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:

• is reported on 11 April 2008 by his publishers as a 'Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst'^[2](Though Oxford University says he 'was' at Sandhurst).^[3];
• Dr. Marston will be a 'Visiting Research Fellow with the Changing Character of War Programme for the 2007/8 academic year'.^[4]
• In January and February 2008 'he worked as a visiting fellow at the United States Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center of Excellence in Iraq, where he briefed marines on counterinsurgency fundamentals and historical case studies for incoming battalions'.^[5];
• a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.^[6]

Contents 1 Teaching counterinsurgency to the Western military 2 Affiliations 3 Publications 4 Notes

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]

Affiliations

• KCL Insurgency Research Group member^[8]

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

1. ↑ New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
2. ↑ New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
3. ↑ Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University
4. ↑ Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University
5. ↑ New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
6. ↑ Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University
7. ↑ Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University
8. ↑ http://kingsofwar.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/new-book-on-coin/