James Corum

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James Sterling Corum
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Main interests Military 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]

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Early life

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

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

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]

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References

  1. "James S. Corum: How the British Defeated Insurgents in Malaya". History News Network. 2005-02-06. Retrieved 2012-09-02.
  2. 1 2 "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. 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. 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.