Abstract
This conceptual background paper examines how AI-supported military decision-making has evolved, and what theoretical response can be given to the fact that Meaningful Human Control (MHC) no longer adequately covers the normative (socio-ethical) challenges of today's distributed, multi-level AI-supported decision architectures.
The document provides a review spanning from classical military decision-making (Clausewitz; IHL; command responsibility) through the Human-in-the-Loop paradigm to the two defining approaches to MHC, supplemented by the characteristics of the current AI environment. Building on this, it proposes an original theoretical construct: the concept of Legitimate Decision Authority (LDA)...