This conversation with Candace Rondaux, of Frontline Atlas and the author of Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos, and Christopher Faulkner, of the Naval War College and Moscow's Mercenaries: The Rise and Fall of the Wagner Group, on curious career of the Wager Group and on the role of mercenaries in general within the Russian military and in Russian foreign policy.