Alejandra Rocha

1 week ago | brookings.edu | Thomas Wright |Alejandra Rocha

Thomas Wright joined the Brookings Institution on February 18, 2025, as a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology after most recently serving as the special assistant to the president and senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council in the Biden administration.

Jun 20, 2024 | brookings.edu | Michael O’Hanlon |Alejandra Rocha

What are the current challenges and trends in the U.S. defense industrial base? What policy options and actions should be considered to strengthen it? These questions have become acute in recent years and should be major defense priorities for the next president. The United States has, in broad brush, never had a clear strategy for maintaining a strong defense industrial base.

Mar 15, 2024 | brookings.edu | Alejandra Rocha |Michael O’Hanlon

President Joe Biden submitted his fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget proposal on March 11, including a request for $850 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense.

Oct 25, 2023 | brookings.edu | Constanze Stelzenmüller |David Wessel |Alejandra Rocha |Sophie Roehse

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The war follows on Russian territorial aggression against its neighbor that began in 2014 with the illegal annexation of Crimea and a proxy war in the eastern Donbas region. Tracking developments in the Ukraine war, the Brookings Institution — in partnership with The Washington Post — presents the Ukraine Index, which compiles security, economic, and political data presented in graphic form.

Aug 5, 2023 | themessenger.com | Alejandra Rocha

A number of American politicians and strategists have criticized Europe’s supposedly lackluster support for Ukraine since Russia’s full-bore aggression began almost 18 months ago. As usual, former President Donald Trump has been among the most pithy, telling on July 23 that “Europe is doing very little compared to the United States, and it affects them more, no matter how you look at it. They’re right there. We’re an ocean apart.