Daniel Marston

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Daniel Marston is a counterinsurgency theorist who in 2007 was one of a team of four lead by Col. Alexander Alderson charged with revising the British Army's counterinsurgency handbook. marston reportedly lives 'outside of Boston, Massachusetts'[1], but seems to have jobs in four continents. He:

Teaching counterinsurgency to the Western military

A biographical note on the Oxford University Changing Character of War Programme website states:

Dr Marston was responsible for overseeing the counter-insurgency modules for Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Field Army. He has lectured widely on the principles and practices of counter-insurgency to units of the American, Australian, British and Canadian armed forces, as well as serving as a reviewer of and contributor to counter-insurgency doctrine for all of the above. Dr Marston is currently engaged in research into the lessons of counter-insurgency for the Australian and British armies from the 1960s to the present.[7]

Publications

  • Seven Years War, Routledge, 2001
  • French and Indian War, Routledge, 2002
  • American Revolution, Routledge, 2002
  • Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army and the Burma Campaign, Praeger, 2003
  • Pacific War Companion, Osprey, 2005
  • A Military History of India and South Asia, edited with Chandar Sundraham, Praeger, 2007
  • Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare by Daniel Marston, Carter Malkasian 304 pages, Publisher: Osprey Publishing (10 April 2008) ISBN-10: 1846032814, ISBN-13: 978-1846032813

Notes