Bill Whittle Network

Bill Whittle Network
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Apr 6, 2026 • 14min

What Now, NATO?

After 77 years, the greatest alliance in human history is definitely showing its age. Can a rudderless and increasingly anti-Western Europe be counted on any longer to provide the money and effort needed to save itself?
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Apr 5, 2026 • 17min

Apollo vs Artemis: A Tale of Two Trajectories

When Apollo 8 returned from humanities first trip to the moon in 1968, they didn’t waste any time about it: there were two more complete Apollo missions to fly before Apollo 11, a mere seven and a half months later. Artemis II is finally headed to the moon — and that truly is wonderful! — almost three and a half YEARS after Artemis I. Even the trajectory of Artemis II — let alone the entire program — seems a little too chill.
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Mar 29, 2026 • 15min

PROJECT HAIL MARY: When Hollywood Doesn’t Hate You

Our own Scott Ott came away from a science fiction movie mightily impressed! Was it extensive use of practical effects and lack of dead-eyed CGI? Or is there a deeper magic that Hollywood has not only abandoned, but learned to despise?
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Mar 25, 2026 • 19min

By Any Other Name

Scott Ott brings us some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that more young people than ever are in favor of socialism over capitalism. The good news is, it’s not the economic theory; it’s the NAME that’s the problem.
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Mar 23, 2026 • 15min

My Country: Right or Wrong?

Criticism of Operation Epic Fury continues to come in from the usual suspects… and some of the unusual ones as well. In this episode of Right Angle, Scott, Steve and Bill wrestle not with strategy and objectives but rather morality and historical wisdom. Many times life is not about good and bad options; many times it’s about bad and worse ones.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 14min

‘A MERITOCRACY… if you can keep it’

What if government cutbacks meant getting rid of the poor performers rather than the poorly connected? Isn’t the idea of a MERITOCRACY built into the fundamental assumption about how a free people’s government works?
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Mar 14, 2026 • 14min

A Little Piece of Heaven

There’s no charity like American charity: voluntary, local and deeply PERSONAL. Bill Whittle brings us a look at an organization that gives as much to its donors as it does to its recipients.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 13min

Schrödinger's Ayatollah

‘They seek him here, they seek him there Those Yankees seek him everywhere! Is he in Heaven? Is he in Hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel!’
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Mar 9, 2026 • 12min

Attack of the Clones

It may be painful to admit, but Iran’s Shahed-136 drone is likely the state-of-the-art weapon for the mid 2020’s: simple, effective and CHEAP. There was a time when the Pentagon would not have stooped to produce something so basic. But Pete Hegseth’s War Department isn’t too proud to learn one of history’s most important lessons: when the enemy has a better weapon than you do, don’t deny it. COPY IT. Meet the SpektreWorks (!) LUCAS clone!
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Mar 4, 2026 • 19min

Skin in the Game in Dubai

As we watch history being made on the other side of the world, it can all seem very clinical, very cut-and-dried. This time, however, Bill Whittle has skin in the game: his wife and stepdaughter were in Dubai when the attacks started, and are unable to leave until… well, nobody knows. Does having your closest loved ones in harm’s way affect the way you look at things? And what about all of our servicemen and women whose families have to deal with this every time someone ‘rolls the Iron Dice?’

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