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.

Foreword David D. McKiernan, General (Retired), U.S. ArmyChapter One: Introduction: The Threat Finance Cell J. Edward ConwayChapter Two: Intelligence Analysis: An Operator's Perspective Colonel Clayton O. Sheffield, U.S. ArmyChapter Three: Where Counterinsurgency Meets Counter Threat Finance Brian A. GordonChapter Four: From People to Processes: Collecting Intelligence That Matters David M. Blum & Brian A. GordonChapter Five: Al-Qa'ida in Iraq's Financial Ledgers Benjamin Bahney and Howard J. ShatzChapter Six: Cost Accounting: Auditing the Taliban in Helmand Province, Afghanistan Brian A. Gordon and J. Edward ConwayChapter Seven: Using Financial Data to Analyze Terrorist Motivations: The Case of Al-Qa'ida in Iraq's Payrolls Benjamin Bahney and Howard J. ShatzChapter Eight: Social Network Analysis: Understanding Threat Financial Networks David M. Blum and Brian A. GordonChapter Nine: Scenario Planning: The "Master" of Spin Boldak and The Chaman Border Crossing David Blum and J. Edward ConwayChapter Ten: Decision Analysis: Rank-Ordering Members of the Insurgent Group As'aib Ahl al-Haqq J. Edward ConwayChapter Eleven: Designing Courses of Action: From Problem-setting to Problem-solving J. Edward ConwayChapter Twelve: Conclusion J. Edward Conway and David Blum