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To: AdmSmith

More about Wagner and their likely involvement in the killing of 2 reporters.

https://theins.ru/politika/112326


114 posted on 08/05/2018 8:35:35 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: gandalftb; familyop; BeauBo

Wagner: A closer look at Russian private security and military enterprise.

Wagner partners with the Russian military for issues of transportation and logistics, similarly to their western counterparts. However, in both Ukraine and Syria members of Wagner served at times to augment Russian and/or local forces or have served as an “elite infantry“, in direct-action operations, not merely as advisors or trainers. Wagner is also reported to suffer unusually high numbers of casualties for a PMC, which suggests that in some theaters Wagner serves in primarily a combat role, rather than less hazardous non-combat tasks like training and advising.

In CAR and perhaps in Libya, Wagner’s primary mission appears to be the extraction of mineral wealth, securing arms deals, and training local specialist forces, rather than pursuing discernable foreign policy objectives in line with those of their country of origin. This differentiation is important when considering the role of the aforementioned western PMCs, who typically do not operate as independently as Wagner seems to, but are more closely bound to national objectives.

https://www.offiziere.ch/?p=34979


117 posted on 01/07/2019 12:02:02 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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