One of the fastest growing technological deployments across diverse domains is of three-dimensional printing (3DP), with precision and time saving as two major attractive parameters for its application across various domains. The last three decades have witnessed increasing applicability of additive manufacturing, 3D Printing technology (3DP), solid free form fabrication, and layered manufacturing, across diverse sectors of industrial, commercial, art, and engineering. Yet, one of the least permeated domains by 3DP technology remains to be military engineering and defence application for crisis management. It is of paramount importance to collate the literature as presented in the paper as a status quo of the 3DP technology and their applicability for military engineering and crisis time deployment for capitalizing on time saving feature and precision feature owing to associated high risk and sensitive nature of military engineering applications. It is imperative that the concepts covered in the below paper be further researched for defence applicability, and lessons learned by few case studies where 3DP have been used for military engineering.