Paul Joseph Selva (born 27 September 1958) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as the tenth vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[4] After attending the base high school[5] he enrolled at the United States Air Force Academy, where he graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical engineering.

The three-page article which was known as "Challenges to Integrity in our Changing Force," was seen to be apply to today's military in its path forward in the wake of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In July 1996 Selva was assigned to the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., where he served as assistant to the director, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Net Assessment.

Selva’s career as a senior officer began in 1998 where he was promoted to colonel and became commander of 60th Operations Group at Travis Air Force Base.

In October 2008 Selva became a lieutenant general when he was appointed as assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen.

[6] Selva also oversaw major components of the military that involve supplies air-dropped to Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish peshmerga, in their campaign against ISIS militia.

[9] In the wake of the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, Selva also introduced a new isolation unit to allow the Department of Defense to air transport multiple patients with highly infectious disease.

[10] In May 2015 General Paul Selva was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Selva identified Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the nations that could be a possible threat to a future United States.

[17] He also said that the Department of Defense was working with experts on ethics in order to study the threat posed by this kind of weapon and what will happens when technology is brought into the execution of warfare.

[21] He was also concerned over China's military buildup in the Asian Pacific and emphasized their development of capabilities with the potential to compete United States military-technological advantages.

[27] In an April 5, 2020, phone call to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer touted Selva as a potential COVID-19 czar to oversee the production and disbursement of medical equipment.

[28] In October 2020, after having retired, he joined "nearly 500" national security experts and multiple former Trump appointees in endorsing the presidential candidacy of Joe Biden.

[35] In December 2020, Selva joined the board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA),[36] which counts among its contributors many weapons manufacturers and military contractors.