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Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to another history of the Second World War interview.

Today I was joined by Dr. Alexander Clark, author of the upcoming book Tribals, Battles,

and Darings, The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer, for a rather wide-ranging discussion of naval

matters before the Second World War.

Dr. Clark is also the creator of a quite prolific YouTube channel, which has the very

non-confusing name of Dr. Alexander Clark, all one word.

On his channel, you can find literally hundreds of videos on a wide variety of naval topics.

Before we dive into the interview,

I thought I would first just give a brief overview of the naval situation around the world

during the interwar years. This is a topic that has been covered in great detail,

some would say too much detail on the members' episodes, and there will be a much longer series

of episodes on this topic sometime early next year as we start the slide towards the start of the war.

But for now, I will just give a brief overview of some of the topics that will get brought up during my interview with Dr. Clark,

and would cast a long shadow over any discussion of naval warfare before or during the Second World War.

There were few things more impactful on the Second World War at sea than an event that would

occur almost 20 years earlier in 1921 with the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty.

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