David Malet
Associate professor and researcher focused on foreign fighter recruitment, insurgency, and transnational conflict dynamics; author of Foreign Fighters: Transnational Identity in Civil Conflicts.
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Jan 24, 2026 • 43min
Foreign Fighters in War
Colin Freeman, British journalist who reported from conflict zones and wrote about Ukraine’s foreign volunteers. Dr. David Malet, scholar of foreign fighter recruitment and transnational conflict. They trace a long history of foreign fighters, explore varied motivations from mercenary pay to ideological calling, compare recruitment tactics across theaters, and debate the mixed battlefield effects and policy implications.
