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AWS has launched a classified cloud environment tailored for defense industry workloads, naming Northrop Grumman as its initial confirmed user. The project aims to accelerate the development of sensitive defense programs, reducing the friction of classified IT infrastructure. However, the evidence for wider adoption or significant influence remains limited to this single customer deployment described by AWS executives.

The Third Battle of Ypres consumed British and German forces for over 100 days between July and November 1917, all to gain a few miles of Belgian mud. The offensive's true driver was not terrain but alliance politics: Britain needed to prove it could still attack while France's army was faltering.

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https://defensehub.substack.com/p/passchendaele-a-great-war-village

I might be mistaken, but after today's app update, I'm able to edit remote folders—something that didn't work before. Is this a new feature, or am I imagining things? If it is new, congratulations!!!

I'm building an AI-powered OSINT tool to search, scrape, and analyze dark web (.onion) sites using Tor and Claude AI. I'm using Streamlit to interact graphically.

The core engine is running and it's generating tactical dossiers, but it's still evolving.

Components:

• Infra & Privacy: Docker and the Tor network (SOCKS5 proxy) for 100% anonymous traffic.
• Backend & Scraping: Python (FastAPI, LangChain, BeautifulSoup) with a local SQLite database.
• Artificial Intelligence: Claude Sonet for automated reports, and ChromaDB for semantic searches.

Initial Phase yet. Tor Network is very unstable.

Is anyone else currently building projects focused on the deep/dark web?

I'm quite regular with my posts and try to bring interesting and well-written articles, however, in the last month I've noticed a drastic decrease in the items mentioned above. It even seems like a kind of shadowban, similar to X. Have you noticed any changes?

Been quietly building this for a while. It's a real-time repository that automatically scrapes and parses open-access documents from global defense and intelligence sources.

Current state: 318 documents, 17 active agencies, categorized by Defense AI, Geopolitics, Hardware, History, Intelligence, and Tactics.

Sources include institutions like SIPRI and ISW. Everything is open access, nothing paywalled.

Filter by category or source. Updated automatically.

One note: every document links back to its original source and author. If you use anything from the library for research, writing, or analysis, please credit the original authors. These are researchers and analysts who put serious work into this material. The library exists to make their work more accessible, not to replace the attribution they deserve.

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Has anyone here migrated their Substack page to their own domain? What are the pros and cons? Sharing your experience would be valuable.