Dr James Sterling Corum (BA, Gonzaga University; MA, Brown University; MLitt, Oxford University; PhD, Queen’s University) is an American air power historian and authority on counter-insurgency.
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Corum has been Dean of the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia since January 2009. He is also Adjunct Professor of Military History at Austin Peay State University.[1] He was formerly Professor of Military History in the Department of Joint and Multinational Operations at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. Previously he was Professor of Comparative Military Studies at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Air University, Alabama. During 2005 he was both a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University and a visiting Fellow of the Levershulme Program on the Changing Nature of War, Department of International Politics, Oxford University.[2]
Dr 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.[3] He also writes on counterinsurgency. He is a retired lieutenant colonel in the US Army Reserve.[4] His books include: "The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940", "The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform" and "Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War" and "Bad Strategies: How Great Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency (Zenith Press, 2008). Among Corum's many articles is: "To stop them on the beaches: Luftwaffe Operations against the Allied Landings in Italy," Air Power Review, Vol. 7 No. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 47-68. Dr. Corum is a blogger for the British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, writing on international affairs and military issues.[5]
His political orientation can best be described as conservative. Dr. Corum was born in Paris France, grew up in San Francisco California. He is a Roman Catholic. He lives in Tartu, Estonia with his adopted son Tommy and wife Lynn Corum.
Dr Corum has completed courses at military staff colleges, including:
1998 Air War College
1994 United States Army Command and General Staff College
1994 Air Command and Staff College
1990 US Army Ordnance Officer Advanced Course
1984 First Army Combat Intelligence Operations Course, Ft. Bragg NC
1977 Intelligence Officers Course and Tactical/Strategic Intelligence Officers’ course