Dr. Adam C Cobb, is Professor of International Relations, United States Marine Corps, Command and Staff College.

Formerly Associate Professor of Strategy, USAF Air War College, Dr Cobb writes and teaches courses on strategy, Asia Pacific security, energy security and irregular warfare. In 2007 Professor Cobb won a Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, to write on strategic issues. He was also invited to a Visiting Professorship at the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) at the Army War College (PA) to write a monograph on Indonesia in the GWOT. In late 2007, he was a panelist in the peace building Tswalu Process in South Africa.

Professor Cobb has testified before the US China Economic and Security Review Commission. Prior to joining Air War College in 2005, Dr Cobb held a number of positions in government and the private sector. He was director of a think tank in Sydney, Australia; Special-Director Strategic Policy, Royal Australian Air Force HQ; Senior Defense Adviser, Australian Parliament; on the Congressional Liaison staff of the Australian Embassy in Washington DC; and on the staff of a US Representative. Dr Cobb studied as a Midshipman at the Britannia Royal Naval College (Dartmouth, UK), and received a B.A. at Sydney University (including exchange semesters at UC Berkeley and UT Austin), an M.A. at the Australian National University and a Ph.D. at St John’s College, Cambridge University, where he read History under the supervision of Professor Sir Harry (FH) Hinsley (the Official Historian of British Intelligence).