Dr. Paul J. Springer, Emerging Technology and Future Threats

  Dr. Paul J. Springer

Dr. Paul J. Springer, "Emerging Technology and Future Threats, Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the robot overlords."

Moderator: Maj. Gen. Walter Givhan, (Ret.), ALWAC President.

231 Montgomery St, Montgomery, AL.

Reception at 5:30 pm CT, briefing at 6:15 pm, and question time till 7:30 pm.

Webinar via Zoom: login and social time, from 5:45 pm CT. 

Dr. Paul J. Springer is a professor of comparative military studies in the Department of Airpower. He holds a doctorate in history from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Springer is the author, coauthor, or editor of fifteen books, with two more expected to be submitted for publication in 2026. These works include America’s Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror (Kansas, 2010); Transforming Civil War Prisons: Lincoln, Lieber, and the Politics of War (Routledge, 2014, co-authored by Glenn Robins); and Outsourcing War to Machines: The Military Robotics Revolution (Praeger, 2018). His upcoming works include The Handbook of Aviation History (Oxford University Press, coauthored by S. Michael Pavelec); and Brothers in Peace and War: The West Point Class of 1829 (Kansas). 

Springer is also the editor of two series, Transforming Warfare and History of Military Aviation, both with the Naval Institute Press.

He teaches courses on leadership, strategy, terrorism, military history, and technology. Prior to ACSC, Dr. Springer taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point and Texas A&M University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, headquartered in Philadelphia.