Putin's
Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos
Hardcover – May 13, 2025
by
Candace Rondeaux (Author)
The
astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world’s deadliest militia –
“a must-read for anyone interested in the future of Russia and how to counter
the Kremlin’s wars” (H. R. McMaster)
In June
2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket
launchers and set out on what seemed like a journey to take control of Moscow.
The last person to attempt such a venture was Adolf Hitler.
Wagner’s
power began from patronage, then grew from international theft and extortion,
until it was so great it exposed the weakness of Russia’s conventional military
and became a threat to the Russian state, one that was not demonstrably
eliminated until a private jet containing Wagner’s core commanders was blown up
in midair.
That
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a local criminal thug, was able to build a private army that
was on the threshold of overwhelming the world’s second largest country seems
incredible. In fact, it was inevitable following the hollowing out of the
Russian military, the creeping use of contract groups for murky foreign
missions, power struggles inside the Kremlin, and the ability of the new
militias to corner and exploit the black economy.
Told with
unique inside sourcing and expertise, Putin’s Sledgehammer is a gripping and
terrifying account of a superpower that contracted its soul to a pitiless
militia.
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