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The key to the success of a military operation rests in its planning. NATO’s planning activities are conducted in accordance with the operations planning process (OPP) and implemented by so called operations planning groups (OPG). The pace of technological progress has a dramatic impact on the way the planning process in the military is conducted. In this context, advances in sensor systems and artificial intelligence (AI) play a major role. The leading militaries already use AI-driven tools assisting different steps and phases of planning. The same militaries have also already allocated significant budgets to advance AI research and to develop AI assets, such as automated weapon systems and automated planning assistants. However, the real explosion of AI research and AI assets is yet to pragmatize. From a different perspective, planning-wise AI is frequently viewed as a potential tool to assist human operators. Notably, advances in AI might lead to the introduction of personal planning assistants, endowed with capacities unmatched with those of human operators. These developments weigh on the OPP. The objective of this chapter is to examine how and to what extent.
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The author wishes to thank Dr. Anna Visvizi for the comments, ideas and corrections that facilitated the realization of this chapter, and to Dr. Zoltán Jobbágy for drawing the author’s attention to this opportunity.
Disclaimer: It is important to stress that the statements and conclusions are the author’s own and do not reflect official views of either the NATO or other national militaries.
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Fazekas, F. (2021). AI and Military Operations’ Planning. In: Visvizi, A., Bodziany, M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Its Contexts. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88972-2_6
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