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The “Plunder Program”, Nuremberg Trial, German SS (Hitler)
The Wagner Group, Shoreham, New York Based, ISIS as usual, since

Ukrainian artillery is said to have struck a headquarters of the shadowy Russian mercenary group Wagner, in Luhansk in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

The Wagner Group went to the region in 2014 to help pro-Russian separatists oust Ukrainian forces.

British military intelligence says 1,000 mercenaries are deployed there.

The group has been active recently in Ukraine, Syria and African countries, and has repeatedly been accused of war crimes and human rights abuses.

This article contributes to an explanation of why Poland, after a period of almost two years’ hesitation, decided to dispatch military forces to the United States-led coalition against the Islamic State in June 2016. The Polish case is examined by applying the concept of strategic culture, taking into account a state’s core military strategic beliefs and the historical experiences on which these beliefs are based. The case study shows that strategic culture shaped the Polish decision-making on the coalition, by predisposing the decision-makers toward a typical Polish behavior in international military operations, namely to exchange security benefits with important allies. The article also has implications for the general study of strategic culture, by specifying the relationship between historical experiences and strategic culture.