Counterterrorism and threat finance analysis during wartime / edited by David Blum and J. Edward Conway, forward by David D. Mckierman.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Blum, David, editor.
• Conway, J. Edward, editor.
• John Penman Wood Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Terrorism--Finance.
• Terrorism--Finance--Prevention.
• Intelligence service--Methodology.
• Intelligence service.
• Methodology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 211 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2016]

Summary:

This book details the intellectual and bureaucratic challenges that intelligence analysts disrupting terrorist and insurgent finances encounter. Each chapter uses analytic methods via a case study drawn from the real experiences of intelligence analysts deployed to Iraq and/or Afghanistan to support live military operations.

Contents:

• Introduction : the threat finance cell / J. Edward Conway
• Intelligence analysis : an operator's perspective / Colonel Clayton O. Sheffield
• Where counterinsurgency meets counter threat finance / Brian A. Gordon
• From people to processes : collecting intelligence that matters / David M. Blum & Brian A. Gordon
• Al-Qaida in Iraq's financial ledgers / Benjamin Bahney and Howard J. Shatz
• Cost accounting : auditing the Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan / Brian A. Gordon and J. Edward Conway
• Using financial data to analyze terrorist motivations : the case of al-Qaida in Iraq's payrolls / Benjamin Bahney and Howard J. Shatz
• Social network analysis : understanding threat financial networks / David M. Blum and Brian A. Gordon
• Scenario planning : the "master" of Spin Boldak and the Chaman border crossing / David Blum and J. Edward Conway
• Decision analysis : rank-ordering members of the insurgent group Asaib Ahl al-Haqq / J. Edward Conway
• Designing courses of action : from problem-setting to problem-solving / J. Edward Conway.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Fund.

ISBN:

• 9781498509916
• 1498509916

OCLC:

961003981

Publisher Number:

99973421782

Online:

The John Penman Wood Fund Home Page