Paul J. Springer is an American author, professor, and military historian. Born in Iowa in 1975, Springer attended Urbandale High School in

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and

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, earning a BS in Psychology in 1997 and a PhD in Military History in 2006. He is now a history professor at the

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and has also taught at the

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at West Point. He has appeared as a consultant and interview subject for programs on the

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, the

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, and the

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. Springer was named a Senior Fellow of the

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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

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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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Springer, Paul J. 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