70. An unlikely teacher: What Wagner Group learned from ISIS

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Jun 06, 2023•27 min

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The Russian private army known as the Wagner Group is trying to persuade young men to join the fight in Ukraine. Their online recruitment efforts don’t just hint at the future of modern warfare: they’re a callback to an earlier time, when a group called ISIS lured young men to fight in Syria.

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