The expansion of Chinese PMSCs signals a structural transformation in how security is bought, sold, and aligned with state interests across the globe.

Examining the role of the Wagner Group in Central African Republic, a theater often cited as a success for the Russian private military company.

Beijing is taking a more active role in the Myanmar civil war by deploying a private security company to protect Chinese investments in the country.

Russian PMCs have helped the Kremlin expand its global alliances and secure critical minerals, and all at a relatively low cost. They will remain a feature of Russian foreign policy unless countered by Washington.

The Sudan civil war is increasingly drawing in extra-regional powers and spilling its borders, imperiling the stability of vulnerable states in the region.

From the covert to the overt, the Kremlin’s Expeditionary Corps is taking over Wagner’s global operations.

The fight between two private security contractors – Bancroft and Wagner – for leverage in the Central African Republic is the perfect distillation of wider US-Russia geopolitical competition in Africa.

Wagner is stepping in to support to Niger junta just as regional support for a strategy of concerted pressure shows signs of fizzling out.

Contrary to much of the commentary surrounding the event, the outcome of the Prigozhin mutiny actually shows resiliency, not weakness, in the Putin apparatus.

Though nominally a mercenary organization, there’s a strong case to be made for a Wagner Group terrorist designation.

First in a two-part series, this backgrounder traces the origins and earliest deployments of Russia’s infamous mercenary outfit: the Wagner Group.

After initial deployments in Ukraine and Syria, the African continent has become the main theater for Wagner Group operations.

Russia’s loss could be the United States’ gain when it comes to mercenary operations in Africa.