Christopher Stone is an American space policy and strategic analyst. He has served on the staffs of two United States Senators, seven years in the Pentagon as well as over a decade in current space operations for both defense and intelligence sectors. He is published in Comparative Strategy: An International Journal, The Space Review and Quest: A History of Spaceflight Quarterly. He served on the boards of the National Space Society, the International Space Safety Foundation and served as Vice President of the space policy and engineering firm Falcon Research from 2010-2015. He holds a B.A. from the University of Missouri and two masters degrees, one, in particular is a Master of Science in Defense and Strategic Studies from Missouri State University. He is the author of Reversing the Tao: A Framework for Credible Space Deterrence, published through Amazon.