Zach Ota
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Zach Ota
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· Nov 12
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I think we are in an existential war against the darkness. Our ammunition is not bullets & explosive shells but joy & love. Our guns are not rifles or cannons but our interactions with people around us.
We have no choice in this. You either fight or you allow the hate & evil to take over our world
We have no choice in this. You either fight or you allow the hate & evil to take over our world
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I think we are in an existential war against the darkness. Our ammunition is not bullets & explosive shells but joy & love. Our guns are not rifles or cannons but our interactions with people around us.
We have no choice in this. You either fight or you allow the hate & evil to take over our world
We have no choice in this. You either fight or you allow the hate & evil to take over our world
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Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at mcu_press@usmcu.edu for your free copy today!
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Hard copies of “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” are in! This is THE definitive John Boyd text—almost 700 pages of Boyd in his own words on conflict and competition. Email Marine Corps University Press at mcu_press@usmcu.edu for your free copy today!
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
Literally a false Idol.
Russia's 1st humanoid robot was revealed today. A bit like a mobik, it fell over as if shot and our efforts at hiding the disaster convinced no one.
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Literally a false Idol.
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After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<
This Veterans Day, I’m humbled by those who served before me, honored to once again serve as a 5th Marine, and proud to pass on our legacy to younger generations who will write the next chapter of our history.
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This Veterans Day, I’m humbled by those who served before me, honored to once again serve as a 5th Marine, and proud to pass on our legacy to younger generations who will write the next chapter of our history.
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📢 NEW ANALYSIS: Japan & South Korea Lean in on Nuclear-Powered Subs 🇯🇵🇰🇷⚓️
What drives their nuclear submarine ambitions — and what hurdles remain?
Read the commentary below👇
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What drives their nuclear submarine ambitions — and what hurdles remain?
Read the commentary below👇
rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...
@marsecbradford.bsky.social @mikebosack.bsky.social
IP25104 | Japan and South Korea Lean in on Nuclear-Powered Subs: Why and How They Might Develop These Capabilities
KEY TAKEAWAYS • Japan, Australia and South Korea have in recent weeks taken political steps towards the development of nuclear-powered submarines. • Japan and South Korea had focused their force desig...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
📢 NEW ANALYSIS: Japan & South Korea Lean in on Nuclear-Powered Subs 🇯🇵🇰🇷⚓️
What drives their nuclear submarine ambitions — and what hurdles remain?
Read the commentary below👇
rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...
@marsecbradford.bsky.social @mikebosack.bsky.social
What drives their nuclear submarine ambitions — and what hurdles remain?
Read the commentary below👇
rsis.edu.sg/rsis-publica...
@marsecbradford.bsky.social @mikebosack.bsky.social
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Happy 250th Birthday to all Marines, past, present, and future!
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a group of soldiers and saying happy birthday to you .
Alt: Happy Birthday!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Happy 250th Birthday to all Marines, past, present, and future!
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Happy 250th Birthday to the Marine Corps! 🎂🇺🇸 Our November/December issue of Naval History features a variety of articles showcasing various chapters of their illustrious history. usni.org/magazines/n...
On Our Scope | Naval History - December 2025, Volume 39, Number 6
In this issue we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps with a variety of offerings showcasing various chapters of their illustrious history.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Happy 250th Birthday to the Marine Corps! 🎂🇺🇸 Our November/December issue of Naval History features a variety of articles showcasing various chapters of their illustrious history. usni.org/magazines/n...
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“Diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words…”
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November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Diverse people who ran curiously to type, with drilled shoulders and bone-deep sunburn, and a tolerant scorn of nearly everything on earth. Their speech was flavored with navy words…”
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Happy 250th Birthday, Marines!
It’s been an honor to share a few of those years with all of you.
Here’s health to you and to our Corps for many more!
It’s been an honor to share a few of those years with all of you.
Here’s health to you and to our Corps for many more!
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Happy 250th Birthday, Marines!
It’s been an honor to share a few of those years with all of you.
Here’s health to you and to our Corps for many more!
It’s been an honor to share a few of those years with all of you.
Here’s health to you and to our Corps for many more!
