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www.ANSER.org Biography
A retired Army Logistician now at Analytic Services Inc. (ANSER), Mr. Hamon spent his career in public service in security and international affairs. He recently completed secondment as Chief of Policy and Strategy Studies of the "in-house think tank" within the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), supporting DoD and the interagency. He served as Regional Director of Strategy and Planning for Office of the Secretary of Defense, African Affairs, and has worked in the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping and with UN Humanitarian Organizations in the areas of operational policies, planning, logistics, and civil-military cooperation. As an ANSER analyst he worked on a variety of projects related to emerging and non-traditional threats. Mr. Hamon consults for working groups including UNFPA Security Sector WG, CIA State Failure WG, and Threat Reduction in new NATO countries WG. He serves as a strategic advisor to OSD and the US Navy on the HIV/AIDS prevention program for militaries and conducts research on HIV/AIDS in military forces. He is married with two children and resides in Stafford, Virginia.

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Session SP21/SP22:
Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop it
February 19, 9:00 - 10:45 New Infantry in the Global War on Terror
Abstract:
Over the past 50 years, the term "war" has become diluted and has led to confusion as to the overall level of effort and the urgent need to deter, prevent, and defeat terrorists. Although there should be no doubt as to the overall objective of this conflict--that being absolute victory--everything must de done to end the scourge of terrorism. If there is a historic precedent for the term "war" similar to its usage in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) it is the Cold War, during which there were occasional "hot" conflicts but where the "war" was much bigger than the military conflict. The Cold War was an all-encompassing international effort that spanned more than forty years during which all of the elements of national and international power were employed.

One such effort currently undervalued as a tactic is the concentration of like-minded governments and international organizations to stop terror financing and dry up the illicit flows of money fueling terrorist and terror organizations. To accomplish this international commerce and national governments must recruit and train a future workforce of financial intelligence analysts. To do this properly there must be universal recognition that this workforce is in fact foot soldiers serving on the front lines of this scourge.