Bad Strategies How Major Powers Fail in Counterinsurgency

Urgent lessons to be learnt from past failures in fighting insurgents

          Retired army officer James S. Corum, PhD, associate professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in the Department of Joint and Multinational Operations at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, was recently a visiting fellow at Oxford University's All Souls College.  While serving as a professor at the Air University Corum developed and taught the course “Terrorism and Small Wars.”  He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Strategic Studies and Airpower Journal and the author of four books and more than fifty articles.  Corum lives near Ft. Leavenworth with his family in Lansing, Kansas.