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Paul J. Springer

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Paul J. Springer is an American author, professor, and military historian.

Early life

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  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.