Paul J. Springer is an American author, professor, and military historian. Born in Iowa in 1975, Springer attended Urbandale High School in Urbandale, Iowa and Texas A&M University, earning a BS in Psychology in 1997 and a PhD in Military History in 2006. He is now a history professor at the Air Command and Staff College and has also taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point.[1] He has appeared as a consultant and interview subject for programs on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the National Geographic Channel. Springer was named a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 2014.
He is the author of America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror (ISBN 9780700617173).[2][3]
He is the author of Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook (ISBN 9781598847321), part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to military robotics and artificial intelligence.
He is the co-author of Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Laws of War (ISBN 9780415833370), with Glen Robins, a book analyzing the ways in which prisons of the American Civil War changed over the course of the conflict.
He is the author of Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook (ISBN 9781610694438), part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to conflict within the cyber domain.
He is the author of 9/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary and Reference Guide (ISBN 9781440843341), a collection of 100 primary-source documents relating to the War on Terror, with analysis of each.
He is the editor of Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare (ISBN 9781440844249), a work detailing the myriad elements of cyber warfare.
He is the author of Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution (ISBN 9781440830853), an analysis of how the use of autonomous military vehicles is transforming the very nature of human conflict.
He is the co-author of Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers (ISBN 9781440863585), a 3-volume series with Christopher R. Mortenson, examining the experiences of the U.S. Army in all of its wars.
He is the editor of Propaganda from the American Civil War (ISBN 9781440864445), a collection of 100 examples of Civil War propaganda, with analysis of each.
He is the editor of Cyber Warfare: A Documentary and Reference Guide (ISBN 9781440872792), a collection of 85 documents related to cyber warfare, with analysis of each.
He is the co-author of Sharing the Journey: A Military Spouse's Perspective (ISBN 9781585663156), with Dawn A. Goldfein and Katelynne R. Baier.
