War, Business and ‘Hybrid’ Warfare: The Case of the Wagner Private Military Company (Part Two)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 15 Issue: 61
By: Sergey Sukhankin
April 23, 2018 06:11 PM Age: 1 week
(Source: eaworldview.com)
*To read Part One, please click here.
On March 28, Russian media presented information that members of the Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner may have been spotted in the East Ghouta region (southwestern Syria), coordinating a “normalization of the post-war situation.†The same sources also claimed that Wagner forces are currently involved in fighting on the side of Omar al-Bashir in South Sudan (Lenta.ru, March 28). This information might have crucial meaning in ascertaining both the actual and prospective tasks performed by Wagner versus other Russian PMCs (see Part One, EDM, April 19).
Indeed, Wagner is by no means a trivial example of an ordinary Russian PMC: its composition, command and control (C2), and actual tasks performed make it distinctive from a standard PMC, whose prime undertakings generally boil down to “combat support†missions—not carrying out military operations.
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