- Professor of Comparative Military Studies, Air University
Dr. Paul J. Springer is a Professor of Comparative Military Studies in the Department of Airpower at the Air Command and Staff College, located at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He holds a PhD in history from Texas A&M University; an MA in history from the University of Northern Iowa; and a BS in Psychology from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the ACSC faculty, he taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Texas A&M University. He teaches courses on War Theory, Leadership, Airpower, Strategy, Military History, Military Command, and Terrorism. He is the author or editor of 12 books in print, with another 4 in progress. His most prominent works include America’s Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror and Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotic Revolution. He is a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and the series editor for the History of Military Aviation and Transforming War series, both with the U.S. Naval Institute Press.
His opinions do not represent the policy of the United States Government, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Air Force, Air University, or the Air Command and Staff College.
Experience
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2009–presentProfessor, Air Command and Staff College
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2006–2009Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point
Education
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2006Texas A&M University, Ph.D., History
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1998University of Northern Iowa, M.A., History
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1997Texas A&M University, B.S., Psychology
Publications
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2020Sharing the Journey, Air University Press
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2020Cyber War: A Documentary History, ABC-CLIO
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2019Daily Lives of U.S. Soldiers, 3 vols., ABC-CLIO
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2019Civil War Propaganda: A Documentary History, ABC-CLIO
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2018Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution, ABC-CLIO
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2017Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare, ABC-CLIO
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20169/11 and the War on Terror: A Documentary History, ABC-CLIO
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2015Cyber War: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO
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2014Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Laws of War, Routledge
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2013Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO
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2010America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror, University Press of Kansas
Professional Memberships
- Society for Military History
- Society for the History of Technology
- Phi Kappa Phi
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- Location: Maxwell AFB, Alabama, U.S.
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