the Mediterranean balanceChapter
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers54:14Mussolini entered the war before Italy was readyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:49Roger Hill's memoir of wartime destroyer commandQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:33:49What mature Napier Sabre plans could give prewar BritainQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:57:45How a 1943 B-36 changes strategic bombingQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:33:06How VT-fuzed pom-poms change wartime air defenseQ&A
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began52:33Strategic bombing theory and the bomb-supply problemChapter
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:44:10Can a country create a coastal navy during a war?Q&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:45:51Why Britain's Home Guard was more dangerous than its caricatureNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:34:36Why an early R-4360 would influence 1941 aircraft, not 1939 fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:21:17Counting ships lost to the Hs 293 guided bombQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:53:52Why avoiding the Great Depression might not rescue FranceQ&A
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 250:05Rearmament is also a signal to potential aggressorsChapter
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:43:38Could a 1945 stalemate create a divided Poland?Q&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:33Why a June 1944 Allied fleet total is hard to defineQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered26:33Why the Home Guard was not an ordinary militiaQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered29:09The Kriegsmarine after a failed Operation Sea LionQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered40:10World War II without the Great DepressionQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered48:30A twenty-ship Royal Indian Navy in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered59:23British homing-torpedo development in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:16:52Japan as a British supplier in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:34:13The Mark 14 torpedo as a testing failureQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:58:03What modern battery density would change in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:34:32Who the United States might bomb in November 1944Q&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:51:10What changes without the Molotov-Ribbentrop PactQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships1:01:15Wolverine and Sable scaled carrier qualification safelyChapter
- Douglas TBD Devastator: Not So Bad as History Says - Key Aircraft Series 1, Aircraft 61:00:32Wartime acceleration distorts judgments of prewar aircraftChapter
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.12:35Ise and Hyuga as compromised hybrid carriersChapter
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.20:23Why no navy mastered every part of carrier aviationNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.21:45How more British carriers could have changed wartime operationsNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.25:46Could pilot rotation have sustained Japanese naval aviation?Q&A
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.38:49Conscription and equipment limits in a hypothetical world warNotable Point
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...20:15The first aviation Ark Royal becomes PegasusNotable Point
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...34:00Carrier damage control and the loss of Ark RoyalChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:51:13Why coastal-force improvisations are hard to documentNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:53:36Canada, wartime conduct, and Geneva folkloreQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered48:09Improvised splinter protection on wartime destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:23:26A Royal Navy minesweeper officer's memoirQ&A
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 139:22Working up proves Unicorn's flexibilityChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s54:24How helicopters reshape early-war ASWChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:43:28Early submarines remain vulnerable to acoustic detectionNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:04:36The helicopter race spreads beyond Britain and AmericaChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:46:44Why early helicopters make the naval war unpredictableChapter
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/20243:01Writing an alternate history around a Washington Treaty cancellationChapter
- Naval History Writing Competition 2023/202411:09Carrying the counterfactual into a World War II testChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:36:44Would an all-Tribal destroyer force help Britain in 1939?Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time46:50Carrier air groups should be judged against their missionQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time48:13Lion-class ships would not overturn South American neutralityQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:02:50Sixteen Commonwealth Unicorns transform the 1941 carrier balanceQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:36:15An early B-29 extends strategic bombing without producing an instant victoryQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:09:02American neutrality might end in fighting without a formal declarationQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:33:09A royal marriage could keep Japan aligned with Britain in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:37:43Extreme quotations can distort wartime British-Polish relationsNotable Point
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:47:47Without advancing air power, the Second World War looks more like the FirstQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:03:12A biographical reference for Japanese wartime leadershipChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:12:32An Allied Japan makes Pearl Harbor strategically incoherentQ&A
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?10:53Why an escort-first order could not instantly free shipbuilding capacityNotable Point
- Pierre Levasseur: A Designer of Note, Key Aircraft Series 1 - Aircraft 522:09Vibration grounds the PL.7, but scarcity returns it to serviceNotable Point
- Pierre Levasseur: A Designer of Note, Key Aircraft Series 1 - Aircraft 523:05The PL.7 puts Swordfish obsolescence in contextNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō4:00Ben-my-Chree in a wartime Fleet Air Arm songNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō21:13Royal Navy exercises defined a carrier's escortNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō43:47Ryūjō's Henderson Field strike drains its air groupChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō46:58Enterprise finds Ryūjō and Saratoga sinks herChapter
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:26:16Japan joins Germany in September 1939Q&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:34:03If the Channel Islands sat in the middle of the English ChannelQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:31:19What an early St. Lawrence Seaway changes in World War IIQ&A
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI17:22HMS Protector outlived her original gunboat roleNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI34:28Presence duties and the World War II reserve shortfallNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI38:55The Kriegsmarine entered war before its fleet was readyNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:15:28Italian naval professionalism beyond the stereotypeNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:01:48The fleet at the outbreak of war shapes the opening campaignsNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:07:47What would one hundred reserve sloops change in 1939?Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!27:34How the US Navy might answer a 1941 carrier warningQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!50:56German success against Royal Navy codesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!54:22Why Bofors did not replace the pom-pom before 1939Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:07:59Glorious and Force Z as strategic defeatsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:08:49Comparing Littorio and Scharnhorst's wartime careersQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:23:54Giving Britain advanced rockets before World War IIQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:32:59Food and living conditions in British submarinesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:44:21Dutch Dunkerque-style battlecruisers in Allied serviceQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:25:33The United States enters both world wars immediatelyQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:27:41Renown-type battlecruisers instead of the Revenge classQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:28:42What Britain gained from Destroyers for BasesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:55:39Expanding British shipyards before World War IIQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:03:58Britain enters the world wars with domestic oilQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:35:01Britain's prewar cruiser shortageQ&A
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:47:19British counterintelligence limited German clandestine operationsQ&A
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:39:27Why a British technical lead might delay war without preventing itNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence44:04A proposed interwar sloop reserve for 1939Notable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:04:30An early Mark 24 acoustic torpedo could cripple the U-boat forceQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:18:43British armed merchantmen used naval gun parties rather than a separate Armed GuardQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:19:26Bombing, materials, housing, and competing priorities constrained VickersQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:32:31Heavy naval-gun capability disappeared when continuous development stoppedQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:38:21A German-American clash remained likely without Hitler's declarationQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:53:23Geography leaves defeated fleets few neutral ports to reachQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:58:15Dudley Pound was the kinder senior officer to work forQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:00:39Early American entry would transform both world wars at seaQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:21:42Capturing Gibraltar requires Spain and TurkeyQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:47:53Fisher's earlier brilliance would not guarantee useful Second World War leadershipQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:54:28Submarines and aircraft dominate many naval friendly-fire casesQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:18:30Jet fighters alter Britain's wartime air defenseChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:38:56A visible technology lead may delay the European warNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:35:12World War I Flower sloops still served in World War IIQ&A
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 712:10Three S-class groups and the prewar boats' heavy lossesChapter
- Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 248:09Carriers offered reach while battleships still guaranteed forceNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 611:30Construction numbers in fleet contextChapter
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 644:15Pollyanna the reindeer aboard HMS TridentNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 155:10Interwar aviation connected First World War ideas to 1939Chapter
- HMS Nubian: Most Battle Honours of the Tribal Class - KSS3 S5 Comment Response2:14Why German destroyers adopted 150 mm gunsQ&A
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 528:19Air-defense refits grew around an unchanged main batteryChapter
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 537:14Enterprise became a trusted wartime gold carrierChapter
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response20:04Enterprise at Eastern Solomons and the Pearl Harbor counterfactualQ&A
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response20:42Why Germany needed a short war against stronger coalitionsNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...19:09Five Lexington-scale conversions transform Royal Navy carrier strengthQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...21:57A Japanese night bombardment of Pearl Harbor trades surprise for delayQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...25:06Source language shapes access to China's Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...25:35Early Philippine independence would not remove the Japanese threatQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...50:06The German capital-ship fleet was overestimated as a wholeQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...55:06Japanese Home Islands defences added to invasion riskQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:05:26Axis battleship gunnery failures had different national causesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:30:30Britain uses American yards for repairs, not a replacement building programQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:35:59Prewar naval mistakes in carriers, destroyers, intelligence, and strategyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:40:58The Channel Dash forced closer naval-air coordinationQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:46:56Adriatic war studies are easier to find in Italian than EnglishQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:50:11Radar and radar-controlled gunnery are the wartime innovationsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:52:26Unlimited Ark Royals free British yards for the rest of the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:57:07More submarines could strengthen Japan's defence perimeterQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:07:40Battery production constrained Japan's submarine forceQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:11:54Minelaying submarines could carry Japan's war to the American coastQ&A
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response23:15Why 'the British Empire was flat broke' is too simpleNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response24:33Could holding Narvik have divided wartime Norway?Q&A
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response4:05Illustrious keeps serving despite reduced speedNotable Point
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response10:55Could Britain supply fuel for USS Arizona?Q&A
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response12:14Keeping years of naval fuel in reserveNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 437:46Hitler was not the German command's only problemNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:01:27Canaris and fears for postwar GermanyQ&A
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 35:53Six Mark I ships before the mass-produced LSTChapter
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response38:46A wartime G3 would carry stronger antiaircraft defensesQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response48:04G3s could set a 16.5-inch treaty limitNotable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 220:50Foxglove's rescue work and Second World War survivalChapter
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 229:06Laburnum loses mobility for a headquarters roleNotable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 243:33What six extra sloops might have changed in 1939Notable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:28:45Industrial mobilization shaped naval refitsChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:33:54Why the Lion-class battleships kept slippingQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:50:48Could Iron Duke have returned to wartime service?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:11:34Was Hood a battlecruiser or fast battleship in 1939?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:14:18Battlecruiser roles dispersed during the Second World WarChapter
- HNLMS Schorpioen: KSS1 S6 Comment Response7:00What Britain's maritime priority left underdevelopedNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response22:50What if Cerberus had become an imperial defence type?Notable Point
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign42:18Are good-enough numbers better than a few perfect platforms?Q&A
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:24Tiger's paper strengths were undermined by logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat34:37World War II as Britain's nightmare war planQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat44:44World War II fought with 1960s weaponsQ&A
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 236:51Town-class cruisers became wartime fleet cornerstonesChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 246:36Edinburgh and Belfast patrol north of IcelandChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:33:28Why Japan could threaten Australia but not conquer itNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies10:19The unrotated projectile as an aerial minefieldChapter
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies16:38HMS Hood exposes the unrotated projectile's flawsChapter
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies25:10Tulip tank rockets help capture the Lingen bridgeChapter
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies28:09Katyusha launchers trade sustained fire for mobilityNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies29:19Fritz X and Hs 293 pushed attacks beyond Allied defensesNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies1:02:37Air-to-air missiles make trained pilots a strategic targetChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare36:03Britain already fielded the Gloster Meteor in 1944Q&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:03:59Rail traffic sustaining wartime PortsmouthQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:20:08Why South American states did not aid Germany moreNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:31:27What two Town-class cruisers imply for the Free Polish NavyQ&A
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 739:15Promising ships ended as damaged hulks at ToulonChapter
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 755:35Their usefulness made the Dunkerques dangerous after France fellNotable Point
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 71:00:38What if the Dunkerques had joined the Allies?Notable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides18:32Wartime readiness can consume one engine's lifeNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:15:38How much gun is needed against a galleon?Q&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases2:10:38Without delay, carriers arrive around 1940 and Lions around 1942Q&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases2:37:41Warship Camouflage for identifying ships and schemesChapter
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases2:52:49HMS London's 1941 B5/B6 camouflageQ&A
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:15:14Fast treaty fleets leave German raiders few safe rolesNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:17:51Carrier aviation under a different treaty balanceChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:20:46Why a Yamato-like answer becomes less attractiveChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...18:49Why submarine success cannot be read from sinkings aloneNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:15:49Taranto, Japan, and a radically different Second World WarChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:20:54Japan's treaty stake opens an Anglo-Japanese pathNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:35:15Why an Anglo-Japanese alliance could draw America into the warQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:40:23China remains the hardest contradiction in an Anglo-Japanese allianceQ&A
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 12:29Why a wartime history chose ScyllaNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 127:39Scylla's mine damage and Charybdis's final operationChapter
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series25:54Hutchinson's images of British submarines and a global warChapter
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series40:58World War II priorities varied by navyQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:28:54Hutchinson's pages move from bomb damage to carrier exercises and bombardmentChapter
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:40:54British monitors still served in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:43:12Post-war ship classes would overwhelm the Axis navies in 1941Q&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:27Why Norway matters more than its military sizeChapter
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:26:08The central lesson: small changes accumulate through a long warNotable Point
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...44:51Britain's financial strain was cumulativeNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 911:47Royal Navy carrier strength before the Second World WarQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 91:16:21Japanese torpedo boats and the Schnellboot comparisonNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series17:03When a deputy effectively directs a fleetQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series20:58Reading a wartime picture weekly from December 1942Chapter
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series34:30Finding and using Hutchinson's wartime weekliesQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series37:15Weighing explanations for General Sikorski's deathQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:26:07Why Operation Sea Lion remained a paper invasionNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:53:42The cosh as unofficial wartime equipmentQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)6:09Choosing consistent years for a war-era sampleNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)21:43Prewar carrier flag-command arrangementsNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)29:39Wartime annuals as a forum for naval theoryChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)32:00Identifying foreign fleets with wartime reference booksNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)35:51Contemporaneous views of German naval threatsNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)39:09How open-source naval information circulated during warNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)45:52A wartime chronicle of Lingayen GulfNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)56:55Wartime fuel oil and naval readinessNotable Point
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner27:20The race for Germany's surface-raider recordsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 821:43A 30-knot heavy battle line in the Second World WarNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 81:10:02Shipbuilding capacity is more than empty slipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 81:13:42Royal dockyards gave naval procurement a public benchmarkNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:12Hutchinson's pictorial history magazines as wartime sourcesChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series48:39James Allen Ward's climb onto a burning Wellington wingNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:04:07Destroyers, aircraft, and the contest to attack railwaysNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:05:11How wartime picture books passed censorshipQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:00:15The symbolic cost of attacking HMS VictoryQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:17:29If destroyer torpedoes had sunk BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:18:09What an early mining campaign against Japan would requireQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:20:51Japanese submarine minelayers against the U.S. West CoastQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:22:03Could a raid on Bletchley Park destroy Allied codebreaking?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:28:08A submarine commando raid alongside DoolittleQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:32:55Signals intelligence beyond the Enigma storyNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:33:53Why some Second World War intelligence secrets may remain lostQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:40:21The gap in broad Indian Ocean naval historiesQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:42:11Why Falklands coastal batteries prepared for torpedo boatsQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:50:11The scale of mining Japan's coastQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:56:28Why Japan did not plan to invade AustraliaQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:02:39Meteor and Me 262 production and serviceabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:55:29The human cost of invading JapanQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:09Why torpedo boats became gunboatsChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:22:48A German World War I torpedo boat returned in Soviet serviceNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:56:09Small-boat doctrine had to be learned in warChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:49:46A32 and Sulev: a First World War boat in Soviet serviceNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre2:24:41What G-5 torpedo boats actually did in wartimeNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre3:08:34How Soviet torpedo reliability improved during the warNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 455:27The Loxley family’s losses across two world warsNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:12Why European torpedo boats became gunboatsChapter
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics24:22Heavily armed small combatants in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics52:10Could earlier support have brought jet aircraft into the 1930s?Q&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:10:31What an earlier transistor could changeQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:24:39How Britain might answer a German mining strategyQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:59:21A British Iceland and the opening of the Atlantic warQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:08:09How long did Atlantic convoys actually take?Q&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:27:36How Typhoons and Tempests attacked shippingQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:27:10Book watch point: defending Okinawa's transport areaChapter
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:36:47British and Australian ships under kamikaze attackQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:58:47Who had the most effective maritime strike air power?Q&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre8:18Why torpedo boats became gun boatsChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:10:33British armour and the value of a mechanized armyNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:11:46From France to ABDA: why coalition command matteredNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 944:44Tryon, HMS Victoria, and independent command judgementNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 948:42Sloops, frigates, and constabulary naval presenceNotable Point
- The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must0:22National strength beyond military appearanceChapter
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:10:31A Black Swan as a Second World War submarine hunterQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:16:19Why German warships inherited the complexity of German tanksQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:58:46Why the Baltic was not a quiet theatreQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:03:40Why river warfare disappears from many Second World War accountsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:06:33How an Axis Sweden would change Baltic operationsQ&A
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:34:00World War II was a logistics and attrition warChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 35:00Could earlier Hunt orders have changed 1940?Notable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:15:50The wider question: escorts ordered a year earlierNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!41:11How M-class variants might have been used in the Second World WarQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!53:28A 1942 war would find a stronger Royal NavyQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!1:05:27Graf Zeppelin would not close the British marginQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!1:14:42What a delay of war to 1942 would requireQ&A
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 10:01The Egret-class sloops and two revealing wartime lossesChapter
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 113:36HMS Auckland lost to dive-bombers on an escort missionChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 101:36The small sloops behind Britain's later ASW escortsChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1027:42Which Flower class was the wartime emergency design?Notable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?0:35Italy entered the war before its naval buildup was readyChapter
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'30:42HMS Centurion: target ship, decoy, and Mulberry breakwaterChapter
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'35:34Could an 'overage' category have preserved older capital ships?Notable Point
