{{Short description|American author and historian (born 1975)}} '''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.<ref>{{cite news |title=When a Soldier Attacks a Comrade |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/nyregion/16guard.springer.html?_r=1 |work=The New York Times |date=June 16, 2008 |accessdate=February 11, 2011 }}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |title=America's captives: treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror |date=2010 |publisher=University Press of Kansas |isbn=978-0-7006-1717-3 |series=Modern war studies |location=Lawrence}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Carruthers |first=Susan L. |year=2010 |title=America's Captives: Treatment of pows from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror. By Paul J. Springer |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=97 |issue=3 |pages=776–777 |doi=10.1093/jahist/97.3.776}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Burgess |first=Edwin B. |year=2010 |title=EPWs/POWs |journal=Library Journal |volume=135 |issue=4 |pages=90 |url=http://www.slj.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/853732-403/epwspows.html.csp |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716091806/http://www.slj.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/853732-403/epwspows.html.csp |archivedate=2011-07-16 }}</ref>

* ''Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook'', part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to military robotics and artificial intelligence.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |title=Military robots and drones: a reference handbook |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-732-1 |series=Contemporary world issues |location=Santa Barbara, Calif.}}</ref>

* ''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.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Springer |first1=Paul J. |title=Transforming Civil War prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the politics of captivity |last2=Robins |first2=Glenn |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-83336-3 |edition=1st |series=Critical moments in American history |location=New York (N.Y.)}}</ref>

* ''Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook,'' part of the Contemporary World Issues series examining the global approach to conflict within the cyber domain.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wBXHEAAAQBAJ&q=9781610694438 |title=Cyber Warfare: A Reference Handbook |date=2015-02-24 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-61069-444-5 |language=en}}</ref>

* <ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7hjHEAAAQBAJ&dq=9%2F11+and+the+War+on+Terror%3A+A+Documentary+and+Reference+Guide+9781440843341&pg=PR4 |title=9/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary and Reference Guide |date=2016-10-03 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-4408-4334-1 |language=en}}</ref>''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.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of cyber warfare |date=2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO, LLC |isbn=978-1-4408-4424-9 |editor-last=Springer |editor-first=Paul J. |location=Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado}}</ref>

* ''Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution,''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |title=Outsourcing war to machines: the military robotics revolution |date=2018 |publisher=Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LCC |isbn=978-1-4408-3085-3 |series=Praeger Security International |location=Santa Barbara (California) Denver (Colorado)}}</ref> an analysis of how the use of autonomous military vehicles is transforming human conflict.

* ''Daily Life of U.S. Soldiers'' <ref>{{Cite book |title=Daily life of U.S. soldiers: from the American Revolution to the Iraq War |date=2019 |publisher=Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC |isbn=978-1-4408-6358-5 |editor-last=Mortenson |editor-first=Christopher R. |location=Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado |editor-last2=Springer |editor-first2=Paul J.}}</ref> a 3-volume series with Christopher R. Mortenson, examining the experiences of the U.S. Army.

* ''Propaganda from the American Civil War'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |title=Propaganda from the American Civil War |date=2019 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-6444-5 |location=Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Springer |first=Paul J. |title=Cyber warfare: a documentary and reference guide |date=2020 |publisher=Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-4408-7279-2 |series=Documentary and Reference Guides |location=Santa Barbara, California Denver, Colorado}}</ref>

* ''Sharing the Journey: A Military Spouse's Perspective,'' with Dawn A. Goldfein and Katelynne R. Baier.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Goldfein |first1=Dawn A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7eHKzQEACAAJ&q=Sharing+the+Journey:+A+Military+Spouse's+Perspective |title=Sharing the Journey: A Military Spouse Perspective |last2=Springer |first2=Paul J. |last3=Baier |first3=Katelynne R. |date=2020 |publisher=Air University Press |language=en}}</ref>

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