Paul J. Springer
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. 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 (). He is the author of Military Robots and Drones: A Reference Handbook (), 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 (), 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 (), 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 (), 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 (), a work detailing the myriad elements of cyber warfare. He is the author of Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution (), 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 (), 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 (), 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 (), 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 (), with Dawn A. Goldfein and Katelynne R. Baier. References 

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