Daniel Marston, BA, MA (McGill University), PhD (Oxon)
Research Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Biographical Statement

Daniel Marston is a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, a Visiting Fellow at the Changing Character of War Program at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has also served as a Visiting Fellow at the United States Army and United States Marine Corps COIN Center for Excellence in Taji, Iraq. 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 examination 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 most recent work, co-edited with Carter Malkasian, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, was published in 2008 and includes discussion of current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has lectured widely on the principles and historical practices of counter-insurgency to units and formations of the American, Australian, British and Canadian armed forces in and out of theatre, as well as serving as an adviser for all of the above. Dr Marston is currently engaged in research into the lessons of counterinsurgency for the Australian and British armies from the 1960s to the present.

Key Publications

• Spring 2011 (forthcoming), The Indian Army and Partition: Decolonising the Subcontinent, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Autumn 2009 (forthcoming); 'Rock in an Angry Sea: The Indian Army and Partition', War in History
• April 2008, Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare, (ed.), Oxford: Osprey Publishing
• December 2006, Military History of India and South Asia: From the East India Company to the Nuclear Era, (ed.), Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers
• May 2005, Pacific War Companion, (ed.), Oxford: Osprey Publishing
• October 2003, Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers