Topic Poll
Added 2025-10-28 12:46:36 +0000 UTCG'day all - as flagged in the last video, it's time for another Patron topic poll as we head into the tail end of the year.
As always, multiple choice is enabled and I've tried to tag these entries with the broad category they fit into. Also feel free to add any other suggestions you might have and I'll pull those into a spreadsheet I've just created for user suggestions (otherwise there's a real risk I forget them).
I can't guarantee I will follow the results of the poll exactly (sometimes an episode just comes together easily or becomes topical and I want to do it sooner) but as always I'll try to take the results into account as best I can.
More updates on other points coming soon, but for now, happy voting.
Comments
Would recommend not covering the UK until the Defence Investment Plan is released given how much of the future is riding on the allocations that will be outlined in that
Matthew Hughes
2026-01-27 15:22:37 +0000 UTCI am reading more and more speculation that Trump may be amenable to a shift to a "spheres of influence" world order, which would be disastrous for US global interests and the project of democracy at large. I think that an episode providing a breakdown of the pre-2025 US alliance structure, and contrasting it with Chinese progress on soft and hard power projection, would be influential while Trump does all he can to wreck it.
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2026-01-12 07:07:55 +0000 UTCAgreed - but given the lack of ability to progress with ship class the USN really needs, spending a lot of money on a new class with less obvious need appears really crazy.
Martin Hall
2025-12-23 05:02:38 +0000 UTCDefiant-class battleship? ;-) Probably best to give this one a little time to be better defined.
Douglas Rampersad
2025-12-23 00:03:37 +0000 UTCI'm really hoping for the Nation Study: UK, but the damn Defence Investment Plan is taking an age to clear Treasury!
Moco coco
2025-12-13 23:30:26 +0000 UTCAny opinion on private entities funding war? Such as Dárek pro putina? ("Gift for Putin")
JustShadow
2025-11-30 16:00:38 +0000 UTCI know the poll has already closed, but I was wanting to hear from someone with a background in defense economics what the recent sale of Russian gold might mean (if anything) in the grand scheme
Joe Vandevander
2025-11-26 20:10:14 +0000 UTCId be interested in a video in the tone of “How quantity compares to quality — and how to find the balance between the two,” discussing why and how a military-equipment procurement approach should be guided by the availability and price of weapon systems compared to effectivnes (JDAMs, Tomahawks vs. Flamingo, etc.).
Norman Grau
2025-11-12 13:45:51 +0000 UTCI wanted to suggest some previous super weapons as reference points which I would be interested in seeing in the discussion... and then struggled to exclude huge rafts of weapons. e.g. to the guy who had never seen a stick used that way , it must have come as quite a shock that he could be hit with it. Game changing! Maybe the definition of a super weapon is one that looks good but fails to actually be a useful or sensible item for military purposes, hence the lack of bull whips among front line troops despite it being in common use amongst archaeologists.
Fafhrd 002
2025-11-04 15:29:32 +0000 UTCIf you do why some nations struggle to build cheap weapons, I would love some "and what would it take to fix that" stuff. Again, this is my bias for wanting to understand Canada's attempts to suddenly reach NATO standards of spending in short order.
Andrew Jensen
2025-11-04 07:57:30 +0000 UTCBut....they all sound pretty fascinating.
Ashley Felton
2025-10-28 13:18:02 +0000 UTC“How to scale up a military industrial complex?” Given that mass manufacturing anything can bring down its cost. Is is possible to optimize the shit out of like Tomahawk manufacturing? To reach like 100 k USD per shot.
Benicstamas@hotmail.com
2025-10-28 13:15:47 +0000 UTC
