Daniel Marston

Dr Daniel Marston, FRHistS, is a Research Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is author of the Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign, 1942-45, winner of the 2003 Field Marshal Templer Medal, and co-editor of the recent Counterinsurgency in Modern Warfare. He has served as a visiting fellow at the Multi-National Forces Iraq Counterinsurgency Center for Excellence at Taji, Iraq, and advises the British, American and Australian militaries on counterinsurgency history and doctrine. He has travelled to Iraq and Afghanistan several times over the last four years.