Trevor Albertson is an assistant professor and course director at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Merced, and was an IGCC-UCDC Dissertation Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer, federal congressional staffer, and deputy secretary of an agency of California state government. His research focuses on the political-diplomatic history of the twentieth century United States.