- Joffre Class: Too Many Enemies - Key Ship Series 5, Epsiode 528:20Vichy and Allied service implied very different fatesNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:13:17Did any warship carry grass on its deck?Q&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built33:50How earlier officer losses narrowed wartime leadershipQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built56:51Comparing prewar leadership losses in the Army and NavyQ&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:19:17Was HMS Victory targeted during the Blitz?Q&A
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built1:51:01Why World War II wooden craft used different forestryQ&A
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI1:32How to connect a Second World War mistake to the FirstChapter
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI1:33:47World War II demanded a broader analogy than World War INotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?14:02What counts as a First World War-derived mistake?Chapter
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?1:40:42When successful WWI leaders faced a different warNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:48:06Adrian Carton de Wiart's extraordinary military careerNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!31:59How quickly an interwar submarine could be builtQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!57:17Greek Tegetthoffs would reshape the eastern MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!59:39A modernised R class as a Far East deterrentQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:18:07What American-scale industrial capacity would add to the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:30:42What reliable high-pressure steam by 1934 changesQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:21:11What helicopter ASW would demand of an escortQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:54:16Simonstown as an Indian Ocean logistics hubQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:13:48Eight fast R-class ships would reset the battleship raceQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:26:15How 1938 transistors accelerate radar and computingQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:38:19Royal Navy priorities with eighteen months' warningQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 940:14Could an Alsace class have entered service?Notable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties32:40Madagascar exposed South Africa's missing naval depthNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 430:05Motorization did not guarantee strategic readinessNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:51:46Would a larger Indian Navy have defected?Q&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer9:20When cumulative losses erase the Kriegsmarine surface fleetQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer25:22Dispersing German surface ships as a fleet in beingQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer53:52Replacing teak on a wartime warship deckQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:04:23The Royal Navy's access to wartime icebreakersQ&A
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...45:23South Africa and the neglected Cape sea routeNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...1:06:52French naval support in British war planningNotable Point
- What the Governments at the 1922 Washington Treaty wanted...1:24:45How naval limits could deepen later fearChapter
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 335:33How one completed battleship might have changed Baltic calculationsNotable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 31:04:11A late photograph and incremental shipyard workNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture33:03Why mass-produced escorts used flowers, rivers, bays, and lochsQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:03:38The Royal Navy's carrier force and construction pipeline in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:14:25How a commando raid alongside Doolittle could alter Japanese prioritiesQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:44:57Waiting to counterattack as a questionable lesson from World War IQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:46:12Churchill's naval advocacy under European-war prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:04:52A 1939-40 Pacific war before the Kido Butai maturedQ&A
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 24:05Cancellation as a wartime timing decisionNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 257:50Yamato’s resource trap in an infrastructure warNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:22:11What were the Royal Navy's last wooden vessels?Q&A
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)2:50:20A wartime burial letter without a recoverable grave locationNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD32:49Bismarck's fame can narrow the Royal Navy's wartime storyNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:12:03Warehouses and fuel stocks are naval combat powerNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:16:36Churchill advised the pause, but government accepted itQ&A
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 129:58What earlier Lion construction could have changedNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...40:23Ambition versus a buildable Soviet battle fleetNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...47:38Building a 15-inch alternative to King George VChapter
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?9:57Why 100 Martlets would have matteredNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?15:54The Brewster Buffalo as a 1939 Fleet Air Arm bridgeQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?36:57Comparing carrier air wings for a war delayed to 1942Q&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:59:57If America concentrates on Japan before GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?4:25:24Combining Grand Fleet mass with British Pacific Fleet technologyQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years24:10Cultural memory compresses changing air powerNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:13:59Dunkirk beyond the small-boats storyNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:23:39Why a long war favoured Allied industrial depthNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?7:33The myths about interwar Royal Navy policyChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:02:36British production extended beyond the home islandsNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:32:01Was the Second World War a surprise to the British public?Q&A
- 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
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:57:43Industrial infrastructure limited Axis war plansChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:57:58Neutral Italy could prolong an Anglo-German warNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:01:53Axis forces built teeth without logistical depthNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:06:04Halifax was not a simple route to negotiated surrenderNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:16:40Italy's Axis alignment was constrained by readiness and politicsNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?3:20:10How cultural memory turns history into mythsNotable Point
- 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
- Theodore Roosevelt: Theory in Action - A Naval Theorist who became President!44:35Infrastructure turns potential into wartime powerNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction8:30What rapid-firing heavy guns would changeNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:43:54Radar fire control changes the engagementQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued58:05An Astute-class submarine in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:02:28Delay risks an Anglo-American industrial coalitionQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:22:19The human limit on multi-target fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:09:08Montevideo Maru, Rabaul, and the cost of official silenceNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:56:47Mark 48 torpedoes in a wartime American submarine fleetQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued4:33:40Glorious and the cost of inadequate escortNotable Point
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs1:46:11A Spanish Vittorio Veneto and Mediterranean strategyQ&A
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &118:36Pairing fast carriers with capital shipsNotable Point
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1130:01Lexington at the Coral SeaChapter
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 919:10A short career carrying centuries of Ark Royal honoursNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 931:30The risk of using fleet carriers as submarine huntersNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 933:39A false sinking claim made Ark Royal a marked shipNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 945:20The strike that slowed BismarckNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 946:31The torpedo hit and Ark Royal's accelerating listChapter
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 949:33How evacuation delayed Ark Royal's damage controlChapter
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 953:19A long salvage attempt ended in capsizeNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 91:02:54What timely damage control might have preservedNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!3:06:31British motor torpedo boats needed opportunitiesQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!3:16:53A third Renown could reshape British wartime deploymentsQ&A
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 82:41Speed, fuel, and an unusually wide war careerNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 715:24Eleven battle honours on the Illustrious nameNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 747:42Bomb damage exposes an armoured carrier's weak pointsChapter
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:07:30Why Japan's elite naval pilots were hard to replaceNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!10:21Darwin convoy defence and the P-40 interceptionChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!13:47Italian capital ships and the danger of planning for the wrong warQ&A
- HMCS Haida Comment Response21:13Could destroyers replenish torpedoes and depth charges at sea?Q&A
- HMCS Haida Comment Response26:24How close did Tribal destroyers get to Bismarck?Q&A
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 50:01HMS Nubian's exceptional war recordChapter
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 520:41Convoy escort and uncertain U-boat claimsChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney12:03Where armed merchant ships could strengthen convoysQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:02:27Why Churchill remained the likely First Lord in 1939Q&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:20:10The strategic cost of losing RMS Queen MaryQ&A
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 47:21Why official carrier speed figures need cautionNotable Point
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 422:06Enterprise's aircraft at Pearl HarborChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane25:14Fremantle as a multinational submarine baseChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane29:48Reading the Darwin raids with careNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane1:01:46A guide to Brisbane's wartime submarine baseChapter
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 30:26How Warspite became the Royal Navy's Grand Old LadyChapter
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 252:33Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc, and close supportChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...19:05The Altmark Incident and the limits of Norwegian neutralityChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...23:55Boarding Altmark and freeing 299 prisonersChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...27:43Norwegian mobilization and the first Narvik failureNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...34:19Cossack at Narvik: forcing the harbour fightChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...36:37The missed opportunity to land troops at NarvikNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...37:35Dive-bomber evasion before stronger Tribal air defensesNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...39:04Cossack's night attacks during the Bismarck pursuitChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...45:53HMS Maori at Bismarck's final actionNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...46:37Cossack's loss and the destroyer's vulnerable routine missionNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses16:21The Second Five-Year Plan meets shipyard capacityChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses37:09Why war still interrupts the Soviet fleetNotable Point
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?7:00Choosing a World War II reference workNotable Point
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?44:25Postwar planning assumed imperial survivalQ&A
- How do Navies Learn from War1:45A wartime radar operator marks bombs on an airfieldNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat43:48How the Royal Navy could answer dispersed German raidersQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:11:31Norway's missed warning after the invasion of DenmarkQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:27:50Why Sea Lion needs more than a landing planQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:36:40Sea Lion required visible prewar amphibious investmentQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:41:22Why invading Switzerland in 1939 is a poor German alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:58:10An American entry on Germany's side would transform both world warsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:24:30What an early British hydrogen bomb would changeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:27:23What actually constrained Project HabakkukQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:45:31An early Anglo-American alliance brings the United States into both warsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:07:16Where British carrier doctrine was tested without a carrier duelQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:11:40Why a teardrop hull was not a universal wartime answerQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:16:40How a war delayed to 1942 changes Fleet Air Arm aircraftQ&A
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...3:30:46How R-class escorts could constrain BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland24:08If Germany failed to invade NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:03:54German ports and the British occupation zoneQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 244:23Stuka sirens and the gap between designed and fielded equipmentNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 21:31:38USS Johnston: when flooding briefly checked the firesNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 21:32:29USS Franklin: damage control and command failureQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 21:39:59How First World War shocks reshaped the Royal NavyChapter
- The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?29:02Remembering a campaign that had no single dayNotable Point
- The Romans are counter attack, the Numidians are coming for me, can we stabilise it?2:29:02A Soviet battle-fleet programme would reshape rearmamentNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett51:38British railway repair units under air attackQ&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done49:09Reading Tribal and Fletcher destroyer silhouettesNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:58:04Atlanta-style cruisers and saturation fireNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:14:00The appeal and limits of 14-inch volume of fireNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:34:24Alaska-class firepower against an outnumbered raiderNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:44:27Italian ammunition quality and corrupt contractingNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:03:16French naval influence before Operation TorchQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:55:32Why capital-ship yard capacity might disappearQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:50:06The Altmark affair: neutrality, prisoners, and interventionChapter
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:56:19A net intended for Altmark catches another German shipNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 317:43All-forward guns for manoeuvring ship actionsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 321:25K3 as the fast nine-gun eighteen-inch extremeChapter
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 11:17:53An unfinished carrier and a counterfactual Norway roleNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?50:46Would Canadian battleships have led to carriers?Q&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:38:52Why costly Japanese destroyer resistance could distort the attrition pictureNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:43:13Halsey's aggression and the limits of plausible replacementsQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:51:25Why gun-armed Tribal destroyers matteredNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:18:16HMS Punjabi and the danger of fleet collisionsNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20231:11:44Outnumbered defenders still need comparable weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation23:06Fuel management as carrier survivabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:39:03Japan's 1943 defensive turn loses the industrial raceChapter
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:47:32Warspite's rapid fire against a Normandy armoured columnQ&A
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198040:23Using siege mentality as a strategic heuristicNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198045:43The northern flank before the Cold WarChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:51:58Why a Norway-only war could test West GermanyNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)21:49The GIUK approaches mattered before the Cold WarChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)39:27Iceland and the Second World War origins of GIUK strategyChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:10:13What if Britain had long-range maritime patrol aircraft in 1939?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:32:20Could Britain have built an early SOSUS-style barrier?Q&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...33:38Which screen portrayal of Admiral Halsey is most accurate?Q&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:46:02Shipboard radar and long-range gunneryNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:42:32Italian destroyers in Mediterranean and Atlantic seasNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:51:19Recognising national destroyer design in a simulationNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)10:14Fleet concentration rather than one-on-one duelsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)40:11The unrealised possibility of Second World War boarding actionsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:30:22How Bradley shaped the Patton-Montgomery rivalry on filmNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:31:06Cunningham, Alan Brooke, and naval policyNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)2:40:45The NHS had roots before the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus25:55What better Japanese army-navy cooperation changesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus1:08:27Spain and Soviet readiness in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:03:09How mountainous Low Countries alter maritime strategyQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:09:38Women as essential naval wartime personnelQ&A
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:47:13Why the scenario stops short of predicting the later warNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat11:04Carrier and cruiser options around Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat18:12A carrier counterfactual behind Hood's lossQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat31:54Small carriers and treaty loopholesQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat42:40Judging Admiral Fletcher's caution without hindsightQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:01:15Why HMS Formidable was ordered away from gunfireNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:05:52Graf Spee's scuttling and damaged support systemsQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:52:21Why early rocket submarines used deck launchersQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:36:52If Britain were larger and 34 miles farther westQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:41:26Who commanded a destroyer flotillaQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:44:02From operational drop tanks to mass productionNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:57:16Why British and American carrier doctrines divergedNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)57:39Roboute Guilliman through Nimitz, Cunningham and St VincentNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:01:03Montgomery, MacArthur and the burden of command egoNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:03:52Serving under MacArthur or commanding the German Navy?Q&A
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:05:58Why Wellington might adapt well to modern warNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?1:30German fuel dependence before the diesel-fleet questionChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?1:06:41A diesel fleet concentrates a strategic vulnerabilityChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion13:52A German nuclear breakthrough still would not guarantee victoryNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion15:43Britain could answer nuclear escalation with chemical warfareNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion2:00:20Would the United States still enter the European war?Q&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword18:06Second World War veterans in Cold War reservesQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword22:33The long prelude to war in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword58:23Why good-enough ships can win warsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:58:47Far Distant Ships and Canada's wartime navyChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:03:50Canadian experience built inside the Royal NavyChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:11:43Three starting points for World War II naval strategyChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:45:28An early Japanese defeat redirects Allied resourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:49:30Why Axis command could not become unifiedQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:53:16A 1941 victory reshapes lives, budgets, and carrier developmentNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition17:09Q&A: Why not integrate the British and French armiesQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:02:11Q&A: When city-perimeter fortifications fadedQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition4:06:23Q&A: Why Brest's U-boat pens remainQ&A
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:10:19A mass submarine programme would trigger a responseNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:59:56A weapon must be maintainable in warNotable Point
- Battle of San Nicolas(1811): Revolutionary Battles Part 2/213:44Captured shipping and wartime transport capacityNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:37:38Why German wonder weapons could not reverse the warNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:45:38The Four Year Plan and Nazi administrative rivalryNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:14:19How mine warfare became a British Second World War strengthNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:15:54Reliability over theoretical perfection in wartime technologyNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:18:05Sherman adaptability against the search for a perfect tankNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:18:56The T-34 and the institutional cost of Soviet purgesNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:27:50Could an Italian submarine have attacked New York?Q&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:31:28Anti-submarine warfare depends on trained formationsNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:38:10Why limpet mining could disrupt the Allied war effortNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword50:33Anti-ship missiles emerged from a long guided-weapon continuumQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?27:37Dreyer and Pollen took different routes into fire controlNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?58:02British hit volume mattered despite poor shell performanceNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:16:12Night-fighting doctrine probably survives a shorter JutlandNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century52:15How coastal convoy geography and shipbuilding shaped the submarine contestNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century58:21K XI and the logistical penalty of mixed torpedo calibersNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:06:20The Royal Navy S class as a balanced northern-water submarineNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:08:58Wolf packs versus the Atlantic escort systemChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:17:47HMS Venturer's submerged attack on U-864Notable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:33:18The overlooked submarine war in the Indian OceanNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?32:01Did American battleships still carry torpedoes in the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books23:06What a surviving HMS Tiger might do in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books34:41How more retained capital ships reshape the Royal Navy in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:44:49Fleet Air Arm honours connect successive warsNotable Point
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you44:19Why primary and secondary battery priorities changeNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:51Could Japan have improved its naval infrastructure before the Pacific War?Q&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:27:12Scaling armour for an 18-inch AgincourtChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:32:20Would a refitted Agincourt retain torpedoes?Q&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:32:44Giving Agincourt a Warspite-style modernizationNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:36:29German limits in an 18-inch-gun worldChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:43:40Testing Bismarck's speed, range, and canal limitsNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:49:43The narrow range window favoring the Bismarck-like shipNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:08:39An 18-inch Agincourt against a Bismarck-like opponentNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:14:55Reconstructing Yamato for the comparisonChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:36:47Range advantage cannot remove magazine riskNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources33:32Royal Navy submarine histories for the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:32:06Caroli and Schmidt's preparation for espionage in BritainChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:37:36How Caroli's friendship with Schmidt broke his resistanceNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:39:46Controlled wireless traffic and the staged Summer-Biscuit meetingNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:43:49Canaris's loyalty to Germany and opposition to the Nazi regimeQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:06:39Soviet annexation and the new frontier with RomaniaNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:08:49Molotov's Berlin visit and the proposed Four Power PactChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:11:20British bombs over Molotov's Berlin talksNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:13:46How Soviet Axis membership could change the warNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:16:05Could Germany reach North Africa through Turkey and the Middle East?Q&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:25:48Double Cross intelligence against Operation Sea LionNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:29:17German assumptions about Chain Home radarNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:29:32Home Guard plans for burning oil on invasion beachesQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:31:41Why the Home Guard could make an invasion bog downNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:36:14Finding Home Guard defenses after the warQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:46:26British stay-behind preparations and SOE methodsNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:48:23Radio security checks that warned of a captured agentQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources2:51:47Why most Dunkirk refugees remained in EuropeQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources3:26:55The Condor's transition from airliner to Atlantic reconnaissanceChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources3:46:00Why Mediterranean carrier air combat looks less decisiveQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:04:00A Four Power coalition's shortage of trucks and fuelNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:07:12Why a coalition route into India still needs a supply systemNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:10:41Béarn as a benchmark for limited carrier useNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:11:08Vulnerable coalition sea routes and a possible Italian defectionNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:37Seven submarines and the West Coast threatNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood5:42I-17 and the Ellwood shellingNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood13:43Ellwood's psychological aftermathNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood33:25Peter Iredale and improvised invasion defensesNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood36:07Fort Stevens and range disciplineNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood42:28Pacific force allocation and invasion realityNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood24:28Ellwood as a visible coastal targetNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood27:37Japan's thin submarine patrol off the West CoastNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood31:15I-17 and Kozo NishinoNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood35:48What the Ellwood bombardment actually hitChapter
