Automatedplanning within the scope of middle level echelondecision makingprocessesis beginningto receive increasedresearchattentionin an attemptto reducethe size of the supportstaff neededto conductlarge scale command andstaff trainingexercises.In orderto better understandthe issues involved, the requirementsfor this domainwill be outlinedandcurrent plannertechnologieswill be evaluated withrespectto theserequirements.Theartificial intelligence technique of Context-Based Reasoning will also be discussedas it appliesto this domain.