Paul J. Springer is an American author, professor, and military historian.

Early life

Singer was born in Iowa in 1975. He attended Urbandale High School in

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and

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, earning a BS in Psychology in 1997 and a PhD in Military History in 2006.

Career

He became a history professor at the

Air Command and Staff College The Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) is located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama and is the United States Air Force's intermediate-level Professional Military Education (PME) school. It is a subordinate command of the Air Un ...

and taught at the

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. He appeared as a consultant and interview subject for programs on the

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, the

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, and the

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. Springer was named a Senior Fellow of the

Foreign Policy Research Institute The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that conducts research on geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world and on eth ...

in 2014.

Publications

* ''America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror''. * ''Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook'', part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to military robotics and artificial intelligence. * ''Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Laws of War'' with Glen Robins, a book analyzing the ways in which prisons of the

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...

changed over the course of the conflict. * ''Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook,'' part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to conflict within the cyber domain. * ''9/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary and Reference Guide'' (), a collection of 100 primary-source documents relating to the War on Terror, with analysis of each. * ''Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare (editor),'' a work detailing the myriad elements of cyber warfare. * ''Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution,'' an analysis of how the use of autonomous military vehicles is transforming human conflict. * ''Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers'' a 3-volume series with Christopher R. Mortenson, examining the experiences of the U.S. Army. * ''Propaganda from the American Civil War'', a collection of 100 examples of Civil War propaganda, with analysis of each. * ''Cyber Warfare: A Documentary and Reference Guide,'' a collection of 85 documents related to cyber warfare, with analysis. * ''Sharing the Journey: A Military Spouse's Perspective,'' with Dawn A. Goldfein and Katelynne R. Baier.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Springer, Paul J. American military historians 1975 births Living people United States Military Academy faculty American male non-fiction writers Texas A&M University alumni Historians from Texas People from Urbandale, Iowa