- Bombardment of Ellwood44:30What I-17's 5.5-inch deck gun could doNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood46:33Ellwood and the Battle of Los AngelesNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:46:32Fort Stevens and submarine gunfire limitsNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood3:01:48Could Japan have landed commandos from submarines?Q&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:54Bengal famine and wartime shipping limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...43:00Warning time and the German fleet problemNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:15:01Larger British carriers and Mediterranean consequencesQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:48:09Allied fleets avoid duplicating theater commitmentsNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:16:37Polish submarines and Operation WorekChapter
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...2:19:36Orzeł escapes Tallinn without chartsChapter
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:42:52How would 28-knot Queen Elizabeths change later battleships?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)2:37:57Unfinished Dutch fleet plans in the world warsNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak12:51Wartime sinkings, transport status, and historical judgmentQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak16:11Invasion, blockade, and the human cost of defeating JapanNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak18:09An 18-inch HMS Renown and Germany's surface fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak28:03Getting a 9.2-inch Royal Navy cruiser into wartime serviceQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:00:11How combat exposure changed from sail to global warQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:52:39Sea Wolves and catastrophic submarine sinkingsChapter
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:01:40British submarine tubes and ambush tacticsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:04:12Judging submarines by doctrine and operating theaterQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:09:18Type XXI U-boats against Allied escort depthQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:20:34Which admirals won the confidence of wartime leaders?Q&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:44:42Why large wartime merchant ships rarely survive as museumsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak3:10:44The most likely wartime fate of BéarnQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak3:37:42Why most high-scoring tank commanders emerged in the eastQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:33:12The Bismarck chase as a cross-section of the prewar Royal NavyNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class36:54HMS Mosquito under air attack at DunkirkNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class39:38HMS Locust's Dunkirk service, refit, and survivalNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class43:52Scorpion, Dragonfly, and Grasshopper lost in the Far EastNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class46:41Sloop capacity, anti-submarine cover, and Far East readinessNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class51:25HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen escapes disguised as an islandNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class55:43Singapore, command structure, and wartime decisionsNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:14:16Johan Maurits van Nassau in the defense of the NetherlandsNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:42:12Soviet armored river gunboatsChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)46:01Coalition government and long-term state capacityNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII52:47Mosquito at Dunkirk and coastal supportNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII58:29Singapore evacuation and Far East readinessNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:08:01Sloop shortfall and Royal Navy procurementNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:27:07Crete command planning and interservice breakdownNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:51:42Fairmile D dog boat design and productionChapter
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:34:21U.S. PGM speed problem and PT boat supportNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII3:00:59Converting submarine chasers during an ASW shortageNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:01:13Mass-produced drone escorts against U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:07:36Fuel stockpiles, Canada, and Atlantic tanker riskQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:16:54Why bombing Royal Navy fuel storage was difficultQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:38:14Unlimited British warship production against Italy and JapanQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts11:15A naval 4-inch gun in a British cruiser tankNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts12:44Empire logistics and American isolation costsQ&A
- The Story of the First Fleet (Founding of Australia)3:25:58Was the First Fleet mission a success?Q&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response14:00Blocking points could strengthen northern France without a second Maginot LineNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History52:16Why German leaders believed Enigma remained secureQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:23:21If Franco's Spain attacked Gibraltar and PortugalQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:15:05The 'sea in their blood' myth and wartime naval professionalismChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6512:11Soviet 1939 strength depends on logisticsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6516:53Allied nuclear leverage changes the Soviet counterfactualQ&A
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines37:48Why Liberty ships used triple-expansion enginesNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?57:49Why Bearn remained at Martinique in 1940Q&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?59:42Which ally might have supplied France with carriers?Q&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:06:49Bearn's long afterlife beyond carrier operationsNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:45:00French naval competence and government distrust in 1940Notable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class24:24Jervis Bay shows gun fit against merchant targetsQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions31:11Long Lance torpedoes may have finished damaged Japanese shipsQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:13:08German submarine output suffered under divided authorityQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:24:14Terrain and deployment decide whether tanks or guns dominateQ&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?18:10The recurring French command-and-control problemNotable Point
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course41:09Second World War commerce warfare spans every oceanNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain8:48Pigeon guidance depends on range and the weapon carrying itQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain14:34Visual-range pigeon guidance points toward European anti-tank warfareNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain15:28Pigeons, chickens, and dogs entered military systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain26:12The most expensive wartime weapon was a system, not one deviceQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain39:26Churchill combined decisive leadership with a risk of overcorrectionNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain2:27:43E-boats and R-boats were not the same German coastal craftNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:33:21A Harpoon mod enables repeatable Second World War scenariosQ&A
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late7:36Wartime production lock-in and the missing high-power engineNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late27:12Hovercraft just miss the amphibious warChapter
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late32:21The wartime hiatus behind the 1950s hovercraft boomNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind19:24HMS Aphis from the Danube to Mediterranean fire supportNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind20:07HMS Bee and the cost of one-for-one replacementNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind31:21HMS Cricket's air attack, write-off, and wreck off CyprusNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind37:19HMS Tarantula becomes a support ship and fleet flagshipNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind39:29HMS Moth is scuttled, recovered, and lost in Japanese serviceNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind40:29HMS Ladybird supports Bardia, Kastellorizo, and TobrukChapter
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind44:04HMS Gnat survives a U-79 torpedo off TobrukNotable Point
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind46:03Scrapped Insect-class hulls and the late Dragonfly programChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers32:31A 15,500-ton heavy cruiser against German raidersNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect37:03Baltimore and the fighting-cruiser culminationChapter
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...32:40A delayed European war could meet an alliance already fighting JapanQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers46:01When a naval-presence bluff is calledNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers52:43Too many gun calibers for a global warNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:42:35Deutschland-class raiders as a planning problemNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...35:19Horne commemorates the staff work behind a wartime navyNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...41:48Standley links naval leadership, diplomacy, and Vietnam serviceNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service38:31Athabaskan, Haida, and Channel destroyer fightingChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:32:12Haida's war record and preservationChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:45:34Maori at Cape Bon and under Malta's air siegeChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:55:47Mashona's loss after the Bismarck operationChapter
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:31:45Depth charges by total kills, Hedgehog by wartime effectQ&A
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.1:43:57India's missing railway and wartime survivabilityNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser24:12Neutrality Patrols and Iceland before Pearl HarborChapter
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser31:28Collisions and grounding in an Atlantic stormNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser32:28Rear Admiral Wilcox lost during Task Force 39's crossingChapter
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser36:28PQ 17 and the Arctic convoy heavy-cover dilemmaNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser38:22Wichita at Casablanca in Operation TorchNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser41:01Rennell Island and the danger of one-threat planningNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser43:32Wichita's later Pacific campaignsNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser44:14Surrender inspections, Magic Carpet, and reserveNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:52Why convoys needed Flower-class critical massChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:19:52From lanyard charges to K-gun attack patternsNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:36:22How Flower-class corvettes moved between naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...45:19Germany's submarine disadvantage in a 1938 warQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...52:57Czech defences and industry in a 1938 warNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:26:08Plan Kathleen and the absence of Irish government supportNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:46:42A Victorian rail link and wartime supplyQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?21:41C-class anti-aircraft cruisers keep a surface punchChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?32:18Keeping an alternate-history fleet inside evidence limitsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?34:02Tribal destroyers against Norway's dive bombersChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?40:01Heavy anti-aircraft fire breaks up an attackNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?46:06A common calibre makes wartime supply more resilientChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?48:54Tribals and C-class cruisers reinforce the MediterraneanNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?52:18Escort conversions and Operation ClaymoreChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?56:12Better fleet air defence invites a German countermeasureNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?59:19Force Z remains a contingent outcomeChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:07:22Damage instead of loss is a long-war advantageNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-653:25Why the Soviet Navy fought in restricted seasChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6516:20S-class submarines reveal industrial dependence and wartime inexperienceChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6527:37Risk aversion neutralized Black Sea Fleet superiorityNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6530:36Gorshkov's Black Sea amphibious apprenticeshipChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6534:44Baltic amphibious warfare served a deep land offensiveChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6538:25Gorshkov survived the risks that restrained other commandersNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-6539:35Arkhangelsk and the cost of supporting capital shipsNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:41:56Four fleet phases connect the wartime navy to global presenceChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?44:51Why 80 degrees matters against dive-bombersNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:06:37Layered air defence needs continuous coverageChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:04:18Better fleet AA would provoke enemy adaptationNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:07:41Force Z depends on carriers, fighters, and earlier lossesChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:43:13Wartime production freezes earlier development choicesChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?3:00:49Better guns cannot fix Crete or Malaya by themselvesQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?3:04:37Singapore's reservoir and delayed scorched earthNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat16:57No US entry in 1917 reshapes the interwar PacificQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat20:45Industrial preparation sets the pace of British rearmamentQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat47:30From First World War tank barges to the LSTQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat50:17Hitler's Secret Commandos on German midget submarinesChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:02:24The practical limits of a 12-inch 70-caliber gunQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:34:11Three-inch/50 guns need radar to transform Mediterranean air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:40:20The Soviet war effort without Lend-LeaseQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:56:40German rail logistics break down beyond MoscowQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:00:17Axis interservice friction weakened naval-air cooperationQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:35:54One bomb at Jutland and TarantoQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:50:47Type 45 Duncan gives the interwar Royal Navy an air-defense blueprintQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine14:21Jutland, Scapa Flow, and the missing fleet purposeChapter
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response31:06Admiral King and the limits of a multi-ocean fleetNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response42:02Rodney's 16-inch guns in the last battle of BismarckNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response7:40Why removing one Allied power rewrites the whole warNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books30:39How mines and command delay contained the Baltic FleetNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books35:53The Black Sea Fleet from Odessa to SevastopolNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:41:55Stalin's fleet plans depended on German supplyChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:59:09HMS Vanguard and the meaning of wartime priorityChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:22:41A Royal Navy ship as home, community, and weaponNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:38:05Bomber Command's death rate versus total loss rateQ&A
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships45:15Nelson and Rodney as wartime heavy hittersNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response7:10Tirpitz and the strategic value of a raider threatQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response10:03Was Tirpitz a fleet in being or a surface-raider threat?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:03:03Why Nelson and Rodney remained fleet insurance in World War IIChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:38:40Where did Nelson and Rodney serve late in the Second World War?Q&A
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....49:41The Arethusas' legacy in later British cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:03:18How Robert English might have shaped the postwar submarine serviceQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:05:39Lieutenant Edna Morrow aboard the 1943 crash flightNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:26:51Why a fleet of Dunkerques would have alarmed BritainQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:42:13Why collecting intelligence is only the first problemQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:45:24Why German cruiser plans, doctrine, and operations divergedNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:59:18Why there is no single best Second World War submarineQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:26:39Why the Rainbow class excelled at long-range submarine workQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:29:25Why French submarines left a limited wartime recordQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:35:09Why the Type VII must be judged by variantQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:00:57Two routes into Royal Navy destroyer operationsQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:11:17What HMS Victory did during the Second World WarQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)27:37Asama's three-war service ends in gunnery trainingChapter
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)28:18Tokiwa's second career as a minelayerChapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books40:11Wartime London bunkers connected to the UndergroundQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:05:38A Harry Bennett naval-history reading guideNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:18:09HMS London, QP15 and the pressure of Arctic convoy serviceNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:04:18Britain repeated the wartime seizure Article 17 was meant to stopNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:11:50Why Britain kept treaty restraints after Japan withdrewQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:30:23Could stronger carrier support have changed Singapore?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:49:35What sank the cruiser submarine Surcouf?Q&A
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?22:42Late construction left useful ships with almost no Italian wartime careerChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?27:30Twelve planned ships became four completions and two long-lived rebuildsChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?31:37Scipione Africano's radar-guided night action against British MTBsChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?34:43Minefields, evacuation duty, and Italy's sudden change of sidesChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?43:58Italy's resource shortage mattered more than the ships' braveryNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road53:33A modern 76 mm automatic gun would transform wartime air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:12:30P-38s could attempt the Doolittle Raid, but B-25s remain the better choiceQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:27:31Large chemical and biological arsenals did not guarantee wartime useNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:10:02Friendly-fire confusion preceded Lord Stonehaven's loss to an E-boatChapter
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:03:25Deterrence fails when an opponent keeps gambling that warnings are bluffsNotable Point
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 418:34The cruiser classes missing from headline battle historiesNotable Point
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:34:58Did Courageous and Glorious receive continuous flight decks?Q&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:39:20Why did Britain rarely mass its carriers early in the war?Q&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War15:28Panzer III and Matilda compete for best early-war tankQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War36:20The VT fuze was famous at the Bulge, not first used thereQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:26:30Early carriers belong to the pre-combat design eraNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:43:30A successful Market Garden opens a western race to BerlinQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War3:18:52Naval Eyewitnesses organizes war through lived experienceChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video37:30Why senior command needs more than combat specializationQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:00:16Why the fall of Singapore was a combined-operations blunderQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:19:26The Antwerp-before-Market-Garden counterfactualQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:19:45A Phoney War campaign against German waterways and industryQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War41:14Singapore, Honolulu, and deterrence of JapanChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War58:18If Japanese troops retreated from SingaporeQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:38:33Why Britain traded capital-ship work for escortsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:50:02Why Britain did not mount a Mosquito raid from a carrierQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:21:55Cunningham on Mediterranean air power and logisticsChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:24:49How air attack could disrupt the Suez Canal without destroying itChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:27:11The Inshore Squadron as the army's coastal logistics serviceChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:37:34A cross-Britain canal as wartime infrastructureNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response12:56How World War II layered air defense was meant to workNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 6433:41Why wartime chemical and biological stockpiles went unusedNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:33:07Bombers could free the fleet for the Far EastNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:34:53Satellites would transform wartime naval reconnaissanceQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations28:51A one-day modernization of the 1939 Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations39:16Modern cruise ships in a world-war convoy systemQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:50:06Could the Audacious class enter service in 1944?Q&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:05:50The Forgotten Dead and the purchase of a sunken ShermanChapter
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:24:15What counts as an old warship still in combat?Q&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video0:54How a loyal French fleet reshapes Allied strategyQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video41:48German naval infrastructure and the intended war timetableQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video50:15Why the French Navy might choose to fight onQ&A
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…2:16:05Why secondary armies disappear from public memoryNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers26:15Brooklyn escorts the American move into IcelandNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:21:45Mass production makes escort carriers the dominant US typeChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:24:36Essential wartime ships are hardest to justify in peaceChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:13:48From captured merchantman to HMS AudacityChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:09:19Escort carriers supplied most American flight decksNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations2:33:53How American CVE production shifted British carrier buildingNotable Point
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide45:08Adelaide supports Free French control of New CaledoniaChapter
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide46:48Adelaide intercepts the blockade runner RamsesChapter
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France6:01Using counterfactuals to test historical consequencesNotable Point
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France1:16:06The French fleet is the balance against ItalyChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)55:42Unproven weapons depend on the enemy behaving as expectedNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?12:38How the French-fleet counterfactual is boundedChapter
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:08:48Why Spain probably still stays out of the warNotable Point
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?2:10:22Would an Anglo-French atomic project end the war?Q&A
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace0:03The Northern Fleet grows from Russia's Arctic lifelineChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 350:05How a stronger Trans-Siberian Railway changes Arctic supplyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:03:49Finding usable histories of the Soviet Navy at warQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 32:10:05French North Africa and an early collapse of Italy's positionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 32:40:52Why wartime bombers missed even prominent targetsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4224:34Why HMCS Bonaventure had no wartime recordQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:01:12Why the old Mississippi-class ships were combat-obsoleteQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:05:31How Germany sought to exploit Dutch industryQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 228:37Prewar Tribal destroyers based in CanadaQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 238:17Why the Royal Navy did not abandon the Indian OceanQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:04:51Why British submarine successes faded from public memoryQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:14:23The most advanced battleship of World War IIQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:47:25Choosing one Royal Navy destroyer class for 1942Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:06:38If French gunfire destroyed Hood earlier in the warQ&A
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers48:26Tuscaloosa, Columbus, and the hazards of neutrality patrolChapter
