Jonathan Deer is a graduate of Arizona State’s Masters in Global Security. In 2020, Jonathan joined the Center on the Future of War as an open source research intern. During this role he has collected information and monitored pro-russian PMSC activity online. Using the collected information to geolocate images posted online and analyze observations about online PMSC activity. He has also worked to create link and flow analysis about PMSCs and organizations that are linked to the online PMSC activity.
One of the most notorious battalions of the secretive and deadly Wagner Group appeared to suggest it was prepping to return to Ukraine, raising the prospect of a Russian assault.
