Michael Creswell is an associate professor of history at Florida State University and an adjunct professor of strategy for the U.S. Naval War College. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. A specialist on international politics, the Cold War, and military affairs, Creswell is the author of A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe (Harvard, 2006). His next book will examine France’s arms strategy after the Second World War.