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*a Research Fellow at the [[Strategic and Defence Studies Centre]] at the Australian National University.<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>
 
*a Research Fellow at the [[Strategic and Defence Studies Centre]] at the Australian National University.<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>
  
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==Teaching counterinsurgency to the Western military==
 
A biographical note on the [[Oxford University]] [[Changing Character of War Programme]] website states:
 
A biographical note on the [[Oxford University]] [[Changing Character of War Programme]] website states:
  
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:Daniel Marston is a Research Fellow at the [[Strategic and Defence Studies Centre]] at the Australian National University. He has focused on the topic of how armies learn and reform as a central theme in his academic research. His first book Phoenix from the Ashes, an in-depth assessment of how the British/Indian Army turned defeat into victory in the Burma campaign of the Second World War, won the Templer Medal Book Prize in 2003. His article “Lost and Found in the Jungle: The Indian Army and British Army Tactical Doctrines for Burma, 1943-45 and Malaya, 1948-1960” (published in Big Wars and Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century, edited by Hew Strachan) expanded this enquiry to British counter-insurgency tactics in the Malayan Emergency. He was a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]]. 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.
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: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.<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>
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: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.<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>
 
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==

Revision as of 10:42, 3 May 2008

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

  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
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