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James Corum

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James Sterling Corum
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Main interestsMilitary history (History of warfare, World War II

James Sterling Corum is an American air power historian and scholar of counter-insurgency. He has written several books on counterinsurgency and other topics. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve.[1]

Early life

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Corum was educated at Heidelberg, Gonzaga University (BA, 1975), Brown University (MA, 1976), and Oxford (M. Litt., 1984). He graduated Ph.D from Queen's University in Canada in 1990.[2]

His first teaching post, from 1979 to 1981, was at Oxford as a German language tutor in the History faculty.[2]

Career

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Corum became professor of Comparative Military Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Air University, Alabama. During 2005 he was both a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a visiting fellow of the Levershulme Program on the Changing Nature of War in the Department of International Politics at Oxford.[3] He was then a professor of military history in the Department of Joint and Multinational Operations at the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. In 2008 he was also an adjunct professor of military history at Austin Peay State University.[4]

From 2009 to 2014, Corum was dean of the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia.[5] From there, he became a lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford.[6]

Corum's primary speciality is air power history and he argues more in favour of integrated air power than of so-called strategic missions independent of the joint battlespace.[7]

Bibliography

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  • The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918–1940. (University Press of Kansas, 1997, ISBN 0-700-60836-2)
  • The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform (University Press of Kansas, 1992). ISBN 0-700-60541-X OCLC 25410850
  • Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War (University Press of Kansas, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7006-1598-8)
  • Airpower in Small Wars: Fighting Insurgents and Terrorists. University Press of Kansas. 2003. ISBN 0-700-61240-8. OCLC 51477066.
  • Training Indigenous Forces in Counterinsurgency: a Tale of Two Insurgencies. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. 2006. ISBN 1-584-87230-6. OCLC 66526200.
  • Fighting the War on Terror: a Counterinsurgency Strategy. Zenith Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-760-32868-2. OCLC 71243998.
  • Bad Strategies: How Great Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency (Zenith Press, 2008).

Among Corum's articles are:

Corum has been a blogger for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, writing on international affairs and military issues.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "James S. Corum: How the British Defeated Insurgents in Malaya". History News Network. 2005-02-06. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  2. ^ a b "CV James S. Corum Ph.D.", Baltic Defence College at nanopdf.com, accessed 14 July 2022
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2009-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES" (PDF). Apsu.Edu. 2008–2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  5. ^ "Dr. Augustine Meaher IV has been named the Baltic Defence College's new Dean". Baltic Defence College. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  6. ^ "James Corum". University of Salford: SEEK: Salford Environment for Expertise and Knowledge. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
  7. ^ "The Myth of Air Control Reassessing the History". 2000. Archived from the original on 2008-09-25. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  8. ^ "James Corum". Telegraph. 2012-07-16. Archived from the original on 2009-12-04. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
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