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers1:05:41Vincennes carries French gold under a stretched neutralityNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out5:06Why Japanese torpedoes crippled US cruisersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out8:15Mountbatten pink as naval camouflageQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out15:00When the Royal Navy used foreign-built warshipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out34:41British shipbuilding in the two world warsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out37:39How Canberra and Bataan commemorated an allianceQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out42:54Royal Navy counterparts to Kamchatka's false alarmsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:08:30Why the Royal Navy could not send its battle fleet straight to the PacificQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:14:08Why Allied navies adapted faster during World War IINotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:24:40German occupation equipment sealed beneath JerseyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:10:04What extra Royal Navy carriers requireQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:22:10Why US surprise at Royal Navy biplanes is overstatedQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:24:37The Supermarine C.5 the Fleet Air Arm might have hadQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-404:18Why fleet fixes had to begin before the warQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:15:52British rearmament planned for a war in 1942, not 1939Notable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:20:26Why Axis battleships in Dublin would provoke invasionQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:33:33Britain's strategic logic for occupying IcelandQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:40:38Useful World War II roles for surviving pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..14:32Sweden debated its cruiser force while war closed inChapter
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..31:48Wartime lessons improved the cruisers but delayed completionNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:53The wartime coalition behind the United Nations nameNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading27:48Why German communications lessons did not carry into World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading46:22Graf Zeppelin was built but never completedNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:51:26Cruiser designs that served through both world warsQ&A
- Selborne Fisher Scheme: It's Conception, Creation, Implementation, Operation and Discontinuation40:15The Selborne generation commands in the Second World WarNotable Point
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches1:28:18Scheme graduates built the interwar and wartime NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:35:33A high-speed U-boat between wartime submarines and postwar SSKsQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:42:09Mers-el-Kebir and the problem of appearing strong without becoming another enemyNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:47:24Does the restraint comparison concern Mers-el-Kebir or Alexandria?Q&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again2:17:45HMS Repulse and the limits of doing everything rightNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19420:05Why minor navies had almost no options by 1942Chapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19429:14Conquest trapped Dutch and Polish naval forcesChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19420:00Why Axis naval options had narrowed by 1942Chapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19420:13The Allied naval crisis in January 1942Chapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194220:17The RCN became essential to the Battle of the AtlanticChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194220:53Why Canada belongs among the major Allied naviesNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National15:14Mediterranean duties and the hunt for Graf SpeeChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National24:03Industrial strength could not substitute for coherent national willChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19410:09Fixing Axis fleets without perfect hindsightChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19411:38Japan's countdown to an expected losing warChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19410:31What can still be fixed by January 1941?Chapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments0:25Why 1939 fleet planning cannot use 1945 hindsightChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War3:01:45Why fleet-reform scenarios stop at 1942Q&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times7:48The human cost of rebuilding the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:20:22Britain's financial weakness was more postwar than wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:20:52Japan led the Axis in naval construction capacityQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:21:14Civilian ferry pilots and possible carrier deliveriesQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:48:23Geography decides the fate of a Polish auxiliary carrierQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:09:35War accelerated British decolonisation without causing itQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:45:44A third Renown changes modernization and deployment choicesQ&A
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19400:03Minor navies after the European war beginsChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19400:00What naval reform can still achieve in January 1940Chapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19400:27The French Navy's worldwide commitments in January 1940Chapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19390:30What minor navies could still change in January 1939Chapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19390:20How to judge a navy without mythmakingChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19396:22Why famous weapons distort fleet historyNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19392:21How to judge Allied naval choices in January 1939Chapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.23:35Australian fuel stockpiles shortened wartime supply linesNotable Point
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books1:30:50Burma Victory 1944 and the forgotten Allied armyChapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books1:32:47The multinational Allied advance in Burma, 1944Notable Point
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books1:37:32Why Slim's Fourteenth Army is easily overlookedQ&A
- Ruse de guerre30:07Ghost armies and chaff spread the D-Day threatChapter
- Ruse de guerre31:40Dummy capital ships satisfy German fleet expectationsNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre38:05Flower-class sloops bridge Q-ships and escortsChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers (Soviet Navy)36:42Lazar Kaganovich and a transcontinental supply chainChapter
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:34:08How the myth of universal German equipment superiority spreadQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:47:48Hitler's miscalculation over war in 1939Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:14:56Did Italy have the world's largest submarine fleet in 1940?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:00:31Did the Etna-class light cruisers enter Italian service?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:27:21A curtailed world cruise keeps two cruisers near homeNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:30:02Why did Italian cruisers remain in service after the war?Q&A
- Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 214:32Luigi Cadorna from Calabria to Allied transport dutyChapter
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:25:08Why mines explain many missing submarinesQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:27:22The wrong lesson about light anti-aircraft weaponsQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:29:39Why the F-35B could fight wartime aircraftQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:32:43Could an attack helicopter fight wartime aircraft?Q&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:34:36Kriegsmarine and Japanese naval morale in 1945Q&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)41:45Interwar naval coordination magnified Britain's shock in 1940Notable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions34:55How little Germany knew about Pearl HarborQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)52:53Norway and Denmark drew different lessons from 1940Notable Point
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)13:17Why USS Concord deserved preservationQ&A
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)21:38Industrial capacity made Allied design learning possibleQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:46:01How wartime sloops became modern frigatesQ&A
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)35:16Reginald Drax from Blanche to convoy commodoreNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 224:33A reading list for US seaplane operationsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 234:29Why Royal Navy working uniforms changed little during wartimeQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:01:21War accelerates implementation more than inventionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:25:30Britain shifted wartime construction rather than stopping itQ&A
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))26:29Hector Boyes turned attaché work into intelligence accessChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))34:45Vera Laughton Mathews expanded the WRNS workforceChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))48:38Retirement was not a verdict of incompetenceChapter
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...29:46Alliance standardization versus technological diversityChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:26:09What a Spanish attack on Gibraltar might have meantQ&A
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:57:32Wartime expansion multiplied the demand for senior experienceNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:03:00A global naval war needs experienced commanders everywhereNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:18:28The limits of America's industrial lead timeQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels59:22Railway guns against destroyers in NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:22:00A Royal Navy reading guide to the Indian Ocean warQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:54:39Canadian sailors in combined operations at DieppeChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)28:26Why Hitler could not attack Gibraltar through SpainNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:11:07Could Bismarck have surrendered without being scuttled?Q&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:03:16What guns did wartime trawlers carry?Q&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)50:01Why a different treaty might separate the European and Pacific warsNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:59:08Why no treaty might widen the Allied industrial advantageQ&A
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)17:38Why factories and logistics decide prolonged warsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)15:26What Glorious and Courageous still offeredNotable Point
- Alex & Drach @ Haida (live)13:35Where Cossack's Altmark boarding party jumpedQ&A
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)17:13Foreign warship orders and a hypothetical British requisitionNotable Point
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)29:14HMS Challenger confirms Challenger DeepChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy27:35From lead lines to multibeam sonarChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:25:24How survey ships informed Flower-class merchant-hull thinkingQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy2:46:04Echo class turns seabed data into operational supportChapter
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)42:20Mass and manoeuvre in Second World War torpedo attacksNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)6:38HMCS Haida in combat and French coastal operationsChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:48:13Homing torpedoes emerged by the end of World War IIQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:02:39Submarine technology exchange needed more than plansNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:13:36Obsolete Whitehead torpedoes could remain lethalQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:14:13Raw sinking totals need a target-richness denominatorNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:48:36A harder Mers-el-Kébir strike changes risk more than politicsQ&A
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN25:45Canada's wartime navy helped sustain a global logistics warNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN31:30Why piracy did not surge during the world warsQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:25:33Canada's vast Battle of the Atlantic escort fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:33:08New Zealand at war and the Battle of the River PlateNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:51:15Why even an aggressor may start an unready warQ&A
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:15:47Warspite's Turkish visit shows how presence must fit its audienceNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature15:29Early warning could have opened a torpedo-protection refit windowQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature1:58:51Mers-el-Kébir as a grim fleet-denial decisionQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature2:02:02A midshipman's war told through repeated survivalNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature3:22:10Tank-gun standards changed radically between 1939 and 1942Notable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature3:28:34Tactical aircraft could stop tanks without destroying themNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:58:03Why avoiding Barbarossa would not solve Germany's warQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:15:13The D-class cruisers and their cancelled sistersChapter
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:20:50Where to start reading about the Second BEFQ&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:10:34Q&A: How did the Home Guard and Volkssturm differ?Q&A
- Largest Naval Battle Ever Fought? The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC)2:45:59Q&A: Why call the Renown class the ultimate battlecruisers?Q&A
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)1:01County cruisers caught between two naval erasChapter
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)36:34Dorsetshire and Cornwall in the Indian Ocean raidChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)47:55Limited naval impact if Sweden joined the AxisQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)54:55Finland's battlefield success and strategic defeat against the Soviet UnionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)56:22Japanese resistance to Soviet landings in the Kuril IslandsQ&A
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)38:16Deferred maintenance made wartime defence more expensiveNotable Point
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)41:48Why U-47 was able to attack Royal Oak twiceNotable Point
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)46:45Scapa Flow's Arctic convoy covering forceNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future37:29Which major Royal Navy wrecks lie at Scapa Flow?Q&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:29:07What did American battleships learn from Grand Fleet gunnery?Q&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:30:39How the Grand Fleet tried to sustain morale at Scapa FlowQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:57:54Interwar neglect leaves Scapa Flow open againNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:02:42Why the loss of HMS Royal Oak matteredChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:13:51U-47 turns a neglected harbor into a disasterChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:27:47Why Royal Oak's exact wartime complement is difficult to pin downQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:47:29How severe early damage may have helped HMS Belfast surviveQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...42:31Lord Cork as a failed wartime naval leaderQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:30:20Beer, ice cream, and Allied naval logisticsQ&A
- Sieges of Malta: Patreon 51 (Long Patrol)48:18The World War II siege's human and material costChapter
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:16:27Malta's World War II siegeChapter
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:19:41Valletta's war ruins as public memoryNotable Point
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:35:11Could Malta have been better fortified before World War II?Q&A
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)25:00Force X, internment, and return to Allied serviceChapter
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions11:45Hedgehog versus Squid anti-submarine weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions31:04How the Fleet Air Arm adapted to Lend-LeaseQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions1:01:53Fairey Spearfish and the Malta-class carriersQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions1:10:54The rapid contest to improve torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions1:47:40A concise guide to Atlantic and Mediterranean naval battlesNotable Point
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:49:04Britain and the Commonwealth in Operation DownfallQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:54:24Satellite surveillance in the Second World WarQ&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?2:11:55Ocean liners as wartime troop transportsQ&A
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)20:45Leipzig's pre-war Atlantic task-force rehearsalChapter
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)22:33Illegal salvage erased Exeter's wreckNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)24:10Exeter under Graf Spee's fire at the River PlateChapter
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)27:58Exeter arrived too late to reinforce Force ZNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)29:02ABDA placed Exeter against full-sized Japanese cruisersChapter
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)30:38York's wreck remained at Suda Bay for a decadeNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)36:30Explosive motorboats disabled York at Suda BayNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)39:29Taranto's limits shaped the risk at Suda BayNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet16:55Why the final planned Tribal-class ships disappearedQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet35:16Why Jean Bart took until 1949 to completeQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet46:35What ABDA needed to become a credible fleetQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet57:20Why Spanish entry into the Axis would add wrecks, not sea powerQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:03:17Why the Royal Navy's Mark IV torpedo could still fightQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:27:32Seizing or relocating the French fleet after 1940Q&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:47:08How to assess battleships sunk by aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:58:45Why battlecruisers vanish from popular Second World War historyQ&A
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)10:40The 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion's equipment and command turmoilChapter
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)14:03The 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion and segregated serviceChapter
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)27:07Cargo liners, convoy losses, and the human cost of commerce warChapter
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)29:28Merchant-shipping loss and the limits of family memoryNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)34:49Bathurst corvettes and hydrography as naval logisticsNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:15:41Destroyer doctrine outran prewar fleet readinessNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:57:49Naval supremacy can survive serious ship lossesNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion20:29Why surface raiding needs numbersNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion34:48Battlecruiser value depends on the theaterNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion37:27Treaty-induced neglect and wartime rearmamentChapter
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion41:41Postwar shock and the treaty-timing dilemmaNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)0:21Why Argentina's wartime politics resist simple hindsightNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)4:12The narrow window for a British requisitionNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)16:32The strategic value of a long-legged small cruiserNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)21:33Why Britain preferred a neutral food supplierChapter
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)22:56Most neutrality arguments were not pro-AxisNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)23:47Geography made Axis alignment strategically untenableNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)17:03Using camouflage books with careQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:05:55A reading route into Britain's Far East warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:16:42Why the RAF's fleet-bombing opportunity disappearedQ&A
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)15:00How pre-dreadnought habits outlasted the typeNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)30:47What flotilla numbers conceal about changing missionsNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)24:40Could a small Japanese strike have changed Operation Tan No. 2?Q&A
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)55:26The unrealized Francesco Caracciolo carrier conversionNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships3:30:28Why were U.S. submarine commanders replaced in wartime?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?9:10Would war in the Pacific come before war in Europe?Q&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue30:31How an escort carrier's air group follows its missionQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue52:08How one nuclear attack submarine would affect different wartime naviesQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:33:57Zigzagging as a practical wartime command habitNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:39:42Lord Cork and the avoidable failure in NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:52:02Convoy merchant ships were protected targets, not baitQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:57:58How a modern warship would attack an Age of Sail fleetQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:47:30Operation Sea Lion depended on captured combat tractorsNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:30:54Mobilization separated Sweden's deterrence from Norway's collapseNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:36:28An annotated bibliography as a map of Royal Navy scholarshipChapter
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:53:51Armoured carriers against Japanese air attackQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:34:06Royal Navy propellant remained improved corditeQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:37:24Could navies again reach Second World War scale?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:47:51Could modern forces return to mass mobilization?Q&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World15:08Fallschirmjager strengths and limits on CreteQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World18:46Turkey as a route into the Soviet warQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:56:09Why Hood's loss could not remain secretQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:04:30Why Operation Mincemeat worked and would be harder nowQ&A
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)8:55Dorsetshire in Force A and the Indian Ocean raidChapter
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)17:20Dorsetshire's anti-raider work from Graf Spee to PythonChapter
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)19:28Wakama and the Pan-American Security ZoneNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)24:29Dorsetshire's Hipper hunt and Halifax-to-Basra troop convoyChapter
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)31:35How damage and repair led to Norfolk's early radar fitNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)32:29Norfolk's radar, Bismarck shadowing, and Arctic convoy dutyChapter
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)19:19Lake-class cutters as wartime escortsChapter
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)22:01Lulworth's unusually broad anti-submarine recordNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment52:53Coast Guard wartime service from U-boats to NormandyChapter
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment57:40Lake-class cutters as Atlantic convoy escortsNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:11:11Did the Royal Navy capture German fast attack craft?Q&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:40:43Treasury-class cutters: range adapted to the Coast Guard missionNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:46:07USCGC Campbell's U-boat ramming and its screen portrayalQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:55:41Why the Italian Navy posed the greater wartime threatQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:13:04Chemical stockpiles and reciprocal deterrence in World War IIQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:18:04Royal Indian Navy combat in the Second World WarQ&A
- An Introduction to US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment (Long Patrol)9:40War expands the Coast Guard's regulatory machineryNotable Point
- An Introduction to US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment (Long Patrol)10:01Convoy warfare and a cutter's combat roleNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)31:34Air combat formations and the return of massNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)23:01Floating-dock experience points toward Mulberry harborsNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)32:54Bermuda's dock became a long-lived workhorseNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books38:21The Isle of Man's concentration of Royal Navy captainsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:10:11Why better commanders cannot erase industrial limitsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:23:26How wartime logistics exposed India's infrastructure weaknessNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:30:33Why Britain occupied Iceland after Germany took NorwayQ&A
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)27:31Repulse beyond the loss of Force ZNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney49:37Q&A: were British warships cheaper to build?Q&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney1:42:33Q&A: how long would Repulse's reconstruction take?Q&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:06:31Repulse hunting raiders before Force ZChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:12:51Repulse, Force Z, and the missing carrierChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:16:19Renown's long Second World War serviceChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:57:48Nelson as a scarce heavy striking forceChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:28:38Rodney's decisive fire against BismarckChapter
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...35:29A late-war Arctic camouflage scheme for destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...44:57Why late-war upgrades mattered more than a one-for-one ship swapQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:02:46Royal Navy workhorses beyond the famous classesQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:28:22When torpedoes became practical anti-submarine weaponsQ&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books13:29Fleet Air Arm operations and usable source notesChapter
- Some Sunday Naval Books18:05Why the Swordfish remained useful at nightNotable Point
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)39:19Why the Royal Navy limited more Tribal-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:27:18The nineteenth-century crew-health lesson still mattered in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:22:20What different warning times could change at Pearl HarborQ&A
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)24:48Devonshire joined the response to Rawalpindi's lossNotable Point
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)25:40Devonshire's Norwegian evacuation missionChapter
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)52:11Sussex's damage, refit, and return to serviceChapter
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)56:00Sussex at Singapore's 1945 surrenderNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)26:13Postwar stagnation in British shipyardsChapter
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions16:18Why Captain-class escorts are frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions27:02Why Japan's ambassador could not warn Washington about Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:28:22Royal Navy admirals still lacking ship names in 2022Q&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:30:24The contingency if Britain fell in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:12:53The continuity of naval boarding weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:26:02Judging Neville Chamberlain before and after MunichQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:08:00If Britain had retained HeligolandQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:32:26Could Canada have become a postwar shipbuilding giant?Q&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:46:31Why Britain avoided a Second World War repair-yard shortageQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:57:29Repair capacity as wartime force generationChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:04:07Why fast battleships and carriers displaced the battlecruiserQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:37:58Japan's fleet lacked enough mobile repair capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:51:42British plans to mine the Kiel CanalQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"3:18:03Air-attack lessons beyond the successful hitQ&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:49:42Q&A: What if the Soviets recovered Wrangel's fleet?Q&A
