“…Another factor was the emerging institutional embrace of a systemic understanding of the ways in which a service member's family and children are also impacted by wartime deployments and that the health and well‐being of this primary supportive context was central to the task of maintaining force readiness and the ability of service members to perform in repeated, sometimes back to back deployments (American Psychological Association Presidential Task Force, ; Glynn, ; Institute of Medicine, ; US DOD, ). From 2001 to 2014 there was an explosion of research on the effects of wartime deployment, combat exposure, parental PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and a host of other war‐related conditions on military children, spouses, and the quality of marital and family functioning (Chandra et al., ; Creech, Hadley, & Borsari, ; U.S. Department of Defense, ; Flake, Davis, Johnson, & Middleton, ; Institute of Medicine, ; Sheppard, Weil Malatras, & Israel, ; Trautmann, Alhusen, & Gross, ). Collectively, these studies have offered empirical support for systemic models of family functioning and a more nuanced understanding of the mechanisms by which stress and trauma reverberate across family and partner relationships (Chandra et al., ; Gewirtz, McMorris, Hanson, & Davis, ; MacDermid Wadsworth, ; Paley, Lester, & Mogil, ).…”