Talk about private military campaigns in Russia break out at intervals several times a year. Putin about them to say something, the laws of the State Duma introduced, tovsplyvayut action PMC "Wagner" in Syria. And every time it resonates, comparable with the discovery of Saturn - wow, look, PMC! In fact,, all this talk of the poor. Subject private military campaigns is not new in Russia, and in fact they have been around for a long time.
Back in 2010, the year on all websites of recruitment agencies were posted announcement of a set in the "joint Russian-Iraqi Security Company-paid job to ensure the safety of personnel and facilities of the Russian oil company in Iraq". The conditions were gorgeous: salary of eight thousand dollars, prize, allowances, shift method - if not mistaken, months there, six months at home. requirements: high physical fitness, knowledge of English, service experience in the power structures (preferably with severe weather conditions), experience of participation in hostilities welcome. Preference is given to graduates Ryazansky Airborne School.
To recruit the company, "Bow-A" - a subsidiary of "Lukoil", Private security company, created back in the nineties veterans "Vympel". legal, in form, it CHOP, but in essence - pure PMC, especially in its segment Iraq. "Lukoil" are actively developing field "Western Qurna-2" and "Block 10", located in southern Iraq. While it is not in danger - area, LIH are controlled north - but the protection of oil development, cargo delivery, escort convoys, protection of pipelines in a country at war - a typical, absolutely chevekashnye topics.
Fire training of "Bow-A". Photo from the website
At all, Iraq currently has three Russian companies - in addition to "Lukoil", This "Gazpromneft" and "Bashneft" - and, presumably, that protection and they are also fine.
At all, This theme - the entry of Russian campaigns in Iraq, tenders and there we started winning in 2009-2010 years - to the veteran and paramilitary environment raised a considerable stir. A friend of mine, first fought in Afghanistan in the Soviet army, and then in Iraq, the US Army (the same time the states have created some sort of Foreign Legion for the possibility of obtaining a green card) earnestly do a business plan and went to the negotiations, "Lukoil", hoping to get the contract. It was very funny to watch, he competed with other such veteran something there counterterrorism, before sending people deminers on demining in Serbia and maintenance of goods to Nigeria. No, people a topic generally known and, whether we have a country with honest tenders, can, even would have any chance, but in reality things are solved entirely at other levels. As a result, one went to the Donbass himself, second, I think, supplies and people are now back.
In addition to such official poluChOPov-poluChVK, semi-military companies began to grow by leaps and bounds with the advent Somali pirates. It has been a surge of private initiative in the Russian segment of the paramilitary. properly, military companies is difficult to call these structures, because for the full deployment of the activities they lacked is precisely the legality, rather, it was a small group of like-minded, but in this market sector, Russians started coming really active. The same Wagner, You can understand how, it started in one of these structures. schemes there, usually, were simple - Weapon, not to be subject to local legislation, on board were delivered in international waters, Ships held by piratoopasny area, weapon was cleaned, ship arrives in the port of destination. properly, skein of barbed wire and heel machines, usually, quite enough for a quiet passage.
However, pilotage - is the most famous part of the piracy problem, and was the most profitable release of hostages. A friend of mine was involved in the liberation of the son of a millionaire, who wanted to go there on a yacht. Together with his boat and took. father found, that hire PMCs will be cheaper, than to pay the requested amount of Somalis. The operation was successful. However, it was composed of foreign PMCs.
Somali pirates. Reuters / Scanpix Photo
Another one of my friends is quite tightly and for a long time worked in Iraqi Kurdistan. All the same - protection, cargo wiring, escort convoys. There was the easiest: gray area, laws do not apply, weapons - as the sand.
So that semi-legal military commissar in the country existed before, "Wagner". Under Article mercenarism all went, of course, but nonetheless.
But really this movement unfolded, certainly, in the Donbas and in Syria.
The most interesting, what, despite this is almost officially created structure (anyway, I think, There are no doubt, that the customer in this case is the state) laws of PMCs as there was, or not. Putin acts-acts, kyvayut heads-kyvayut, and the bill as a lay, and lies.
Submit it to the State Duma has already twice - last in December last year - but he has not accepted.
properly, it is understandable: to whom this law is needed something ... Who do care about the laws in Russia? There is an article of the mercenaries, but the whole Donbass flooded with "volunteers" - so what? No law of PMCs, and they are full-Palmyra storm - so what? Even if it was the law - no one person, not associated with the government, whether he was an officer superfood special units, super professional and a veteran of all wars, create your PMCs are not able, in principle,. For the simple reason, that the scope of this license will FSB. Well, and then everything is clear. Therefore, there are such shadow type structure Wagner, that with authority and the FSB "Vasya, Vasya", get, actually, state contracts and sending men to fight for the throne of Bashar Assad.
Any left-handed people in this business are not allowed and will not be allowed ever.
Laws Give them another. he.
