James Sterling Corum is an American air power historian and scholar of counter-insurgency.
[2] His first teaching post, from 1979 to 1981, was at Oxford as a German language tutor in the History faculty.
[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.
[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.