Daniel Marston

Daniel Marston is the Director of the Strategic Thinkers Program (STP) and Professor of War and Strategy at ASU. He was previously the SAIS Distinguished Professor of Military History and Strategy at Johns Hopkins University, 2018–2026. From 2012–2018, he held a Professorship in War and Society at the Australian National University and was also the Principal of the Military and Defense Studies Program at the Australian Command & Staff College in Canberra. He held the Ike Skelton Distinguished Chair in the Art of War at the US Army Command and General Staff College and was a Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has been a Visiting Fellow, on multiple occasions, with the Changing Character of War Program at the University of Oxford. Since 2004, he has been a special advisor in the US, UK, Australia, Iraq, and Afghanistan with the US Army, USMC, Australian Army, and British Army.

Marston has published widely on war and strategy from the 18th century to the present, including several prize-winning books. The 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 Field Marshal Templer Medal Book Prize (Best in British/Empire and Commonwealth military history) in 2003. The second volume, The Indian Army and the End of the Raj, was Runner Up for the Templer Medal in 2014. The third and final volume, 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army, co-authored with Professor Raymond Callahan, won the Templer Medal Book Prize in 2021.

Marston completed his doctorate as the Beit Research Scholar in Imperial and Commonwealth History at Balliol College, Oxford University. He received a BA (Honours) and MA from McGill University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.