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The past 30 years, I always called my Grandpa Don on Nov 10 to wish him a happy USMC birthday. He grew up without running water, and enlisting in the Marines, and then returning after college as an officer, dramatically changed the trajectory of his life. He died in Sept at age 96. Miss you, Marine.
November 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The past 30 years, I always called my Grandpa Don on Nov 10 to wish him a happy USMC birthday. He grew up without running water, and enlisting in the Marines, and then returning after college as an officer, dramatically changed the trajectory of his life. He died in Sept at age 96. Miss you, Marine.
(HAC)Mateship 🇦🇺 🇺🇸
This is good news, and great U.S. -Australia collaboration.
www.defenceconnect.com.au/joint-capabi...
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Aussie research sees breakthrough as Raytheon, Northrop prepare to deliver first HACM
The US Air Force has picked Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Northrop Grumman to build the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM), developed alongside the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research...
www.defenceconnect.com.au
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
(HAC)Mateship 🇦🇺 🇺🇸
African-American history is our history, too, and we are all poorer and lonelier without it.
12/ He calls the lack of attention paid to Black liberators "truly insufficient," and notes: "Approximately 12.5 percent of the American liberators were of African-American descent." His organisation had campaigned for their recognition, which had been lacking for decades.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
African-American history is our history, too, and we are all poorer and lonelier without it.
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Happy Veterans Day to all the brothers and sisters sisters who raised their right hand, served in tough times and great times, made lifetime friendships, and then returned to be citizens-----without making their time in uniform their entire personality.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy Veterans Day to all the brothers and sisters sisters who raised their right hand, served in tough times and great times, made lifetime friendships, and then returned to be citizens-----without making their time in uniform their entire personality.
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“Whenever the world makes you cynical, whenever you doubt that courage and goodness is possible - stop and think of these men.”
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Whenever the world makes you cynical, whenever you doubt that courage and goodness is possible - stop and think of these men.”
Praying for our friends in the Philippines 🇵🇭
Philippines evacuates 100,000 people as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon reut.rs/4op85gE
Philippines evacuates 100,000 people as Fung-wong intensifies into super typhoon
Fung-wong intensified on Sunday into a super typhoon ahead of its expected arrival later in the day, threatening to unleash torrential rains, destructive winds, and storm surges.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Praying for our friends in the Philippines 🇵🇭
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Hard copies of "Orchestrating Power" are in the wild! I hear those that pre-ordered should be getting them soon. You only have a month left to pre-order and get your copies before the official release date: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
November 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hard copies of "Orchestrating Power" are in the wild! I hear those that pre-ordered should be getting them soon. You only have a month left to pre-order and get your copies before the official release date: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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We come from a land of fire and ice
🧪🌋⚒️ This never gets boring. A pulse of hot lava meanders down the vent proximal surface flow this morning at Kilauea volcano #Hawaii. More than just pretty, Volcanologists study time variations of lava, tephra & gas distribution, movement, & composition to understand volcanic processes and hazards
![Glowing lava flow on 8 Nov. 2025, after the most recent high fountain episodes, from a live view camera, Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Kaluapele (Kīlauea caldera), from the northwest rim of the crater USGSc V1cam]. SOURCE: U.S. Geological Survey https://share.google/Sf0CKlyXCTCde18Et](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gr745zvkrah3b73ptnlymyct/bafkreibo7g553pfzvfdlzknyouhjaof5f4t2ddmp3sytwnsbupemdsvziy@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We come from a land of fire and ice
Even if paid, our most junior service members and their families pay the price of a government shutdown.
Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month trib.al/3F3Ks58
Military officials tell troops 168 commissaries could close next month
Officials say commissaries will be open through Thanksgiving, but many stateside stores could close soon after due to the government shutdown.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Even if paid, our most junior service members and their families pay the price of a government shutdown.
We are people of the stars and seas.
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
We are people of the stars and seas.
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For a generation of Marines caught in the tech boom, mentorship is key. usni.org/magazines/p...
Resilience Disrupted | Proceedings - November 2025 Vol. 151/11/1,473
For a generation of Marines caught in the tech boom, mentorship is key.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
For a generation of Marines caught in the tech boom, mentorship is key. usni.org/magazines/p...