The future is now. Drone assassination had become a common tactic for killing suspected. The tactic is pretty effective and it will not go away, no matter with or without AI.
The strategy is a dragon seed. Every collateral drone strike breeds resentment for generations. The chickens will come home to roost. (But then the MIC can sell even more weapons, so I guess everything will be fine.)
Currently the drone operators experience PTSD from loitering over targets for hours, but with increased automation, maybe someone won’t even have to look at the images. Just “authenticate” a strike based on weighed parameters. War can be made much more streamlined yet.
I rather believe other factors are at play and we have peaceful times despite drone strikes.