Lethal strikes without human approval : military AI without a human in the loop

 The Financial Times has the story (the explanation quoted below reflects the clarity of the reasoning):

UK military looks at allowing lethal strikes without human approval  by Charles Clover

"Current UK military policy, published in 2022, said there would be “context-appropriate human involvement” in the selection and engagement of targets. Following rapid advances in drone warfare, some officials are pushing for human involvement to be optional. 

"Al Carns, the armed forces minister, indicated that there might be exceptional circumstances in which machines made targeting decisions for themselves. 

“I always say there must be a human in the loop. But you must have the ability to take the human out of the loop when required, because our adversaries won’t care about having a human in the loop,” Carns told the FT.