Current Trends in Adaptive Training With Military Applications: An Introduction

The U.S. military's operational and institutional training requirements continue to increase in scope and complexity; but training resources, including time, manpower, and money, are limited. Many of the solutions the military has proposed to meet these challenges depend heavily on adaptive training. The purpose of this special issue is to examine current trends in adaptive training, with a particular attention to the military environment. This article summarizes contemporary approaches and challenges to implementing adaptive training and provides an overview of the articles included in the special issue.