Paul J. Springer

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 Urbandale, Iowa and Texas A&M University, 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 and taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point.^[1] He 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.

Publications

• America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.^[2][3][4]

• Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook, part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to military robotics and artificial intelligence.^[5]

• 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 changed over the course of the conflict.^[6]

• Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook, part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to conflict within the cyber domain.^[7]

• ^[8]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.

• Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare (editor), a work detailing the myriad elements of cyber warfare.^[9]

• Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution,^[10] an analysis of how the use of autonomous military vehicles is transforming human conflict.

• Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers ^[11] a 3-volume series with Christopher R. Mortenson, examining the experiences of the U.S. Army.

• Propaganda from the American Civil War,^[12] 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.^[13]

• Sharing the Journey: A Military Spouse's Perspective, with Dawn A. Goldfein and Katelynne R. Baier.^[14]

References

1. "When a Soldier Attacks a Comrade". The New York Times. June 16, 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
2. Springer, Paul J. (2010). America's captives: treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. Modern war studies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1717-3.
3. Carruthers, Susan L. (2010). "America's Captives: Treatment of pows from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. By Paul J. Springer". The Journal of American History. 97 (3): 776–777. doi:10.1093/jahist/97.3.776.
4. Burgess, Edwin B. (2010). "EPWs/POWs". Library Journal. 135 (4): 90. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
5. Springer, Paul J. (2013). Military robots and drones: a reference handbook. Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-59884-732-1.
6. Springer, Paul J.; Robins, Glenn (2014). Transforming Civil War prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the politics of captivity. Critical moments in American history (1st ed.). New York (N.Y.): Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-83336-3.
7. Springer, Paul J. (2015-02-24). Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-61069-444-5.
8. Springer, Paul J. (2016-10-03). 9/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary and Reference Guide. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1-4408-4334-1.
9. Springer, Paul J., ed. (2017). Encyclopedia of cyber warfare. Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4408-4424-9.
10. Springer, Paul J. (2018). Outsourcing war to machines: the military robotics revolution. Praeger Security International. Santa Barbara (California) Denver (Colorado): Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LCC. ISBN 978-1-4408-3085-3.
11. Mortenson, Christopher R.; Springer, Paul J., eds. (2019). Daily life of U.S. soldiers: from the American Revolution to the Iraq War. Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado: Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4408-6358-5.
12. Springer, Paul J. (2019). Propaganda from the American Civil War. Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-6444-5.
13. Springer, Paul J. (2020). Cyber warfare: a documentary and reference guide. Documentary and Reference Guides. Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado: Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-4408-7279-2.
14. Goldfein, Dawn A.; Springer, Paul J.; Baier, Katelynne R. (2020). Sharing the Journey: A Military Spouse Perspective. Air University Press.