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)31:44War restores Pluton to her original missionNotable Point
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)32:48The Casablanca mine explosionChapter
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)38:19The wartime value Pluton never deliveredChapter
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru49:13A treaty fleet built to the two-power standardQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:05:32How surviving carriers could strengthen the Far East FleetQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:18:16Three warnings for the Royal Navy before three warsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:23:39If the United States enters the European war in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:32:39When light cruisers made sense as destroyer leadersQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:35:52Why infantry drove the scale of US wartime mobilisationNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:48:28Fleet Air Arm Corsairs and Lend-Lease disposalQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:32:05Where HMS Incomparable might serve in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:05:23Bismarck and the air component of sea controlQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)39:28Deterrence means making a raider payNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:18:50Why did cruisers carry depth charges?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:16:59Did battlecruiser losses expose British cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:13:20Conscription, volunteers, and wartime naval officersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:44:25Industrial timetables, Hitler's gambles, and the early warNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:02:45Why escort carriers mattered beyond convoy air coverQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:09:47Why strategic-bombing production claims need cautionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:25:07Naval intelligence without a quick Enigma breakQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:50:44A surviving Titanic as a wartime troop transportQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:40:17Why destroyers charge larger warshipsNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:03:48Were the Abdiels the fastest large pre-1950 warships?Q&A
- County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued21:03Suffolk’s radar shadow of BismarckChapter
- County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued44:15Berwick’s convoy defence against Admiral HipperChapter
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered57:36Why a diving bomb struggled to replace the torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:11:05Why coast batteries could mix unlike heavy gunsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:12:09Block building as dispersed wartime ship productionQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:28:50The strongest prewar carrier designs for World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:31:00Welding's gradual place in British warship constructionQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:13:42Why the unrotated projectile was a failed ship weaponQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:31:48Why the torpedo-gunboat concept needed time to matureQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:32:25The Alaska class needed an earlier service dateQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:35:16The Altmark incident as a close-quarters naval actionQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:55:41The Atlanta class as a Second World War Burke analogueQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:27:12The overlooked U-class submarines and Hunt-class escortsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:49:15Why British and American carrier losses had different effectsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:58:22How the blockade cut Germany out of global tradeQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered4:00:00Royal Navy submarines inside the BalticQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)31:17Can a destroyer disrupt a torpedo with its bow wave?Q&A
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)18:02HMS Abdiel's Mediterranean wartime serviceChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)22:12Latona as a high-speed transportNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)25:05Manxman and the changing value of the fast minelayerChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)29:07Welshman, Malta runs, and the limits of speedChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)34:18Ariadne from Norway to the PacificNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:01:27Admiral Tom Phillips went down with Prince of WalesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:03:08Chamberlain's reputation suffers beside Churchill's certaintyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:11:00Irish participation and Atlantic air powerQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:21:24Irish air training trades weather for shorter logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:26:10Japanese inter-service cooperation as production powerQ&A
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 957:35Sustained missions require more hulls than a surgeNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 922:09Could a Gorgon-class monitor have changed Narvik?Notable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 929:08Erebus class: naval gunfire support across two warsChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)16:10Interwar replacement plans sustained a large wartime submarine armNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)43:10The escort programme was built for a later warNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...20:55HMS Hood, prestige, and the risks of deterrent imageQ&A
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:18:24Turning starshell into concealment in the ChannelNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 80:03Monitors did not end with the American Civil WarNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 85:55Why the Second World War needed fewer monitorsChapter
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 818:08From Mediterranean operations to post-war serviceNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 829:48Monitors in a more mobile warNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 830:42Why old monitor plans cannot be lifted into a new warNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:09:01Type 79 radar extended night awareness before the warChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:37:16Radar retrofit built on years of testingQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?57:46Why two early carrier losses constrained every refitNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:06:51Courageous and the limits of anti-submarine exercisesChapter
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:13:28How exercise incentives concealed wartime riskNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:13:13Why two carriers create outsized strategic effectsChapter
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:25:50A Polish carrier would probably be built abroad and survive 1939Q&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:28:24Would saving two carriers shorten the war?Q&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?3:01:48How earlier victories could concentrate the Eastern FleetChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived4:26From Tribal combat losses to the Battle and Daring classesChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived7:18Destroyer design and operations reading pathsNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?0:35Pearl Harbor beyond one doctrineChapter
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:41:31Why publish Modern Naval Strategy during a world war?Notable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov3:00:08Roskill on revising sea-power historyChapter
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov3:13:19Why Britain occupied Iceland despite doubts about a German invasionQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:18:42Douhet and the postwar case for attacking civiliansQ&A
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)1:20:10Q&A: proxy forces and a balanced British ArmyQ&A
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol27:37Wright's command temperament and the Port Chicago comparisonNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol43:30Why a destroyer class carried Mahan's nameNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat43:04Why the Sea Fury offers practical wartime overmatchQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat2:53:03Battle on the Breeze and the British Pacific FleetChapter
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat4:18:43War Behind Enemy Lines on special forces and strategyChapter
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat4:22:20Why resistance movements need conventional supportNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat4:24:50Early commandos, scarce landing craft, and political connectionsNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:54:12What if the Royal Navy had built three Unicorns?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:03:55When did purpose-built repair ships become common?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:14:01Which naval aircraft were hardest to maintain?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:15:11What if HMS Unicorn had accompanied Force Z?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...3:05:03Why Norway mattered to the Atlantic warNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol27:01Captain Edward Kennedy's return to commandChapter
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol52:34How battle damage stopped Rawalpindi's resistanceChapter
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol53:53Rawalpindi as an overlooked first naval actionNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol56:58Remembering the crew as well as the captainNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions22:58Why oil-bearing wartime wrecks remain hazardousQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:23:49The Hellcat as a favourite all-round wartime fighterQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:08:22How rationing changed access to food across income levelsQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:37:31Comparing World War II destroyers across naviesChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:47:40Why Allied intelligence could not simply trust CanarisQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:59:11Why 'Britain stood alone' distorts wartime capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:18:48Moving Britain to test climate and invasion geographyQ&A
- Sherman's March to the Sea1:20:39When military activity substitutes for achievementNotable Point
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?20:03The case for a heavier last-ditch defenceNotable Point
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?22:40Commonwealth fleets, bases and the 1930s comparisonChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?27:55How historic operating areas still shape Commonwealth escortsNotable Point
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?50:37Ammunition exhaustion from the age of sail to CreteNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...18:38A modern frigate with Second World War cruiser displacementNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:08:01Australia's Second World War cruiser force and long distancesChapter
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:18:44Canada's Second World War navy grew around escort warfareChapter
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:31:29The City name links very different wartime and modern shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:36:44Hunter and CSC as modern all-round Tribal-type escortsChapter
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:09:06How a Soviet battleship could reshape German deploymentsNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:58:51The Regia Marina near its peak in 1940Q&A
- WW2 in the Mediterranean up until November 1940: p2 Taranto Long Patrol0:16Italy enters a Mediterranean reshaped by France’s collapseChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat31:07A rich U-boat history that needs its counterpartChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat45:42Scharnhorst and Gneisenau over BismarckQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat47:57A broad guide to the Royal Navy's warChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:09:54Japanese American internment and changing terminologyQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:36:35Hetzer as history and modelling referenceChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:51:02American tanks through design, production and combatChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:58:13Two books on naval aviation's wartime evolutionChapter
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:10:05A surviving pre-dreadnought still deters raidersQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat1:31:51Putting Bismarck's reputation in contextQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:23:07Favourite World War II carriers and why stories matterQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:43:04Why the Royal Navy's late-war manpower problem differed from the Army'sQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:57:56Why the German Norwegian campaign depended on luckNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:12:16Britain's war with Finland produced little naval actionQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat4:33:36Quisling's failed coup strengthened Norwegian resistanceNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore43:50Logistics defined the Mediterranean and CaucasusNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:55:21RFA loss totals depend on ship statusQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore1:57:48The fast-oiler force expanded during the warQ&A
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol0:41The problem with judging 1939 by 1944Chapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol9:04Compare replenishment systems at the same dateNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol29:48War arrived before the planned industrial buildupNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol46:43War redirected the construction programChapter
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol49:49Allied navies learned logistics from one anotherNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol54:00Adaptation rather than predictionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:31:52Trafalgar's myth and later battle expectationsChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)4:05:48When did Britain stop using armed merchant cruisers?Q&A
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders11:08Promotion through the coloursChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)45:31Why a searchlight rarely blinded a fast aircraft into crashingQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:14:37Electrical power as a hidden naval advantage before World War IIQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:15:18When did boarding become impractical?Q&A
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 819:29Terror's changing secondary armamentNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 830:14Terror's fire support in Operation CompassChapter
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 834:42Terror's final fight off BenghaziChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)40:04Philip Vian's rapid rise during World War IIQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)46:03Early U.S. destroyer performance was also a command problemQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)58:01Why Churchill was the practical 1940 choiceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:19:41Why Lord Halifax was a weak alternative to Churchill in 1940Notable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:22:27Alan Brooke's memoir claims need source criticismQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:06:36How the Essex programme expanded after Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:13:22How the Doolittle Raid gave USS Shangri-La its nameNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:38:33The Ki-43 Hayabusa as Japan's standout army fighterQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:41:39ABDA's enduring command-and-control lessonQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:55:11R-class battleships versus Italy's rebuilt veteransQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)4:46:47Why British submarines receive less World War II attentionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)4:49:54Surface raiding versus enforcing a blockadeQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:08:32Translating Napoleonic fleets into World War II warshipsQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…30:13USS Texas and a battleship's staying powerNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…51:14Queen Elizabeth class: fast battleships with strategic leverageChapter
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:24:52Why Renown edges Hood as a favourite battlecruiserChapter
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:31:42North Carolina class as all-round World War II warshipsNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:42:20Renown's encounter with Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:49:13Japanese planning for a Royal Navy tied down in EuropeNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:56:53Tennessee class as stalwart World War II warshipsNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:10:54Naval readiness timetables before the Second World WarNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:15:10Warspite as the overall favourite capital shipChapter
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...53:57Where Canadian Queen Elizabeths might fightQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:08:39Canadian battleships could reduce US reinforcement needsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:30:12Incomparable's extreme range as benefit and burdenQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:59:55Lexington battlecruisers in a Second World War roleQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)9:20Why Britain triggered both ends of the battleship eraQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)1:31:22Why Royal Oak's loss obscured the upgraded R classQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)1:55:02How far British battleships ranged in the Second World WarQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)2:12:50Bismarck and the myth of effortless German superiorityQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/416:35Could Romania have reshaped the Black Sea war?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 4/419:00Why study naval chiefs of staff?Chapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/40:31Dönitz, war crimes, and command responsibilityQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/42:33Victors' justice and the limits of NurembergQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/410:33Market Garden's narrow corridor and missing supportNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/417:34What made a navy ready for war in 1939?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/423:01A Biber attack on Antwerp's locksNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/431:55Percy Walker Nelles and Canada's wartime navyQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/414:41Why a hidden plot behind Rudolf Hess's flight is unnecessaryQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/428:18Why the Regia Marina was Britain's strategically awkward opponentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/432:30Nagano and Japan's recognized but unaddressed limitsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/425:07Why German naval rank equivalences are not straightforwardQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/427:02Japanese interservice rivalry and the neglected logistics baseQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/428:53Empire, capital, and Japan’s strategic assumptionsQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/440:45More Yamatos or a stronger maritime industry?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/445:30The Sino-Japanese War and readiness for 1941Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli6:28Resignation over fleet cuts and opposition to Fascist alignmentNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli20:29The Regia Marina as a Mediterranean strategic fulcrumChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai0:40Hirohito's trust in an anti-war admiralChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai8:20A premiership opposed to the Tripartite PactChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai10:15The navy backs Yonai's wartime recallNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai15:18Why Yonai doubted war with Britain and AmericaNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai20:31A peace-seeking admiral and a contested legacyNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:09:19Why a wartime Atlantic round trip could take two monthsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:13:50Recovering the Italian Navy's wartime reputationChapter
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:29:50What the surviving record can say about Japanese naval radarQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:31:13Why Italy's war mattered even when its forces struggledNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:44:03War accelerates adoption more reliably than inventionQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:52:30Dönitz's control makes ignorance of U-boat forced labor implausibleQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:38:44How an Allied Italy would transform the MediterraneanQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:31:42War and veterans helped shape the NHS as a universal serviceQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa8:47Conserving the fleet and trying to improve convoysChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P10/12: Koshirō Oikawa10:15Army extremism and pressure from junior officersNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada8:16Intrigue, command, and Japan's naval reversesChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada9:21Tojo, Shimada, and failed wartime coordinationNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada11:05Concentrated command and Shimada's personal responsibilityNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P9/14: Shigetarō Shimada13:01Conviction, parole, and a promotion Hirohito refusedChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19390:23A reference guide to the world's merchant fleets in 1939Chapter
- A Book or Two to Review (33): The World's Merchant Fleets 19398:00Tracing wartime merchant losses by nation and causeChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten3:05Division command in the Mediterranean warNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten3:36Keeping the fleet from scuttling in 1943Chapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P8/14: Raffaele de Courten5:54Competence and political leadership in the Regia MarinaNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?4:26Canaris, German patriotism, and moral limitsNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?16:37Historical judgement beneath simple good-and-evil labelsNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?23:28Nuremberg as justice and a new international orderNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?26:38Patton's hard command style still had limitsNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?37:35Were the atomic attacks war crimes?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:12:52A pilot pipeline designed for one short warQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:13:56Were German and Japanese naval chiefs surprised by war?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:28:38Axis admirals entered the war with different expectationsQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:39:19Was Canaris a British double agent?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:45:55Riccardi replaced Cavagnari without transforming the fleetNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:34:42Axis planning underestimated how quickly the Allies adaptedNotable Point
- 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
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:48:45Dönitz kept sending U-boats out in 1945Notable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:59:29What were Germany's and Japan's best naval decisions?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:11:52Yonai's case against war with Britain and AmericaChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany0:20A compact, well-illustrated route into the naval warNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany2:19A Royal Navy-centred survey of the warChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany6:00The operational scale behind familiar battlesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany16:17A fast, usable introduction to the naval warChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz0:02Dönitz's unusual place in the Nazi collapseChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz7:11Family losses at sea and the Nuremberg verdictNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (31):18:53Canaris amid atrocity reports and military collapseChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 19409:33Why Germany's invasion of Norway was a gambleNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194011:04Norway's slow mobilisation beside Denmark's rapid collapseNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194016:33Lord Cork's command problem as the campaign deterioratesNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi0:37Riccardi enters after a chief judged unfit for commandNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi1:37Riccardi's unusually broad wartime authorityChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi10:35Dodecanese commanders choose resistanceChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P5/14: Arturo Riccardi16:52Capable admirals could not overcome a poor strategic handNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris1:36Canaris's Spanish mission and the Franco connectionNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris5:50MI6 contacts and peace terms without HitlerNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P4/14: Wilhelm Canaris6:46The intelligence foundation beneath BlitzkriegNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)58:54AIP numbers versus Elektroboot performanceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:48:01Using Star Trek to compare Second World War fleet culturesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)4:14:09Which Second World War ships could still serveQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)4:25:58Why restoring every Second World War fleet would overwhelm modern yardsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)4:28:40The personnel problem behind a restored wartime fleetQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out2:40A battleship built to meet another battleshipNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari24:36Italian command turnover and the aviation counterfactualNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari28:47Why Axis naval chiefs need comparisonNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory0:34Merchant hulls became mobile repair capacityChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory10:33Wartime output scaled designs already under developmentChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory11:26Repair ships were a wartime programme in their own rightChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:19:02Was giving up Heligoland good strategy for Britain?Q&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:32:20Empire without adequate defensive preparationNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:05:35Why the Swordfish remained a dangerous ship killerNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:43:50Maintenance ships reveal strategic reachChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:05:33A wartime myth about Greek merchant shipsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:08:53If naval treaties had abolished submarinesQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different17:20Industrial capacity changed the carrier-survivability calculusNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different18:50From carrier conversions to fleet programmesChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder0:32Why Raeder begins the Axis naval chiefs seriesChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder15:25A navy planned for later war forced into the Norway gambleNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder17:09A decade to prepare the KriegsmarineChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder25:13Why the Kriegsmarine entered war least readyNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties0:40Treaty limits and the Nelson-class choiceChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties5:11Admiral-class carriers and a global rapid-reaction forceNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties16:58Turbine-class losses and the air threatNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties19:10Why destroyers needed room to growNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties21:23Concentrated fleet doctrine versus distributed warNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties23:17Admiral Henderson's procurement authorityChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea16:39Why interwar choices look clearer in hindsightNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (27): The Tiger from Poznan0:21A Tiger memoir and the production questionChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (27): The Tiger from Poznan1:49Why Poznań and tank-book traditions repay attentionNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (27): The Tiger from Poznan14:34Combat testimony and the regimes behind the warNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)4:21Who could replace Churchill in 1943?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)11:52How Commonwealth sloops could reshape Far East defenceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)19:59Could two major Allied powers still defeat Germany?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)43:53ABDA's command problem and the value of a visible Allied forceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:33:28Why wartime anti-aircraft fits varied ship by shipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:36:29The US ship the Royal Navy most needed in 1941Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:44:32How a carrier could change Force Z's optionsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:45:36Carrier warfare moves naval battle beyond visual rangeQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers9:18The 9.2-inch cruiser as a convoy-escort alternativeNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers11:07Cruisers as a missing link in the Second World WarChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral0:26Lord Keyes as a Far East command alternativeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (23): Rome's Great Eastern War15:36Understand the enemy and yourselfNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper3:05:16Allied invasions that denied bases to the AxisQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)49:48Germany without capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:02:02A German carrier war in the North SeaQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:02:24A larger Indian National Army commitmentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:05:15Why Japan could not bypass the United StatesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:50:18An Anglo-Japanese alliance surviving into World War IIQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:53:50The Soviet fleet in a war delayed to 1942Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:33:23How Anglo-Japanese treaty clauses redirect a world warQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response3:03Mass production needs combat contextQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response25:31Torpedo reliability was not only a German problemQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books59:37African sailors and local troops in British naval serviceQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books1:05:12The Old Gang's trench-breaking TOG tanksChapter