Judging by, about division Wagner wrote "Fontanka", it is the opposite - PMC only in form, and not in fact. Private military companies are not army. They are more sharpened to perform specific professional tasks, than to storm cities. These tasks closer to their goals of sabotage and reconnaissance groups. In carrying out these tasks, they try their best to use tactics and technologies. Just because, what "yes, it is expensive, but somehow even more expensive.
From this point of view - again, judging solely on the written - a division of Wagner is not a private military campaign, and private motorized infantry battalion. Anti-tank and grenade launcher squads, communication company, medrota - the same structure.
The same attitude to people. Quick to learn basic skills on the range, and forth to war, work contract.
All this is completely integrated in our modern way of doing business.
Just Sobyanin for our money puts tile, and Wagner - people. That makes all the difference.
But people like.
place is worth.
Funeral Alexey Brain. Фото AFP / Scanpix
But if rumors, that brain and Batman in the Donbas were eliminated as people from PMC Wagner are true, it is much closer to an understanding of the activities of such structures polusumerechnyh.
With an army in this case difficult. The military is still a very well developed system of "friend or foe". Its harder to motivate their shooting.
With mercenaries, who do not know the name of the neighbor on the bed, In this sense, much easier. properly, supposed, that PMCs ideal is precisely because of this - somewhere protected object, somewhere to capture the object. Somewhere conduct convoy, somewhere dolbanut convoy. Somewhere release hostages, somewhere to take hostage. Somewhere save someone, and somewhere someone to bang.
generally,, whether a country Russia, having a normal state, which is a normal strategy in the military sector and in the field of foreign policy, we would have a good chance to become a world leader in the market of private military companies. In Russia there are all. All data. That's just all.
And two of our most important resource - poverty and war.
Serbs after the recent Balkan wars now constitute the core of most obezbashennym any PMCs, and in the Russian Kalashnikov rifle is now also in the mentality of. We belligerent countries. We are a country with virtually free of human life. We are a country with a ready and kill, and die young male population. In Russia, full of people, ready to perform tasks as hired warriors. Just an inexhaustible resource. Resources for its own Silicon Valley we have, Well, that does not work we have to Skolkovo ... is not ... And with private armies would go just to cheer. Although the divisions are formed.
And while you can dump, like in any other segment of the economy.
In a poor country for two or three thousand dollars you can get people, ready to storm Palmyra even with a can opener in hand, refusing insurance, from medical payments, from referring to themselves, and on their own behalf on the cross.
Someone sends worldwide economists and engineers, we also could send around the world of mercenaries.
Klondike!
And the word "mercenary" I do not see any negative values. agree, how much better to send people a war of their own choice for good money and with insurance, than eighteen boys under duress or by using misting brain. Where as ethically grown men fight, than children.
Personally, I support the idea of PMCs with both hands. This military strategy of the future. There, where the state does not want to participate in the implementation of tasks directly, it can participate by PMC. To perform the tasks of gray in a gray legal area has only two tools - special forces and PMCs. A gray areas will long. Unfortunately, the modern world is. And if Russia in the future wants to become a global power (at the moment it is in fact such is not), it can not have their own interests in the global world politics. And PMC - is a unique instrument of world expansion through symbiosis military and economic strategy.
The soldiers of "Bow-A". Photo from the website.
If we talk about some ideal Russia, where there is a state, which has its own development strategy, the ability to predict the future government, work laws, and everything is done in the mind - that is, of a spherical horse in a vacuum - the entire Gulf of Aden would speak today in Russian. And a leading player in Russia were in the region.
And on a par with China and the United States to Africa would have walked in and Russia. For where military companies, protecting private business resource extraction, supported by the state, It was nepugannyh market. Foreign policy should be done that way. The regions need to enter that way. And not by othvatyvaniya unnecessary occupation of the peninsula and the depressed region of the tank column.
But the continent is almost completely lost - China will not winkle out.
And "Lukoil", instead of a possible ten deposits develops only two.
But it is when it comes to, as it could be, if it would be so, as it should be on the mind.
It can be done. At the state corporation has turned out as in Iraq more or less adequately. It may happen, and not from corporations. It would be the desire and political will. I've seen enough people, and burning it, and ready to do it, and able to do it. they just do not want to do it illegally. They do not want to walk all the time under Article. So the desire to eat. And the will - not very. Because it goes against the interests of the current state. Because no private armed militias - that is, it was the military campaign, near-state rather than private armies - in this country can not exist.
This requires entrepreneurial freedom, independence of the judiciary, a complete shake-up of the FSB, possession of weapons, corruption and the destruction of all other country ....
As a result, and there is something well, very much a hybrid, performing tasks such as state like as private methods.
So - so long as there is, as it is. And it shall come, as will.
Well, Our hot Palmyra.
And thanks for that.
A source: http://spektr.press/vau-smotrite-chvk-kak-rabotayut-chastnye-voennye-kompanii-rossii/
