Death is our business
Guns for Hire8 Heinä 2025

Death is our business

Send Alia a Text Message Alia is joined by John Lechner to discuss his new book, Death is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare. They chat about the Wagner Group’s soft power strategy in Africa including films and beauty pageants, and its corresponding popularity in places like the Central African Republic, its patterns of recruitment, and how its mercenaries are already “bringing the war home” to Russia. John also reflects on his own experiences interviewing do...

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What's Charlie Sheen got to do with it?

What's Charlie Sheen got to do with it?

Send Alia a Text Message In episode nine of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi speaks with the Russia analyst Sergey Sukhankin about the 2019 arrest in Libya of the Wagner Group political op...

28 Marras 20231h 2min

Prosecuting the Wagner Group

Prosecuting the Wagner Group

Send Alia a Text Message Lawfare is the use of legal systems for strategic advantage. One of its pioneers, the international human rights lawyer Jason McCue, joins host Alia Brahimi on episode eight o...

26 Loka 202347min

Tracking mercenaries

Tracking mercenaries

Send Alia a Text Message As humans share more of their experiences online for the world to see, the blank zones are shrinking. In episode seven of the Guns for Hire podcast, host Alia Brahimi is joine...

21 Syys 202337min

Semtex teddy bear: The mercenary build-up in Libya

Semtex teddy bear: The mercenary build-up in Libya

Send Alia a Text Message Host Alia Brahimi is joined by the Libyan security expert and Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow Emadeddin Badi. They discuss the surge of African, Syrian and Russian ...

24 Elo 202348min

Mercenary bloodline: The war in Sudan

Mercenary bloodline: The war in Sudan

Send Alia a Text Message In this bumper episode on the war in Sudan, host Alia Brahimi speaks with the former US government expert on Sudan, Cameron Hudson, about the mercenary pedigree of the Rapid S...

6 Heinä 20231h 6min

“What just happened?” The Wagner Group mutiny

“What just happened?” The Wagner Group mutiny

Send Alia a Text Message Host Alia Brahimi speaks with renowned Russia expert Mark Galeotti about the striking developments which saw mutinous mercenary forces from the Wagner Group take over two Russ...

30 Kesä 202340min

What's so bad about mercenaries?

What's so bad about mercenaries?

Send Alia a Text Message Alia is joined by the philosopher Professor Tony Coady, who examines the key characteristics of mercenaries, including the motivation for private gain. They discuss the Geneva...

30 Touko 202338min

What Russian mercenaries tell us about Russia

What Russian mercenaries tell us about Russia

Send Alia a Text Message Host Alia Brahimi talks to the Russian defense analyst Dr Pavel Luzin about what the proliferation of Russian mercenaries abroad tells us about Russia at home. They explore th...

27 Huhti 202350min

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