- Bruships 55: New Books3:14:31The Home Guard as a brake on Sea LionQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:25:32Why no Home Guard unit has a decisive battle recordQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:28:26Tactical performance and strategic defeat in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:35:34Competing demands for experienced British formationsNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:53:07Hitler's declaration and America's path to EuropeQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books3:58:40Mechanized for war, but still learning how to use armourNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:01:25Sea Lion and the Royal Navy's maritime barrierQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books5:04:41Britain's investment in wartime special operationsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response2:30German shipbuilding and Royal Navy prioritiesQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response5:20The Atlantic blockade as Germany's best bad optionQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response7:36Merchant Navy casualties and manpowerQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response20:34Strategic costs of a submarine-only German fleetQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response35:41Commerce raiding and its strategic limitsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response37:16Squid and Hedgehog in the late-war escort fleetQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response38:41Coastal convoys around BritainQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response41:01Merchant seamen's pay and the reserve poolQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response47:19A Baltic fleet and German resource prioritiesQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:17Japanese hybrid warships as a naval aviation problemChapter
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW25:47Why Japanese preparations complicate a simple superiority narrativeNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW210:46Chitose and Chiyoda show the logic of convertible seaplane tendersNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW223:26Treaty gray areas and planned escort-carrier conversionsChapter
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW229:50Industrial depth set the limits of Japanese carrier plansChapter
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW233:00Factional rivalry and professional competence coexisted in JapanQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW236:31Akitsu Maru and army amphibious aviationNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW250:36Kaiyo as a useful liner-to-escort-carrier conversionNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW258:46Ryuho shows the difference between conversion intent and carrier qualityNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:02:05Why submarines experimented with gyroglider scoutsQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:10:45Shimane Maru and tanker conversions for anti-submarine air coverNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:21:47Type XXIII U-boats reached combat too late to shape the warNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:24:29Yamashio Maru and the Army's small anti-submarine carriersNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:34:17Kumano Maru combined landing craft with a take-off-only deckNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:42:48The Unryu class was Japan's fleet-carrier mass-production designChapter
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:02:24Political skill did not make Hitler a sound wartime strategistQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:04:32Why delaying war could deepen Germany's industrial disadvantageNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:20:37Ise and Hyuga were rebuilt for decisive-battle strike powerChapter
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:24:02The 70-meter deck and catapults compromised both halves of the hybridNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:34:50Were the Ise-class hybrid conversions worth the cost?Q&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:43:50Could unconverted Ise-class battleships have served elsewhere?Q&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:51:24Plans fail when they assume the enemy will repeat your choicesNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:57:11The hybrid-carrier idea was not uniquely JapaneseQ&A
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live0:21Japanese hybrid ships and the industrial mismatchChapter
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live1:54Ise and Hyuga before the carrier conversionNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live8:31Why the Ise and Hyuga hybrid conversion fell shortChapter
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live10:55The reconnaissance-carrier concept and a more complete conversionNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live14:21Chitose-class seaplane tenders as the better conversion pathNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live16:19Prewar seaplane tenders as carrier-reserve preparationChapter
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live20:31Strategic blind spots about Western industrial powerNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live22:25Hybrid carriers at Cape Engano as sacrificial decoysNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol2:33The 10-year rule and an unexpectedly early warNotable Point
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol33:11Casualties, claims, and Japanese recordsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)7:07Pedestal convoy and Italian cruiser limitsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)8:33Force Z with an armoured carrierQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)9:45If Britain received the entire US NavyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)12:20Lettered forces and convoy covering groupsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)18:47A British North America enters both world wars earlyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)27:13If ABDA avoided the Battle of the Java SeaQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)30:29Submarine accidents and German operational riskQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)32:01Churchill's place in Britain's 1940 leadershipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)33:22Hovercraft as a specialist World War II landing toolQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)45:20Swedish intervention during the invasion of NorwayQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)48:10War accelerates implementation more than inventionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)53:05Why Bismarck's last action has no single battle nameQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)53:42A neutral Netherlands complicates the North Sea warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)57:21Why Sweden did not enter the Norwegian campaignQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:11:29German U-boat standardization and innovationQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:13:01Why no army simply had the best artilleryNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:16:11Churchill as a sponsor of special forcesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:16:33Delaying America's war with GermanyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:21:15If Germany lost the Norwegian campaignQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:27:30Brazil's pro-British wartime alignmentNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:29:08Naval consequences of Russian neutralityQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:33:27A stronger Finnish Navy before the Winter WarQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:34:01If the French fleet continued the warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:41:04Desert-war tanks in France in 1940Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:55:17Why Britain struggled to rotate Pacific commandersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:06:20World War II without a two-ocean US NavyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:31:07Commanding the Norwegian campaign differentlyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:32:36Prince of Wales and Repulse as ABDA's command coreQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:58:49The hunt for Deutschland before she became LutzowQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:02:04Why the Alaska class arrived too lateQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:07:23World War II without aircraft carriersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:11:22Why pushing the Axis home would not end the warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:26:57ABDA's narrow path to success in the Java SeaQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:33:57If the Soviet Union joined the AxisQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:34:36The resource logic of Japan's northern strategyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:38:48A 1937 crash program for British cruisers and carriersQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/723:02Human cost and the Atlantic's reputationNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/723:57Escort pool and Operation TorchNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz0:06Why Hunting Tirpitz is useful for source-led naval historyChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz3:03X-craft passage planning for the Tirpitz attackNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz4:09Tow failures and navigation errors before the attackNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz6:48X9 is lost during the passage to NorwayNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz9:03X8's charge failures force her crew to scuttle the craftNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz11:10Submarines as high-value but fragile wartime assetsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz13:20Why human torpedoes were simpler than X-craftNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (21): Hunting Tirpitz14:16X-craft as a substitute for weapons Britain did not yet haveNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...4:04Channel patrols and the limits of tidy war planningQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...23:51The Maginot Line depended on Belgium and Allied timingChapter
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...32:03The Polish guarantee and the limits of strategic reachQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...38:42Defense in depth beyond the Maginot Line's strong sectorQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...43:10French air power, radios, and doctrine in 1940Notable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...49:37Static divisions were not a ready-made mobile reserveNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...53:29Road engineering made the Ardennes advance possible but fragileNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...54:58Maginot principles reappeared in Madagascar and Operation NordwindNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions1:45German raiders and cruiser riskQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions4:28Norway campaign as a contestable problemQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions9:00Sweden, iron ore, and NorwayNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions16:29Why Poland and Norway posed different guarantee problemsQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions17:21Britain, empire, and a long war of attritionQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions57:53Mediterranean routes and the wider warQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions1:15:40Churchill, crackpot labels, and historiographyQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions4:55Churchill as First Lord in the two world warsQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions1:10:27How certain is Churchill's later verdict on the R class?Q&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/719:54August 1941 U-boat mapChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/733:33Axis naval infrastructure sets different limitsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19411:20Force Z and the claim that air power killed the battleshipChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194117:25Singapore as a lifeline for Pacific strategyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194119:23Singapore as a prolonged reinforcement contestNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/73:21Convoys undercut gun-armed raidersNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/78:04A long-range raider with six or more forward torpedo tubesChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/712:31Long-range submarines, distant bases and the cost of surfacingChapter
- Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/75:08Defiant night fighter and Beaufighter replacementNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks0:13British Battle Tanks and the Matilda focusChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks2:16Matilda foreign service and captured useNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks4:15Soviet and Commonwealth Matilda logisticsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks5:47Why Australia kept the MatildaChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks7:12Australian Matilda protection modificationsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks8:05Matildas in Pacific combined-arms operationsChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks9:40Matilda amphibious and infantry-support adaptationsNotable Point
- Napoleon's Invasion Scheme: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p3/718:19Island warning time before air powerNotable Point
- Maginot Line: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p2/70:36The Maginot Line as a delaying defenseChapter
- Maginot Line: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p2/71:46Belgium and the need for a hard borderNotable Point
- Maginot Line: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p2/73:31The risk in a forward Belgium strategyNotable Point
- Maginot Line: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p2/74:22How fortifications buy timeChapter
- Maginot Line: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p2/76:25Forests and engineering assumptionsNotable Point
- Maginot Line: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p2/78:01Layered defense and false confidenceChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy0:24Why Italy was no shortcut to GermanyNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy8:49Why advancing in Italy mattered in AsiaNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy10:34A possible invasion of Japan and the supply build-upNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p3/3 - Italy13:36Opening a third drain on German logisticsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy11:57Cape Bon destroyers and night attackNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War18:00Seaplane-carrier fires shaped British safety practiceNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z0:19Force Z and the carrier availability problemChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z4:34Pound's Ceylon plan for the Far EastChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z13:22What faster armored-carrier construction could changeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...1:38Ark Royal and the Mers-el-Kebir attackChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...5:23Single-carrier limits and multi-carrier practiceNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...7:10Allied carrier lessons adapted to national practiceNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...9:18Illustrious under sustained air attackChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...12:32Rebuilding Illustrious's air group after the attackNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...18:15British and American carrier doctrine by geographyNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident0:05Altmark as a Churchill initiative caseChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident2:47Why strategic commanders must also be politiciansNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident4:23Senior-officer scarcity and overworkNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident5:50Churchill's Altmark objective and the Norway linkChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident9:20The scale of the Norway fleetNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident12:11The missing diplomatic follow-up to AltmarkChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident15:10Norway in Britain's distant-blockade strategyNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident19:09The Norwegian heavy-bomber basing counterfactualNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p4/4 - Gallipoli13:39Russian supplies and the second revolutionNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19400:35Images of War as a reference on armour in 1940Chapter
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19402:23A County-class cruiser beside armour bound for AlexandriaNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19403:47Maginot, Siegfried and Jersey: fixed defences and exposed gunsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19405:03Belgian light tractors and anti-tank mobilityNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19405:57The German vehicle shortage behind the panzersNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19406:51A Royal Navy officer's unexplained connection to a Mark VI light tankNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19407:56French and British tank use in 1940Chapter
- A Book or Two to Review (13): Images of War Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 19408:28German training and staff work, with a caveat about RommelNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant2:38Phoney War carrier dispositionsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant5:17Ark Royal's early air attacksNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant8:19Mobilizing a cruiser Walrus aircrewNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant10:30Walrus cruiser patrols in the South AtlanticNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant12:58Force K and the Graf Spee searchChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant14:32Skua strike counterfactual against Graf SpeeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant18:25Taranto and Fleet Air Arm public visibilityNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:07:18How often was Denmark's navy seized?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:10:41Who scuttled Peder Skram during Operation Safari?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:34:04How could Scandinavian coastal ships complicate a blockade?Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber1:15Why the Skua combined fighter and strike rolesNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber7:04Attack geometry against moving fleetsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber18:02What the Skua book reveals about naval aviationNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber19:35A 48-aircraft Illustrious-class counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:26:04From the Dumaresq to reliable fire-control tablesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:13:46Modern Britain in 1939 would win early but face a supply clockQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:48:28War and welfare created a broad case for the NHSQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:58:56The Long Range Desert Group combined navigation, maintenance, and raidsNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:23:11Wartime production must balance quality and quantityNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:43:21Occupation discipline depends on command controlQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:17:41German logistics and the Channel Islands trapQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:24:24Reusing castles for modern invasion defenceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)2:12:53Allied troops, segregation, and wartime BritainNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/145:17Town-wall towers and Canterbury's 1940 reuseNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1420:29Fortification spending and strategic valueNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Harlech Castle - Long Patrol P12/1441:11Falklands/Malvinas and national names for warsNotable Point
- The Ring of Iron(Nee Stone): Flint Castle - Long Patrol P4/1413:45Flint's later uses and naval namesakeNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:52:47Should France's empire have required a stronger navy?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI3:05:00What happened to the Danish fleet during Operation Safari?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-178324:43What was Gibraltar's Second World War stay-behind plan?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:30:47The Great Siege shapes borders and the future of a global baseNotable Point
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:34:08Why did Franco not attack Gibraltar during the Second World War?Q&A
- Patreon 26: The Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-17832:55:56Did Britain deploy the Royal Marines as a second army?Q&A
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:31:36Experience could not replace ships at SingaporeNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:21:17Why the World Wars crowd ironclads out of general historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:33:47Naval diplomacy and Anglo-Japanese war scaresQ&A
- Blockade38:54British distant blockade versus German submarine siegeNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:47:18Reading Churchill between hero and monsterNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:13:54Coastal Command's all-in response to Operation Sea LionQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:58:37Submarine warfare extended far beyond two famous campaignsNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:10:58Why patrol-aircraft density mattered in the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)57:36Why small enemy fleets consumed many British shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:20:00Why the United States still built battleships after MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:34:30German war options if Barbarossa never beganQ&A
- Some More Battle Cruisers36:15Scharnhorst and Gneisenau suggest a German fast-battleship alternativeNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History26:38Fire watching and evacuation in one family's Blitz memoriesQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:21:46An affordable starting point for coastal-convoy historyQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:29:18Foylebank and the cost of coastal convoy air defenceChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:34:23How Portland's air attack exposed convoy OA 178 to E-boatsChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:42:54How Fighter Command retained a claim on Coastal Command aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:47:06Why wartime fleet snapshots hide production lagNotable Point
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:54:13Bangor-class minesweepers as small sloop-like escortsQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:16:28Why airborne early-warning radar was not ready in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:20:52Why the First World War was not simply a gentlemanly conflictQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History2:51:23Why the Brewster Buffalo was not simply hopelessQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:02:58How early Fleet Air Arm reform had to begin for 1939Q&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:07:30Why German battleships demanded close attentionQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-4526:06The scale and cost of Britain's coastal shipping campaignNotable Point
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:12:52A wreck map traces Britain's coastal convoy routesNotable Point
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:39:46Britain used rather than greatly expanded its canalsQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:51:28Canals saved fuel and carried Britain's heavy wartime freightChapter
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:55:21Women boat crews and canals on the British home frontChapter
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:34:21How delayed Norwegian mobilization aided the German invasionNotable Point
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:41:08How an Allied Norway could have shortened the warQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:45:54Why Germany could not hold IcelandQ&A
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices4:02Weserubung as a high-risk planning gambleNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices9:53Why commandos struggled in field combatChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices14:23Operation Torch's harbor coups de mainNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:22:21Patton's reputation became an Allied deception assetQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:23:20Churchill's own writings complicate heroic and villainous portraitsNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:26:32A wartime-logistics interpretation of the Bengal famineNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:00:08Comparing Iowa, Bismarck, Littorio, and KGV carrier conversionsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:28:06Damage-control experience could have saved an early-war carrierQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:29:00A 1944 Norway invasion would hinge on Trondheim and NarvikQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class27:47Marshal Soult and Marshal Ney find long second livesNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class30:45Hugh Tweedy's career from Victorian ships to Grand Fleet destroyersChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class34:04The Tweedy family carries military service into the Second World WarNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?37:41What angled flight decks would change in 1940Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?47:01Naval combat without radio or radarQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:01:56Why the Allies did not try to retake NorwayQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:46:21Why Hitler expected concessions rather than war in 1938Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:50:15When a warship becomes a cargo carrierQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War16:09Geoffrey Bennett's lessons from Second World War naval battlesChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:37:58King and Cunningham's grudging wartime respectNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:44:57Cunningham or Nimitz as the best admiral of the warQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:07:17How Fleet Air Arm maintainers were organizedQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:24:56How to assess Prince Philip's wartime naval serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:28:50Why some Second World War commando operations remain obscureQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:32:11Why Second World War records disappear from viewQ&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History33:57Reliable prewar orders finance American industrial expansionChapter
