James S. Corum

James Sterling Corum (* 1947 ) is an American military historian.

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After 28 years in the United States Army , where he served in Iraq in 2004 , he retired as a lieutenant colonel.

He holds an MA from Brown University , a Master of Letters from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. at Queen's University in Canada. In 2005 he was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University and then Professor at Command and General Staff College , Fort Leavenworth , Kansas.

Since January 2009 he has been dean of the Baltic Defense Academy in Tartu , Estonia .

He has authored dozens of book chapters and magazine articles on military history and counterinsurgency .

The Luftwaffe: Creating the Operational Air War, 1918-1940 . University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1997, ISBN 0700609628 .
The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform , University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 1992, ISBN 070060541X .
Wolfram von Richthofen: Master of the German Air War. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2008, ISBN 978-0-7006-1598-8 .
Training Indigenous Forces in Counterinsurgency: a Tale of Two Insurgencies , 2006, ISBN 1-584-87230-6 .
Quelling the Beast: A Counterinsurgency Strategy for America , 2006.
(Ed.) Rearming Germany. Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-20317-4 .
(Ed.) The Second World War and the Baltic States. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-631-65303-6 .

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SURNAME	Corum, James S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Corum, James Sterling
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American military historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1947