Colonel James Henry Coffman, Jr., USA is an American Army officer who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valorous conduct while serving as an advisor with the Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq attached to the Iraqi Special Police Commandos in Mosul, Iraq in 2004. A 2013 documentary created by BBC News and The Guardian implicates Coffman in a network of Shi'a units allegedly involved in death squad activities and torture.