Incorporating AI into Military Decision Making: An Experiment

The Integrated Course of Action Critiquing and Elaboration System (ICCES) integrated several available technologies based largely on AI techniques, ranging from machine-understandable course-of-action representations entered via sketching and constrained natural language to interleaved adversarial planning and scheduling. The experiment involved comparing processes and products of military decision making with and without the decision aids. The results alleviated concerns about potential negative impacts of such tools on the creative aspects of the art of war, showed potential for dramatic time savings during MDMP, and confirmed the technologies' maturity and suitability for near-future deployment.