Daniel Marston is a Director of the SecDef, Strategic Thinkers Program, Professor at The Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International St. He possess expertise in international relations, army, counterinsurgency, command, national security and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Dr. Daniel Marston is an extremely insightful, knowledgeable, and intelligent historian. His focus on adapting historical lessons and taking a flexible pragmatic approach to solving issues trains his students to write with purpose. Dan sets very high standards but inspires you to raise the bar to meet them. His focus on a multidisciplinary approach to counterinsurgency really forces his students to take on problems from a range of perspectives including politics, culture, economics, and local traditions. Issues are approached from levels of analysis ranging from the micro to macro. From my experience studying an MA in Strategic Affairs, I found no other professor that truly instilled the degree of complexity that working in coalitions, small wars, MOOTW, and conflicts can encompass. His lectures focused on operations and strategies but more importantly, they raised awareness of other government tools in the box for addressing grievances. I truly feel that anyone making choices related PKO, nation building, or counterinsurgency operations should be consider lectures or books by Dr. Marston as prerequisite to decision making." and "Dr Marston was an outstanding professor. His ability to lead and inspire each student to dive into the study of counterinsurgency was impressive. It is because of his efforts that we as an Army now have a dedicated area of study at the Command and General Staff college focused on counterinsurgency warfare."