{"id":740842,"date":"2022-07-12T05:56:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=248813"},"modified":"2022-07-12T05:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T05:56:33","slug":"mercenaries-today-the-wagner-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/12\/mercenaries-today-the-wagner-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercenaries Today: The Wagner Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, substantial military operations have been conducted by mercenaries, ranging from professional soldiers hired to fight wars for European potentates in the 14th century to the combat forces of Blackwater, a private company employed by the U.S. government to undertake violent activities in the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d of the early 21st century. Today,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/12\/mercenaries-today-the-wagner-group\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/12\/mercenaries-today-the-wagner-group\/\">Mercenaries Today: The Wagner Group<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/12\/mercenaries-today-the-wagner-group\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, substantial military operations have been conducted by mercenaries, ranging from professional soldiers hired to fight wars for European potentates in the 14th century to the combat forces of Blackwater, a private company employed by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740843,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740842\/revisions\/740843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}