By Sean McFate, co-author of Shadow War: A Tom Locke Novel Sean McFate is a former paratrooper in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and private military contractor—mercenary to some ...

On who becomes a mercenary “Almost all of them are [former military members]. So I spent several years in the industry and I got out when I realized that there are no old people in my industry.

We all know the difference between a mercenary and a soldier. Right?Mercenaries are the "dogs of war" - "freebooters" or ...

Mercenary companies are private armies that can conduct autonomous military campaigns, offensive operations, and force projection. At present, there are no large mercenary firms, but they have ...

In the Republic of Mali, a mercenary of the private military company (PMC) Wagner, a former coach of Russian boxer Oleksandr ...

A recent archaeological dig in western Germany revealed a Roman-era settlement with 750 artifacts, including a unique burial ...

Russia’s military intelligence agency has developed new pipelines for deploying mercenaries to Ukraine, according to an ...

People in military uniform, claiming to be soldiers of the Russian mercenary group known as the Wagner Group and its head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, pose for a picture believed to be in a salt mine in ...

The chief of the Wagner Group mercenary army continued his ongoing rift with Russia's military establishment on Tuesday, claiming that his troops had single-handedly won a hard-fought victory in ...

Mercenary leader launched a failed rebellion against Russia's military leaders NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Sean McFate, an expert on mercenary groups, about the power of the Wagner Group, and the ...

There’s a growing rift at the top of the Russian government between Vladimir Putin’s official military and the off-the-books mercenary force that has achieved some gains for Russia in Ukraine.

The leader of the mercenary outfit that spearheaded Russia’s capture of the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut said his soldiers will refuse to join Russia’s regular forces. Wagner Group founder ...