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History34:57Canada builds the base for wartime expansion before the warNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval1:31:50Would a production TOG have beaten the German tanks in Norway?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval1:35:00Did the Neubaufahrzeug's armour justify its imposing appearance?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy8:51Prince Philip's Royal Navy career at a glanceChapter
- Prince Philips Navy36:27Was Philip barred from helping defend Greece?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy1:40:17Wartime letters built Philip and Elizabeth's relationship over seven yearsNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy1:48:02How did wartime naval service shape Prince Philip?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy2:02:38From Okinawa kamikazes to Tokyo Bay aboard WhelpChapter
- Prince Philips Navy2:11:33How family mail crossed Allied and Axis linesQ&A
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)23:46Handling destroyer torpedoes at seaChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)25:33Magnetic mines threaten Britain's destroyersChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)27:02ORP Burza turns to rescue HMS Gipsy's crewNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:03HMS Gipsy's failed air-defense engagementNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:30Decentralized command before HMS Gipsy's miningNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)29:08A survivor's account of HMS Gipsy's miningChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)32:53Destroyer patrols on the Dover frontChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)36:05A destroyer evades a massed air attackNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)37:04Rescuing the bombed coaster BoulderNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy5:05Indomitable puts carrier aviation in operational contextChapter
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:01:43A twentieth-century naval history can narrow around one warNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:45:31No major navy entered the Second World War fully readyQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:54:23French confidence exceeded French naval readinessQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers6:46Replacing wartime cruiser lossesChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers13:51Comparing the wartime Royal Navy and US NavyQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers24:49Old cruisers were costly ASW substitutesNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers27:49Cruiser presence pressured Japan before 1941Chapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers51:32Wartime airborne ASW weapons and FidoQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:46:38British decolonisation preserved economic tiesNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:07:34Comparing national performance across two world warsQ&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies15:47China, Japan, and Korea across centuriesNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies22:21Did the Second World War begin politically in 1919?Q&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies24:06Was the Second Sino-Japanese War merely a proxy war?Q&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies59:15Persia between British and Russian influenceNotable Point
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:14:51When did sailors have to know how to swim?Q&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?0:22Lend-Lease as an anti-dictator strategyChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?21:45Landing craft as Lend-Lease's valuable warshipsNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA0:16Why Lend-Lease served American strategy before Pearl HarborChapter
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA8:39Churchill's appeal includes accepting responsibilityNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease2:29Why rearmament must begin years before a predicted warChapter
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)2:44:45El Alamein and the turn toward cautious armoured warfareChapter
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)3:11:21Did the US Army use Sherman Fireflies?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)3:29:52American tank crews arrive in Britain confident in the ShermanChapter
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)3:30:54War bonds and a troopship letter make the risks of service concreteNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)3:32:58Segregation shapes the 761st Tank Battalion's route to combatNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)3:35:10Tank crews wait for combat while worrying about families at homeNotable Point
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...28:57Why Britain's rearmament program was aimed at 1942Chapter
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...57:08Italy's entry turns Britain's war into a wider maritime contestChapter
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...1:12:11Why Sweden preferred armed neutrality to Allied paymentQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from26:52Cruiser limits met expectations of a coming warNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:34:03Can one ship provide a lens on an entire war?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...3:48:42Why the Allies withdrew from Norway in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...4:04:45Norway's delayed reserve alert illustrates the cost of hesitant follow-throughNotable Point
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...4:08:45How might Operation Downfall have gone?Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...4:13:14Allied experimental weapons extended beyond familiar projectsQ&A
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:47:40Why Italy worried the Royal Navy more than GermanyNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments8:49Why naval initiative changes from one era to anotherQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments17:46A retired Royal Navy engineer and wartime radio workNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments19:29The captured merchant ship that became DoggerbankNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)15:03Why modern fleets still need a high-low frigate mixChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:54:38Merchant losses reveal the opening maritime warChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan49:55Why the U.S. four-piper reserve was accidentalQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:51:46A wartime firewatcher at St Paul's CathedralQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:52:51Family war service and the limits of oral historyNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects20:47Was the Jolo raid America's first offensive action?Q&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects38:24Phonetic alphabets and a possible second meaning of 'Nuts'Notable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:09:30Industrial foundations of American wartime shipbuildingChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:25:03Labor relations and housing behind wartime shipyardsChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:29:36Liberty Factory and mass-produced merchant shipsChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:31:03Building a foundation in wartime shipbuildingNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:34:24How wartime shipyard workers reached distant jobsQ&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:35:27Four shipyards and the T2 tanker production programmeNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects3:53:09Red Army morale varied across units and frontsNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:13:36Why World War II rewarded battlecruiser qualitiesNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:44:32RAF radar engineers returned after an air raidNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations44:04The objection to Britain's invasion of IcelandQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations47:07The British garrison and civilian relations in IcelandNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations54:11The reach and supply problem of a German base in IcelandQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:07:44Britain kept sending divisions overseas during the invasion scareNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:21:26Which Axis power came closest to preparing for a long war?Q&A
- Four Random Books 23: 1930s Thinking...13:11Tactical means and the danger of assuming equal competenceNotable Point
- Counter Piracy in China in 1920s & 1930s: Long Patrol Part 33:48Frederic Dreyer brought operational authority to the China StationNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:29:35Dudley North's lost command opportunityQ&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:23:48What limited wartime naval repair in India?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History1:49:18Cable's criticism of Britain's prewar allocation of resourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History3:45:07Stalin's purges and Red Army readiness in 1941Notable Point
- The Great White Fleet37:13Why mutual deterrence restrained chemical warfare in World War IIQ&A
- The Great White Fleet2:02:26Early fleet service for future World War II admiralsNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32224:28Why Germany did not initially panic the Royal NavyNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32240:01What two more peacetime years might change at SupermarineNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations1:46:35Was Patton a good general or merely lucky?Q&A
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations1:53:04Churchill's 'Never Give In' speech in its 1941 settingChapter
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations2:01:44How the Royal Navy made a mass invasion findableChapter
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:41:29The N3's likely Second World War valueQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:43:43The G3's likely Second World War roleQ&A
- Four Random Books 20: Intelligence0:35The SOE manual on counter-surveillanceChapter
- Four Random Books 20: Intelligence11:28Civilian invasion fears and defiance during the BlitzChapter
- Four Random Books 20: Intelligence13:07The Royal Navy cost of stopping Operation Sea LionNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)24:00Abruzzi-class cruisers and Mediterranean enduranceChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:10:56Why submarine services favored younger aggressive commandersNotable Point
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys13:49What the 1943 annual treated as wartime sea powerNotable Point
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys14:29The 1943 annual as a wartime fleet-recognition referenceChapter
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys17:54The 1943 annual's published picture of the German NavyChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 37:38USS Ranger tests the small purpose-built carrierChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 316:28The Yorktown class organizes a ninety-aircraft strikeChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 324:16The 1930s solidify three national carrier pathsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 32:05Argus bridges experiment, training, and ferry workChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction13:53The unexplained loss of blimp L-8's crewNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:35:22An extra battlecruiser in the hunt for Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:39:40Cruisers and destroyers supporting the Revenge counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:40:45L9 destroyers and earlier adoption of the 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:48:18Axis vendettas against famous Allied warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...4:04:39Axis naval flak and Japan's missing mid-range weaponQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s1:29:44How Courageous and Glorious could have freed newer carriersQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:10:45How World War II hull framing compares with modern warshipsQ&A
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol33:57Requisitioned paddle steamers in World War IIChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:04:33Hood's possible gray antifouling paintQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:44:16Why planned Dutch battlecruisers would become denial targetsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 17: General Ship & Total War1:12Zhukov's concentration on fighting the warNotable Point
- Four Random Books 17: General Ship & Total War2:25Kharkov under German occupation and total warNotable Point
- Four Random Books 17: General Ship & Total War3:46Kursk and the Soviet advance to the Black Sea coastNotable Point
- Four Random Books 17: General Ship & Total War7:02Chemical and biological warfare fears around StalingradNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:32:03Landing-craft crews and repeated assault runsNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:35:24The first target in a German atomic-bomb counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:38:53Moscow or Stalingrad as a second atomic-bomb targetQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:52:26Recognition of British merchant sailorsQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War8:05The wartime Waverley behind today's namesakeNotable Point
- Paddle Ships at War2:13:48PS Jeanie Deans turns from excursion steamer to minesweeperNotable Point
- Paddle Ships at War2:16:49USS Wolverine and USS Sable train carrier pilotsChapter
- Paddle Ships at War2:34:56Paddle minesweepers and convoy escorts in both world warsChapter
- Paddle Ships at War2:45:18Why navies retained paddle warships into World War IIQ&A
- Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?1:45:19Gallipoli's combined-operations lessonQ&A
- Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?3:24:24Why a museum ship should represent a specific dateNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy7:21How mine damage helped Belfast survive the warChapter
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy8:40Why late 1942 changed a warship's survival oddsNotable Point
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War1:18Town-class deployments at the start of warChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War25:34Would a January 1939 clash have changed the world war?Notable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction39:25Why shell volume mattered with long flight timesNotable Point
- Town Class Part 1 of 7: Cruisers18:09Why a three-power war overwhelmed cruiser planningChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:33:03What a later start to the Second World War would change at seaQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:49:07Churchill, North Sumatra, and strategy without adequate resourcesChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:52:42Which power was best prepared for war in 1939?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:58:16Which ship class had the greatest impact on the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:09:41The Japanese Navy's unsustainable all-out opening effortNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:10:03Could Japan have fielded a stronger commerce-raiding force?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:13:50Park and Fort ships as Canada's Liberty-ship equivalentsNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:19:14Why the Royal Navy could not concentrate on the Eastern Fleet in 1942Chapter
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions7:00Aiding the Soviet Union despite Arctic convoy costsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions16:51Mobilisation and training between the two world warsNotable Point
- The Fairey Story - Part 3 of 4: The Difficult Next Generation42:00Swordfish anti-submarine patrols remained front-line combatChapter
- Part 4 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"0:32From World War II carrier defence to the late-1950s fleetChapter
- The Fairey Story Anew...3:17:14Swordfish or SBD: which had the greater WWII impact?Q&A
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...0:41Kursk beyond the tank-battle labelChapter
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...2:23Soviet propaganda and labour mobilisation at KurskNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...3:09Defence in depth and mine clearing at KurskNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...4:39A balanced history of KurskNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...5:13The danger of an unarmoured training tankNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...6:32Observation duties and directed artillery fireNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...7:13Arnhem's exposed supply corridorNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...8:31British armour and rules of engagementNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...9:40Tank Men's campaign-wide structureChapter
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...10:30Tank crews learn professionalism through survivalNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...11:03The tank turret as a social levellerNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...11:38Tank careers expose design and doctrineNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...12:24Tank Men as an entry pointNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...12:56Reassessing British armoured doctrineNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...14:53Weather strips air cover from the Normandy advanceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...15:24The Odon advance stalls under hard resistanceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 13: It's Armoured Warfare Time...16:17Mass requires close infantry-armour cooperationNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"8:18Fighter direction before the Big Blue BlanketChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"18:08Radar development as a wartime feedback cycleNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"27:34Why anti-aircraft submarines sacrifice their best defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"51:20Fleet Air Arm growth required a global shore networkQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:17:47The limits of evidence on Sydney and KormoranChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:27:39What the 2008 wreck survey establishedNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:25:30Lifeboats keep their rescue role in warQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:39:42Why a German Atlantic sortie alarmed the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection3:32:17How an armament problem became the A-26 InvaderNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:22:21HMAS Quiberon carried the battle name into World War IINotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay2:17:54Technology leadership before mass productionQ&A
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II0:53The Tribal class as a family of wartime shipsChapter
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II11:40Destroyer memoirs preserve the officer's operational viewNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction4:22The Altmark incident and neutrality under pressureChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction18:23Cabinet turnover weakened Norwegian defence policyChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction23:30Halvdan Koht and the limits of undefended neutralityNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction31:27Mobilization politics and Norwegian readinessChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 1 of 5: Introduction44:17Denmark's invasion and the Norway campaign timetableNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)10:32An amphibious operation built from wartime equipmentChapter
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)34:24Logistics could stop a European war before victoryNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American8:13Royal Navy battle summaries as operational learning documentsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 11: Quasi American14:37Wartime carrier orders for a postwar U.S. fleetChapter
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark2:05:39Could a destroyer board a battleship in World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:46:31Britain entered the war before its shipbuilding buildup maturedQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:55:58The invasion threat that tied German troops to NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:58:36Could Aquila operate Italian aircraft?Q&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation2:02:28Why level bombing magnified small aiming errorsNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation2:09:56German attempts to jam British bombing aidsQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:45:15The unresolved air group for AquilaQ&A
- HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/44:49Penelope's Mediterranean formations and wartime operationsChapter
- HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/46:03How two U-410 torpedoes sank PenelopeChapter
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/25:49How institutional incentives shaped dive bombingNotable Point
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/246:25Conning towers and the limits of command protectionNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:39:13How First World War torpedo triggers compared with the Mark 14Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:45:36What destroyer mix might Canada have built before World War II?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard2:26:43Why older fighters often become ground-attack aircraftNotable Point
- Four Random Books 10: Overview Books9:30Using repeated profiles to trace ships through the warNotable Point
- Four Random Books 10: Overview Books14:42Cruiser profiles that follow a ship's whole careerChapter
- Four Random Books 10: Overview Books16:03Cruiser camouflage designed to confuse identificationNotable Point
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/49:14Norway, Operation Ariel, and the cruiser as transportChapter
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/410:12Codeword Cromwell, an invasion patrol, and an uncertain mineChapter
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/411:08A small cruiser in the fleetwide hunt for BismarckNotable Point
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/411:45Force K and the struggle to keep Malta suppliedChapter
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/412:08Galatea, U-557, and two losses in forty-eight hoursChapter
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/414:16Reading an Arethusa's wartime armament from an ONI guideNotable Point
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/415:09Recognising an Arethusa by silhouette and gun layoutNotable Point
- HMS Arethusa (1934) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 1/48:00A compact cruiser with a wide wartime careerChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War15:09William Slim on command, logistics, and BurmaChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War50:44Taranto through a Swordfish pilot's memoirChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:43:16Could V-2 rockets have gone to sea?Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:46:27Why the wartime Royal Navy doubled in manpowerQ&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War2:11:54Allied trucks and the German mobility shortfallNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:11:26Why Overlord would have been harder in 1943Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:23:14Cunningham's negotiation with the French squadronChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:44:55Roads, water, and defensive logistics on CreteNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War4:03:10Singapore's reservoir as a defensive failureQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers25:42Could any Royal Navy cruiser avoid serious wartime damage?Q&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers42:27Perth's final action in Sunda StraitChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers51:21From HMS Apollo to HMAS HobartChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers1:27:19Sydney's final convoy escortNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers1:36:18Sydney and Kormoran: deception at close rangeChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1321:05Henry Stimson, preparedness, and codebreakingNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1322:38Stimson's wartime office and colonial paternalismNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1020:34Why treaty-era choices lasted into World War IINotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review15:36Royal Navy Eastern Waters and carrier availabilityChapter
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review22:19Abadan oil reduced the Empire's tanker requirementNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review30:23British naval intelligence: a rich but demanding readNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review49:24Essex production reflected invasion-loss estimatesNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:17:43Hitler's war declaration eased Roosevelt's dilemmaNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:28:14A technical guide to Second World War U-boatsChapter
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:29:39U-boat landing and supply boats were easily damagedNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:30:33Rescue buoys could expose a damaged U-boatNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:31:10A U-boat gun's range exceeded practical aiming conditionsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:32:23Heavier anti-aircraft guns did not solve U-boat vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:41:31Ise and Hyuga gained flight decks but not air groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:59:02Earlier attempts to shoot incoming torpedoesNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:01:24Italian circling torpedoes and mechanical guidanceQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:08:01Other navies wanted Italy's circling-torpedo technologyQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:07:35How Britain's home defenders could delay invasionNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:13:51Were Scouts expected to fight an invasion?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:28:56How might the Royal Family have been evacuated?Q&A
- Four Random Books 8: Churchill13:09Churchill's case for courage and perseveranceNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:48:31Why the Later U-Boat War Fades from the StoryQ&A
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol0:38Why interwar sloops matteredChapter
- Flower Class Shorts no 2: HMS Zinnia (& HMS Azalea)0:26From HMS Zinnia to Barbara and BreidelNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 1: HMS Foxglove2:44Dive-bomb damage and wartime support serviceChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:36:07Dunkirk command and control in Desperate VictoriesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:44:22Reading on Patton and BradleyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:13:09Montgomery and concern for casualtiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:15:33Dominion troops, risk, and wartime memoryQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:24:01Joseph Stilwell under pressureQ&A
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea0:31Westerwald tests Norwegian neutralityChapter
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea5:22An accessible visual overview of war at seaChapter
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea6:53Magnetic mines turn coastal channels into wreck fieldsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea12:07A naval atlas for seeing the war in spaceChapter
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:31:17Skuas sink Königsberg at Bergen, then suffer in NorwayNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:43:31Perth endurance and the limits of mobilization ordersNotable Point
- Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)1:48:48Blackburn's interwar Fleet Air Arm legacyChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A42:32How layered fighter CAP made eighteen practicalQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:55:30What a wartime Brassey's reveals in real timeNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:04:16Why Arctic convoys still needed heavy coverQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:04:43How Brassey's published wartime naval informationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:26:06A 1946 view of the air war at seaNotable Point
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 228:26Vichy officers confront Britain's refusal to quitNotable Point
