Christopher Stone’s Post

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Now that I'm "out" I finally feel the freedom to confidently say if you want to increase military retention, you have to start with military families. I heard a prominent military spouse share the anecdote that service members are beautiful flowers, and military spouses are the, ahem, fertilizer they need to grow (keeping it profesh for the LinkedIn crowd). Frankly, that's exactly how it feels most days as a military spouse - and I'm one of the lucky ones with a remote career, who is not underemployed, and currently loves where we live. Think about it: in what world would you, at most, want to be second-best to your spouse? You cannot plan anything from vacations to five-year plans with any certainty, much less where you might live. You give up everything you know: friends, family, support, hair stylists (this one is tough), doctors, etc., to follow someone else around and support their career - one that often leaves you on your own. And yet, we do it. I did it for 18 years, and it was hard, and I had to fight for silver linings. I know the military has much, much bigger issues than caring about spouses, but here's an idea: don't move folks around so much. In the civilian world, it's rare to ship you off to different locations every two-to-three years - especially when you have to travel so much for work, anyway. Also, it would save the military precious dollars. It's not that simple of a solution, but taking care of families will go a long way with military retention.

🎥 Watch our new video case study and see the transformation in action! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcG5b6kR See how the Pritzker Military Archives Center's move to Kenosha allowed them to implement Spacesaver's state-of-the-art powered mobile storage solutions, enhancing their ability to preserve military history for generations to come.

Of all times, this is a remarkably important window in history to be thinking and talking about #deterrence strategy and structures. Deterrence isn't solely about nuclear deterrence, and US Strategic Command isn't the only player. It IS, however, central to bringing together thought leaders and practitioners of deterrence. Join the conversation. #DeterrenceSymposium #thinkdeterrence

SECDEF Gates in the WaPo making some of the same arguments I made yesterday at the Belfer Center of the JFK School: "The current approach to ensuring such [U.S. military] superiority in Congress, the White House and the Defense Department cannot meet the international challenges — and peril — facing America and our allies. The bipartisan Commission on the National Defense Strategy said in its report issued in July: “The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war. … The nation ... is not prepared today.” After a 30-year holiday from history, we face an aggressive China and Russia (abetted by North Korea and Iran) and the very real prospect of war between nuclear-armed great powers." https://lnkd.in/e2F6_Znv

Some elements of US intelligence and special operations are so secretive, we don’t even know their names. Adam Gamal lived that life and his new book “The Unit” pulls back the curtain on America’s most secret military unit. Adam joins Marc Polymeropoulos to discuss what is a true American Dream story from Alexandria, Egypt to the pinnacle of the special operations world, and why diversity is a necessary component in defense and intelligence. https://lnkd.in/e5yBk9Ai

Some elements of US intelligence and special operations are so secretive, we don’t even know their names. Adam Gamal lived that life and his new book “The Unit” pulls back the curtain on America’s most secret military unit. Adam joins Marc Polymeropoulos to discuss what is a true American Dream story from Alexandria, Egypt to the pinnacle of the special operations world, and why diversity is a necessary component in defense and intelligence. https://lnkd.in/e5yBk9Ai

The Disclosure Movement: Military's Role and Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick's Emergency Brake Delve into the challenges of covering the Disclosure Movement amidst new voices and military resistance. Explore the Pentagon's attempt to suppress the subject and the pivotal role of Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick. #DisclosureMovement #MilitaryResistance #DrSeanKirkpatrick #UFOCoverup #PentagonSecrets #DisclosureCommunity #UFOInvestigation #UFOEvidence #ExtraterrestrialDisclosure #GovernmentCoverup

✍️ 'Enemy Action': The UK Ministry of Defence, Academia and the Historical Record✍️ In this article, Dr Geraint Hughes argues that the impediments the MoD is placing by restricting access to archival evidence on recent military conflicts is not only undemocratic, but also distorts public awareness of the complexities of these wars, and hampers the British armed forces’ own efforts to develop as ‘learning institutions’ that can use military history to support their own professional understanding of the challenges posed by contemporary warfare. Explore it👇 https://ow.ly/Zhg950SzB6y

Special operations forces will be critical to forward posturing capabilities and shaping conflicts before they break out against sophisticated adversaries in the future — including in the so-called non-kinetic realms of military activity, officials say. With the conclusion of the Global War on Terror and the return to great power competition in 2018 — prioritizing nation-states over non-state actors for the first time since 9/11 — U.S. Special Operations Command has been asked frequently what its role in this new paradigm will be. https://lnkd.in/esQC8EA3