“Special operators may be professionals of a sort. However, until special operations designate a jurisdiction over which it has the autonomy to exercise judgment, the organization is better characterized as a bureaucracy that manages a highly skilled force.”
Host Benjamin Ordiway in conversation with professor C. Anthony Pfaff, Ph.D. of the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, to discuss his recent article in Parameters, “Professionalizing Special Operations Forces.”
We also talk a little about my ongoing work on coaching moral reasoning & ethical decision-making in field-training environments. This work is sponsored by the 1st Special Forces Command.
Benjamin Ordiway, former 92 CA and now a philosophy instructor at US military academy, interviews Dr. C. Anthony Pfaff (Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret.), who is currently the research professor for Strategy, the Military Profession and Ethics at the Strategic Studies Institute and a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Dr. Pfaff has published "Proxy War Ethics" by the Journal of National Security Law and Policy, Military Ethics below the Threshold of War, in Parameters (Vol 50, No. 3), "The Ethics of Acquiring Disruptive Military Technologies," in the Texas National Security Review (Vol. 3, No. 1), "Western and Chinese Ways of War and their Ethics," in Parameters (Vol. 52, No. 1), "The Future of US-Iraq Relations," by the Atlantic Council.
Host: Benjamin Ordiway, https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminordiway
Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-anthony-pfaff-phd-2b42349/
The One CA Podcast is a production of the Civil Affairs Association: https://www.civilaffairsassoc.org.
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176: Part II, interview with J. David Thompson
175: Part I interview with J. David Thompson
174: Direct Commissions with Heater Cotter
173: Achieving post conflict stabilization with Prof. Beatrice Heuser (Pt.2)
172: Achieving post conflict stabilization with Prof. Beatrice Heuser (Pt.1)
171 Civil Military What?
170: Combat First Aid in Ukraine by Michael Baker
169: Part II, Bas Wouters on Influence and Persuasion
168: Part I, Bas Wouters on Influence and Persuasion
167: Electronic Warfare with Michael Gudmundson
166: On Alexei Navalny and Political Dissent
165: Part II of the Courtney Mulhern and Dan Joseph interview
164: Part I, Courtney Mulhern and Dan Joseph on the book "Backpack to Rucksack"
163: Sam Cooper on China political and Economic Warfare
162: Rob Boudreau and Joel Searls
161: Curtis Fox, Part II on Russian Hybrid Warfare
160 Curtis Fox: Part I, Russian Hybrid Warfare
159: Albert Augustine and V Corps CA
158 Introducing the 1st CAG Human Dimension Podcast
157 Part II Robert Curris on Psychological Operations integration with CA and SOF
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