Emerging DoD Role in the Interagency Counter Threat Finance Mission
Abstract
In a period of increased economic austerity and fiscal limitations, the United States must shrewdly engage beyond the comfortable boundaries of military force and employ the full arsenal of diplomatic, informational, military, and economic (DIME) power to track, monitor, exploit, and disrupt threats to national security. This paper looks beyond the use of conventional military forces to combat terrorism and leverages the capabilities of the interagency to detect, deter, disrupt, and destroy terrorists and those supporting terrorism by targeting their financial resources. It examines the historical challenges of using counter-threat finance methods in neutralizing threats to U.S. national security; outlines the pertinent U.S. policies that enable the United States to support economic sanctions, protect its financial systems from money laundering, and conduct counter-threat finance (CTF) targeting against terrorists and those supporting terrorist activities; identifies recent efforts to target terrorist financial networks through a comprehensive interagency approach; and examines the potential role of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) in interagency CTF efforts to counter terrorist threats.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 14, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA560988
Entities
People
- Jennifer E. Carter
Organizations
- United States Army War College