EFFECTS OF PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS ON CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN GRAND STRATEGY OBJECTIVES

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Author(s)Zoe Byer-Wein
Date Accessioned2025-07-29T21:28:02Z
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Publication Date2025-05
AbstractThe Wagner Group, Russia's premier private military outfit, defined Russian grand strategy doctrine for over a decade acting on the behalf of the Kremlin. After the fiery end of the Wagner Group as a private actor following an attempted mutiny in 2023 on the Kremlin by the group's leader, Evgeny Prigozhin, scholars and Russia-watchers around the world documented the vast myriad of effects that the Wagner group has had on proxies and regions of interest abroad. However, the use of Wagner contractors has also had a remarkable impact on Russia itself. In this paper I argue that Russia's pervasive use of the Wagner Group and semi-state contractors has been one of the biggest weaknesses of contemporary Russian grand strategy, and that even Wagner's marginal wins in a few of these proxies have contributed to the failure or stalling of other Russian objectives in the same states. Despite the mutiny ending Prigozhin's tenure as Wagner's leader, the group is still active in everything but name, and will affect how Russia conducts grand strategy in the future.
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PublisherUniversity of Delaware
TitleEFFECTS OF PRIVATE MILITARY CONTRACTORS ON CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN GRAND STRATEGY OBJECTIVES
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