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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'<ref>[http://www.companyreports.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/04-11-2008/0004791248&EDATE=FRI+Apr+11+2008,+05:39+PM New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention] NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ </ref>, but seems to have jobs in four continents.  He:
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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'<ref>[http://www.companyreports.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/04-11-2008/0004791248&EDATE=FRI+Apr+11+2008,+05:39+PM New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention] NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ </ref>, 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'<ref>[http://www.companyreports.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/04-11-2008/0004791248&EDATE=FRI+Apr+11+2008,+05:39+PM New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention] NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ </ref>(Though Oxford University says he 'was' at Sandhurst).<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>;  
 
*is reported on 11 April 2008 by his publishers as a 'Senior Lecturer in War Studies at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst'<ref>[http://www.companyreports.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/04-11-2008/0004791248&EDATE=FRI+Apr+11+2008,+05:39+PM New Book Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare Provides Case Studies for Combating Insurgents Receives National Review Attention] NEW YORK, April 11 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ </ref>(Though Oxford University says he 'was' at Sandhurst).<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>;  
 
*Dr. Marston will be a 'Visiting Research Fellow with the [[Changing Character of War Programme]] for the 2007/8 academic year'.<ref>[http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk/people/bios/marston.asp Dr. Daniel Marston Research Fellow, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre Australian National University]</ref>  
 
*Dr. Marston will be a 'Visiting Research Fellow with the [[Changing Character of War Programme]] for the 2007/8 academic year'.<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 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>
 
: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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==Affiliations==
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*KCL [[Insurgency Research Group]] member<ref>http://kingsofwar.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/new-book-on-coin/</ref>
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==

Latest revision as of 07:34, 30 June 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]

Affiliations

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

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