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

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

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 and 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.

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.