History, Structure and Management of Private-State Military Groups— Legionnaires and Wagnerians
History, Structure and Management of Private-State Military Groups— Legionnaires and Wagnerians

Summary/Abstract: The article contains considerations on the organisational, on the creation, functioning and management of illegal armedforces remaining outside the official control of the state — private military companies (PMCs)2 but also informal groups suchas the Wagner Group, which has an extremely unclear status. The text consists of three main parts. The first explains the conceptof ‘mercenary’ in international public law, the second describes the first modern mercenary group, the French Foreign Legion, andthe third provides information on the Wagner Group, a private Russian mercenary army. The text includes an introduction anda summary. The main purpose of the article is to present the origins, essence and methods of operation of the French Foreign Legionand the Wagner Group in the context of national, international and even global security. It further intends to show the reader theextremely illegal and criminal practice of modern mercenaries using extremely brutal, and sometimes even atavistic violence

• Details
• Contents