Major Paul Landsberg is Assistant Professor of History for the History Department in the Dean of Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy. His academic interests are Cold War history, military, war, and society studies, environmental history, and history of science and technology in the United States.

He received his commission in 2013 from Officer Training School. After graduation from Undergraduate Combat System Officer training in 2014, he was assigned as a navigator in the EC-130H Compass Call. There he held a variety of positions and deployed in support of operations RESOLUTE SUPPORT and FREEDOM’S SENTINEL and served as liaison two expeditionary EC-130H units at the 609th Coalition Air Operations Center, supporting operation INHERENT RESOLVE in addition to operations in Afghanistan. After completing his PhD, Maj Landsberg returned to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base as an EC-130H Compass Call navigator. There he served in various positions including Junior Executive Officer to the Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern) Commander.

Doctorate of Philosophy, History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (2022)

Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies and History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (2010)

Assistant Director of Operations, EC-130H Evaluator Navigator, 755 OSS, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (Aug. 2025)

Junior Executive Officer to the Commander, Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern), Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. (July 2023-Aug. 2025)

Assistant Director of Operations, EC-130H Evaluator Navigator, 42nd ECS, Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. (Sept. 2022-July 2023)

PhD Student, U.S. Air Force Academy Faculty Pipeline, Air Force Institute of Technology Civilian Institutions, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. (Aug. 2019–Sept. 2022)

Multiple assignments culminating in EC-130H Evaluator Navigator, Chief of Standardization and Evaluation, 41st ECS, Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. (Jan. 2015–Aug. 2019)

Student, Undergraduate Combat Systems Officer Training, 479 Flying Training Group, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Fla. (May 2013–Jan. 2015)

Flight Information

Senior navigator with more than 1,300 flight hours and 425 combat hours in the EC-130H Compass Call (2015-2025)

Honorable Mention, George L. Anderson Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Kansas Department of History (2023)

Robert Yaple Prize in Military History, University of Kansas Department of History (2022)

Military

Air Medal with “C” device and two Oak Leaf Clusters

Air and Space Force Commendation medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster

Afghanistan Campaign Medal with two Service Stars

Combat Readiness Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal

Global War on Terrorism Service Medal

Air and Space Expeditionary Service Ribbon with Gold Border with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster

Military, War, and Society Studies

History of Science and Technology

Environmental History

Cold War