What, Why and When? A Review of the Key Issues in the Development and Deployment of Military Human‑Machine Teams

This paper will serve as a springboard for understanding to what extent HMT is a realistic, useful and operationalisable framework to conceptualise future human-machine interactions in the military domain. It is structured in three parts. Part 1 will provide an overview of the literature and discussions surrounding the issue, both in academic and defence settings. Part 2 will analyse how the specificities of the military domain complicate, alter and possibly aggravate many of the already existing unresolved issues surrounding the desire to team humans with machines. Lastly, Part 3 will delve into some recommendations.