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 239:07Dakar's setback for Free FranceChapter
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 1 of 21:51France’s fall changes Britain’s warChapter
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 1 of 23:42Britain was not alone, but carried the burdenNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design12:13A technical history of British warship designChapter
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design13:42Why welded submarine hulls demanded cautionNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul2:29:53Rapid fire, radar, and enough escorts counter E-boatsChapter
- 2 Minutes: Dog Boats - The Fairmile D's0:14Fairmile D Dog Boats and Britain's coastal fleetChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 38:51The 1940 shock drives new coastal craftChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 322:30Dunkirk reveals the E-boat challengeChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 324:13France's fall reshapes Channel securityNotable Point
- Four Random Books 3: Naval Aviation in a Swordfish0:35Sea Flight and the Fleet Air Arm's global warChapter
- Four Random Books 3: Naval Aviation in a Swordfish2:01Hurricanes, HMS Anthony and Royal Marines in MadagascarNotable Point
- Four Random Books 3: Naval Aviation in a Swordfish10:49Naval Wings: a Swordfish pilot's wider warChapter
- Four Random Books 3: Naval Aviation in a Swordfish14:26Flying through Red Sea mirage conditionsNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?1:02:51The River Plate as the Leanders' defining momentNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:29:00What time did wartime naval reports use?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:03:21How campaign credits obscure HMS Nubian's recordNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:07:32HMS Cossack after grounding at NarvikQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:26:58When a successful fighter delays its own replacementNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:29:01Mapping the Second World War at seaChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:37:20A day-by-day chronology of the naval warChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:59British interest in skip bombingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:37Two books for the big picture of World War II at seaQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:39:33Why Queen Elizabeth rebuilds beat replacement battleshipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:58:50A balanced introduction to the Imperial Japanese NavyChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:26The Japanese Navy's limited Atlantic reachQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:02Why radar alone could not fix Japanese carrier defenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:33Could Germany have used an unscuttled French fleet?Q&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era18:29What did a temporary petty officer rank mean?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A21:59A sailor's life across two world warsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A35:25When Royal Marines received automatic weaponsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A50:34Stephen Ambrose as a starting point, not the last wordNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A57:35What historical drama can sacrifice for the screenNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:09:08Wild Blue and the cost of daylight bombingChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:23:16Beyond Band of Brothers in Dick Winters's own wordsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:41A naval Band of Brothers?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:56:27Cavalry charges during the Second World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:27:08What was the most important naval contest of the war?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:14Would the United States remain outside the European war?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:33D-Day deception, Rommel, and the Normandy problemChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:42:43If Operation Overlord had failedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:44:05Would Operation Dragoon survive an Overlord failure?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:02:04Would newer fighters and rifles transform America's opening war?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:17:33If USS Texas had been torpedoed in 1941Q&A
- PQ17: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P3/30:22Why PQ 17 needs a wider war contextChapter
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/315:05Why a simple escort still took almost a yearNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/318:13Trawlers as the convoy war's mass escort forceNotable Point
- Introduction to Crete 19413:19Crete inherits the disorder of the Greek campaignChapter
- Introduction to Crete 194139:05German operational risk and Allied exhaustionNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...42:35Why Far East incidents vanish from familiar historyQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...49:27How later wars shape the sources historians followNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:02:44A reading route into the Battle of the Java SeaQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:37:50Could a 1939 Pacific war delay war in Europe?Q&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:23:19How Soviet alignment could deter an invasion of PolandQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 417:17Britain's 1941 weakness depends on the war it foughtNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 429:05American preparedness and British commerce raidingQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 441:24Counterfactual history as branching contingencyNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6a Introduction to Patreon Video 442:23A deliberately extreme U.S. alignmentChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 431:31Late Axis entry meets an already-mobilized allianceChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 434:50Roosevelt's political room for material aidNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 439:30A nominally neutral America as a Pacific supply baseNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 442:49A Black Sea role for the Deutschland classNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 446:01A Pacific-first war changes the ships Britain buildsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A36:48Choosing a World War II fleet by ship typeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A44:16Why the Hellcat is preferred to the CorsairQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:03How accurate was World War II naval gunfire support?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:14:46Night fighting before and after effective radar fire controlQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:34:04Why the British Eastern Fleet deserves attentionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:55:15Would modern conscription include women equally?Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 40:14A January 1939 route into a wider warChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise14:03Enterprise carries wartime gold to CanadaNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise14:37Enterprise's early-war deploymentsChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise15:21Rescuing survivors after Cornwall and DorsetshireNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise16:09Modernisation before renewed surface actionNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise19:20How war transformed Enterprise's air defencesNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald18:10Captain Augustus Agar's combat reputationNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald20:06A gold convoy disguised as an eastern deploymentChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald23:29Why battleship cover mattered against a DeutschlandNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald23:52The E class carries a larger gold transfer in 1940Notable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald24:37An old cruiser becomes flagship of the Fast GroupChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 1 - HMS Emerald28:03D-Day fire support and the Royal Navy's crew shortageNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:59A broad guide to Second World War special operationsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:14:59Earlier Pershing production and American tank strengthQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:01A Mark 48-style torpedo in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:38:01Using With Utmost Spirit for Mediterranean naval studyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:38:57British interest in carrier-based airborne early warningQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:07:20Pegasus Bridge as a gateway to D-Day airborne historyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:19:59Aircraft recognition cards as wartime visual trainingNotable Point
- An Introduction to Patreon Video 3: The Little Boat Wars...0:10Why the Little Boat Wars were more than motor-boat tacticsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A16:43Third Division from D-Day to the end of the warNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A22:07Choosing between two Third Division historiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A51:49A guide to naval anti-aircraft guns and delayed rearmamentChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:08:30Why British carrier aircraft lagged in 1939Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:10:28The uncertain evidence for Royal Navy torpedo reloadsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:57:48A World War II class least desirable to serve inQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:01:32The weakest wartime light cruisersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:08:38Starter books for the Mediterranean naval warQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:25:25Fleet Air Arm groups in the late 1940sQ&A
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 242:19Polish crews and U-class submarine serviceNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:29:20British submarine design across two world warsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:57:42A visual guide to the wartime Fleet Air ArmNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:31:21A 1940 snapshot of naval strategic thoughtNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:31:23Beaufighter and Mosquito as complementary aircraftQ&A
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.28:16A French intervention counterfactual for SpainNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-434:34Why the Indian Ocean deserves to be treated as its own theaterChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:52:20When could a surface raider really divert British power?Q&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:02:25Operation C begins with Japan's 1942 eastern offensiveChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:40:24Why Britain did not attack the French fleet at ToulonQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:46:17Why French and Italian leaders expected Britain to stop fighting in 1940Notable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:55:24Why the Royal Navy struggled to rotate exhausted commandersQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-433:03:38Why the Indian Ocean campaign disappears from popular memoryNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)1:25Why the Indian Ocean war disappears inside other campaignsNotable Point
- 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
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)37:50Iraq and Iran widened the Indian Ocean warNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)1:02:57If Britain had faced Japan without allied interventionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A22:04Finding sources on Royal Navy electronic warfareQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A23:08Axis aircraft reference books and the persistence of biplanesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:38Anti-submarine success is more than sinking U-boatsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A38:11Why Britain and America did not need submarine trade routesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A39:07Why a surfaced U-boat usually loses to aircraftQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A40:48Comparing aircraft U-boat totals and disputed Swordfish claimsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:53Why old electronic-warfare work can remain secretQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:48:32British Somaliland and the danger of treating service budgets as separableNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:28:37A Channel Tunnel in the Second World WarQ&A
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians11:12Why high-end fleet capacity starts before warNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:20:35Recovering HMS Edinburgh’s goldQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:22Destroyer actions from the opening war yearsChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:54:52Could prepared Manila Bay defences have prolonged resistance?Q&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:57:13Philip Vian’s view from the sharp endChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:19:43How post-war narratives reshaped Montgomery and PattonNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:24:41Why coalition navies can cooperate effectivelyQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:35:12The coalition bargain behind Eisenhower's commandQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:43:21How post-war German memoirs rebuilt a military mythNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:55:36Comparing German commerce raiding across two warsQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You12:51HMS Unicorn as aviation support infrastructureNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You16:37Spica-class boats in the convoy warNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You20:40Camouflage and the Black Swan sloopsNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You23:07Why the little ships mattered in massChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You33:58Operation Ironclad and the Madagascar problemNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:02:21The D-class anti-aircraft conversion war interruptedNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:08:22D-class cruisers shifted from blockade hunts to D-DayNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:10:10The refit problem: useful ships cannot be sparedNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:11:58The opening years of war are fought with the prewar fleetNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:14:18D-class cruisers in war and at D-DayNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:21:30Hunt-class escorts and adapted V and W destroyersNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:25:29Force Z and command fit in the Malaya disasterNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)3:21Why flying boats remained indispensable in World War IIChapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)14:07Why biplane floatplanes persisted into World War IINotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)15:22PB2Y Coronado: a flying-boat bomberNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P4/4 Post WWII0:04Why flying boats remained useful after 1945Chapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P4/4 Post WWII2:13Martin Mars: exceptional flying-boat lift capacityNotable Point
- Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal23:56Mobilisation and maintaining capabilityChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:39:45Which navy was most ready for 1939?Q&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:51:29Why cruiser sizes grew so sharply after the treaty eraQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:16:28Why wartime Britain delayed new fleet carriersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:33:49An alternative Royal Navy rearmament programmeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:03:18Why World War II resources made the Korean War possibleNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:17:23The practical limit of World War II armourQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)26:03Free French gun calibres and Allied logisticsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)22:26The Royal Navy’s Tribal flotillas and their lossesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:12The Coast Guard in the convoy warNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A18:18Soviet amphibious landings in the Black SeaNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:19An accessible starting history of DunkirkNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A29:24The candid wartime memoir Happy OdysseyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A37:58Reading the St Nazaire RaidNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:01DUKW development and Allied collaborationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:36:18Japanese anti-submarine warfare before World War IIQ&A
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville22:15The health cost of preparing the interwar fleetNotable Point
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville26:07Taking command of Force H after France's collapseChapter
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville29:32Eastern Fleet command after Operation CNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers21:51Convoy protection as a global logistics systemChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:08Wartime design papers reveal the work behind a warshipChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A56:51A Bismarck action against Renown and Queen ElizabethQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:13:23Could Norfolk and Suffolk have attacked Bismarck?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:14:17Why escort fleets so often need wartime crash programsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:42:53Comparing Royal Navy and Japanese naval aviationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:50:49Escort carriers were useful because they were plentifulQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:26:39Malta's role in the North African convoy warQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:33:55Could the Axis have invaded Malta?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:54:58Why ship losses did not automatically end Cunningham's commandQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:56:36An Allied victory in Norway would have mattered more than CreteQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:58:31Where Reginald Henderson might have commanded in wartimeQ&A
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 221:37Northern Patrol work and the hunt for Graf SpeeNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 20:03Why a World War I cruiser remained relevantChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 313:54Rapid expansion can leave naval experience trapped at the topNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 31:32Wars begin with the fleet already availableChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 42:17Reading small-warship history through camouflageChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 43:59The Royal Navy's six-hundred-strong trawler fleetChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 421:16Flower-class corvettes served thirteen navies on both sidesChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 437:11Black Swan camouflage distorted size and directionNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war30:30Italian MTB development and German influenceQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war48:22Italian MTB performance across the world warsNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:43:55How early mine damage may have helped HMS Belfast surviveNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:02:10Why Japan did not carry out a Panama Canal air attackQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:06:02RAF air-sea rescue boats and seaplanesQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:10:08The largest practical gun for a wartime destroyerQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:23:08Japan's neglected need for convoy escortsQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:27:09Japan understood US submarines but overestimated its defensesNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 214:41Italy's RD-class minesweepers carried an old fleet through another warChapter
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style0:06Refits connect warships to an Allied industrial networkChapter
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style7:52Victorious's Bombay refit reveals the crew experience of overseas yardsNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style30:33Bomber range turns British dockyards into dangerous repair sitesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:07Mers-el-Kebir was brutal but strategically understandableQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:45:45Additional Free French ships would strengthen several Allied groupsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:14:48The Royal Navy supplemented merchant crews in wartime logisticsQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…53:24Indefatigable and Unicorn among wartime carrier favouritesQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:04:47Ark Royal and the credibility cost of propagandaNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:08:10The Alaska class arrived after its best momentNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…2:08:34Could the teardrop-hull Albacore have changed World War II?Q&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)14:09HMS Folkestone, the little ship that couldNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 26:00Harold Burrough as a quiet wartime professionalNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 27:07Philip Vian's career through Action This DayChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 229:34Stanley Goodall turned naval policy into ship designsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:09:00RAF mining attacks on the Kiel CanalQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:02Resources and strategic overreach in Germany's defeatNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:05:27British plans for expanding Commonwealth navies in a major warQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:12:20The most well-rounded fleets from 1935 to 1946Q&A
- An Introduction to Falklands Command11:05Why amphibious experience still needed institutionsChapter
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:46:48Hood's intended role versus wartime employmentQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A9:40Cunningham's working relationship with RooseveltQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A11:30What the Admiralty meant by 'Winston is back'Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A20:25ASDIC and sonar terminologyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A29:45Royal Navy basing in wartime AustraliaNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A35:38Why salvagers plunder sunken warshipsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A30:34Why Canadian and Australian Tribals served longerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A52:25Mers-el-Kebir as a necessary but corrosive missionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:17:09Why wartime landing craft needed many servicesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:45:16First World War destroyers that returned to serviceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:52:39The danger if Germany had captured the French fleetQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:53:03Why submarine war-crime judgments require legal contextQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history33:44Stephen Roskill's Leander connection and official historyNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:27:24British and American wartime command culturesNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:31:54How wartime promotion reshaped carrier commandNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A20:33British repairs still competed for space in American yardsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A26:03HMS Unicorn combined aviation support with light-carrier operationsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A40:42Comparative sea-floatplane doctrine remained a research gapQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A45:51Crown Colony cruisers were stripped-down Town derivativesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:07:02Holding Norway would reshape Germany's resource warQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:31:02Submarines became anti-submarine hunters in both world warsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:45:18Pre-war cargo ships could provide escort-carrier conversion stockQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:53:03Regular, hostilities-only, and conscript naval serviceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:55:55Tallboy made stationary warships and shipyards vulnerableQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:56:30HMS Nubian was a leading destroyer combat-record candidateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered11:12How Royal Marine commandos became standing unitsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered27:30Why a four-ship Tribal-class listing misleadsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered36:18LST wartime scale versus LSD long-term influenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered1:01:59The strategic bargain behind the Tizard MissionQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)12:49Fresh-water supply for Far East amphibious operationsNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)14:36Why Operation Ironclad targeted MadagascarChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)22:46LSTs carry LCT(5)s as deck cargoNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)24:16The LST's wartime record challenges the 'large slow target' nicknameNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)13:38Long-range LSIs for an expanding global warNotable Point
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 143:52Designing Landing Craft Tank for heavier armourChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 154:20The LCT Mark IV's mass lift and Far Eastern refitChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:00:54The Landing Craft Infantry as a giant raiderChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:18:20A thousand-rocket barrage from an LCTNotable Point
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:24:50Why wartime landing-craft lists are never exhaustiveQ&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:31:41How did the British landing in Somaliland work?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:40:56Did Britain consider gas against an invasion?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:41:56British LVT use and the Royal Marines' postwar pathQ&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:46:22Did the Allies consider landing craft on the Rhine?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:51:26Did World War II have a Mexeflote equivalent?Q&A
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:56:18How did fuel and ammunition reach amphibious forces?Q&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:41:29ORP Blyskawica as the oldest preserved destroyerQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:44:49War interrupts a planned carrier transformationNotable Point
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck43:18Piorun's extensive service after the Bismarck huntQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck48:35How many Tribal destroyers were built and survivedQ&A
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)0:00Why the Namsos campaign offered a strategic opportunityChapter
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)6:07Narvik breaks the German destroyer forceChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full30:40Norwegian neutrality as a strategic dilemmaChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream26:23Battle-class complexity, late arrival, and Tribal disposalChapter
- When Good Guys Go Bad - A Conference History Video1:54When wartime necessity overtakes maritime rulesChapter
- Asama Maru Incident, 21st of January 1940 - #AsamaMaru80 video45:33Germany's plan to recover merchant sailorsChapter
- January 6th Asama Maru leaves San Francisco - An AsamaMaru80 video2:08Why the Asama Maru interception matteredChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video0:13The declaration delay gives German raiders a head startNotable Point
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video1:57Britain projects naval power with ships that do not yet existNotable Point
- SS Tairoa - A River Plate 80 Video0:16Why refrigerated cargo ships mattered in 1939Chapter
- Surface Raider Conundrum - A River Plate 80 Video2:53Imperial shipping sustained Britain's war effortChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)57:02Eskimo, Nubian, and the Tribal class's combat reputationNotable Point
- Cruise of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video0:16Reading Admiral Graf Spee's cruise as strategyChapter
- Cruise of the Admiral Graf Spee - A River Plate 80 Video3:53Why the Battle of the River Plate mattered at homeNotable Point
- RN Commands in 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video0:04The Royal Navy's worldwide command map in 1939Chapter
- RN Commands in 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video1:26Why a European war became global at seaNotable Point