Foreword by Sean McFate

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Chapter 1: Private Armies

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Chapter 2: From Russia with Love: Mercenaries Fit the Bill

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Chapter 3: Russian Grey Is the New Black

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Chapter 4: Mercenaries' Russian Roulette

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Chapter 5: Private Security with Chinese Characteristics: No More Local Guards, Not Yet Wolf Warriors

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Chapter 6: Defending the Belt and Road Initiative from Africa to the Middle East

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Chapter 7: How China Sees Its Own Private Security Sector

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Chapter 8: The Evolution of a New Chinese Security Actor

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Chapter 9: Turkey's New Janissaries

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Chapter 10: Drone Mercenaries: A New Security Paradigm from China, Russia, and Turkey

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Chapter 11: Drone Warfare: Lessons Learned?

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Chapter 12: Drone Casus Belli

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Chapter 13: Cyber Mercenaries: From Boots on the Ground to the Metaverse

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Chapter 14: Two Opposites: None-Combatant Contractors and Jihadist Mercenaries

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Chapter 15: Mercenaries, PMSCs, and the Future of Warfare

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Appendix I: From Mercenary to Cyber-Mercenary: A Timeline

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Appendix II: The Duma and Russian PMSCs

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Appendix III: The Evolution of Chinese Private Security Laws and Regulations and the Data Security Law

 

Notes

 

Bibliography

 

Index