Daniel Marston

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', 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'(Though Oxford University says he 'was' at Sandhurst).;
• Dr. Marston will be a 'Visiting Research Fellow with the Changing Character of War Programme for the 2007/8 academic year'.
• 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'.;
• a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.

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.

Affiliations

• KCL Insurgency Research Group member

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