2026
 

Severed Above and Below: Convergent Failure in Subsea Cables and LEO Ground Station Infrastructure — East-West Strategic Research Collective, April 2026 Maps the geographic and operational overlap between subsea cable landings and emerging LEO satellite ground stations, identifying convergent failure points that span both layers of global connectivity, with AI as the accelerant on both attack and defense. Proposes a Unified Baseline AI Framework. [Under Review]
 

Frontier AI in Communications Infrastructure: Accountability, Oversight, and Democratic Resilience — ResearchGate / Academia.edu, April 2026 Working paper introducing a function-based accountability model for governing frontier AI in critical infrastructure. Translates high-level ethics principles into operational requirements through three case studies in network management, cyber defense, and emergency coordination. [Read →]
 

The Bear and the Dragon in the Wires: How Russia and China Are Building Iran's Cyber Arsenal Against Critical Infrastructure — East-West Strategic Research Collective, April 2026 Documents the Russia-Iran cyber pipeline (PROTEI, Positive Technologies, the January 2025 Comprehensive Strategic Partnership) and a parallel PRC enablement track, drawing on April 2026 Reuters disclosures of Ukrainian intelligence on Russian satellite imagery sharing and active Telegram coordination between Russian and Iranian threat actors. 44 footnotes. [Read →]
 

Iran Cyber Threat Brief — East-West Strategic Research Collective, March 2026 Operational brief on Iranian and Iran-aligned cyber capabilities, active targeting priorities, and the post-strike threat picture. [Read →]
 

Iran-Related Cyber & Telecommunications Risk Advisory — Figshare, March 2026 Five-page advisory synthesizing CISA, vendor, and OSINT reporting on Iran-aligned threat actors targeting the communications sector and critical infrastructure following U.S.-Israeli strikes. [Read →]
 

ICCC Intelligence Newsletter — International Communications CISO Council, recurring (most recent: May 2026) Twelve-page intelligence newsletter coordinated for the ICCC. Recent issues have covered Salt Typhoon, the GTG-1002 PRC espionage campaign, Iran threat actor matrices, the ASEAN landscape, and the Anthropic Mythos / Project Glasswing disclosure. [Restricted - Members Only]
 

2025
 

Southeast Asia: China's Cyber Incubator and the Looming Day One Threat — The Diplomat, October 2025 Argues the PRC uses Southeast Asia as a testing ground for cyber techniques later deployed against U.S. and allied critical infrastructure, with direct implications for Day One conflict scenarios. [Read →]
 

Syndicated and featured by:
 

RealClear Defense (United States) — Syndicated October 24, 2025. Tagged under China, Cyber, Salt Typhoon, CYBERCOM, ASEAN. RealClear Defense was created at the request of the Pentagon and House Armed Services Committee staff as the primary aggregator for U.S. defense professionals. [Read →]
 

ISEAS — Yusof Ishak Institute (Singapore) — Featured in the "Daily News on Southeast Asia" digest, October 24, 2025, under Media, Technology & Society. ISEAS is Singapore's premier government-affiliated research institute on Southeast Asian affairs. [Read →]
 

Indian Strategic Studies (India) — Reposted October 29, 2025 by Maj Gen P.K. Mallick, VSM (Retd.), former Senior Directing Staff at India's National Defence College and contributor to the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS) and the Vivekananda International Foundation. [Read →]
 

Australian Centre for International Studies (ACIS) (Australia) — Reposted October 25, 2025 with author attribution. ACIS is an independent Australian foreign policy institute focused on international relations and security. [Read →]
 

U.S. Naval Cryptologic Veterans Association (USNCVA) — Shared through USNCVA's official communications channels in October 2025. Founded 1978; membership includes retired NSA, Tenth Fleet, Naval Information Forces, and Cryptologic Warfare personnel. Publishes the quarterly CRYPTOLOG journal. [Read →]

 

Việt Nam — Đối Tác Chiến Lược Hàng Đầu Về An Ninh Mạng: Đầu Tư Quy Mô Lớn Từ Phương Tây Vào Hạ Tầng Trọng Yếu — Chìa Khóa Bảo Đảm An Ninh Toàn Cầu, 2025 Định vị Việt Nam là đối tác chiến lược hàng đầu của phương Tây về an ninh mạng và lập luận rằng đầu tư quy mô lớn vào hạ tầng trọng yếu là chìa khóa để bảo đảm an ninh toàn cầu trước các mối đe dọa từ tác nhân nhà nước. [Đọc →]
 

Taiwan Blockade & Invasion: A Global Economic Collapse — The Case for an Enforced Freedom of Navigation Treaty (FONT) — ResearchGate / OSF, August 2025 Quantifies the >$10 trillion in annual global economic activity exposed to a Taiwan Strait blockade and proposes a multilateral Freedom of Navigation Treaty uniting G7 and ASEAN states with pre-committed economic countermeasures, joint naval escorts, and insurance pooling to make blockades economically unsustainable. [Read →]
 

Communications Sector AI Risk Assessment (AI SRA) — Final Comments — Communications Sector Coordinating Council / CISA, 2025 (co-authored, lead drafter and final editor) Sector-level AI risk assessment prepared under Executive Order 14110 in support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency during the Salt Typhoon response. Cross-industry coordination product of the CSCC AI Council; non-public distribution. Tags: AI Sector Risk Assessment, AI SRA, Executive Order 14110, EO 14110, Communications Sector Coordinating Council, CSCC, CISA, DHS, ONCD, Salt Typhoon, frontier AI critical infrastructure, AI governance communications sector, sector-level AI risk, critical infrastructure AI policy, telecommunications AI risk. [TLP Restricted]
 

From Vietnam to Volt Typhoon: How the PRC Refined Grey Zone Cyber Tactics Before Targeting the West — SSRN, July 2025 (74 pp) 74-page longitudinal study tracing PRC cyber operational patterns from regional rehearsal in Southeast Asia to direct targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure. Curated by Ollie Whitehouse (CTO, UK NCSC) in his weekly intelligence summary alongside the U.S. Select Committee on the CCP, Atlantic Council DFRLab, and Czech CISA. Available on SSRN, ResearchGate, OSF, Authorea, and TechRxiv. Vietnamese-language version available.
[Read →]
 

Strengthening America's Digital Backbone: Why We Need a Cybersecurity Reset — USTelecom, July 2025 (co-authored with Robert Mayer) Industry policy white paper laying out a comprehensive cybersecurity reset framework for U.S. communications infrastructure, informing White House ONCD strategy. [Read →]
 

Selected earlier works:
 

Taiwan: Are We Ready? — Braccia.co, October 2025 Companion blog post to the FONT working paper, distilling the strategic and economic stakes of a Taiwan contingency for a general audience.
 

Cascading Failure & Lights Out: Day 1 of PRC Global Conflict — Braccia.co, April 2023 Early scenario analysis of cascading critical-infrastructure failure on Day 1 of a PRC global conflict. 
 

Food Security is National Security — Braccia.co, April 2022 Argues that domestic food-system resilience is a first-order national security concern, drawing on early-pandemic supply-shock dynamics.