This paper focuses on how AI has influenced military technology and how new ideas are enhancing these effects for the military, contributing to the development of this constantly progressing area. AI is not the improvement of the current technologies in military systems but a change in paradigm on how such systems should be developed, employed, and managed. Using a structural approach, this study assesses how AI advances are providing complete autonomy of systems’ decision-making processes, shifting long-held military conceptions and approaches. The paper also comprises the concrete cases and examples of using AI in modern operation context, proving thus its applicability to the real-life situations. Therefore, our analysis is not restricted to the sphere of computer science only but also includes aspects of military tactics and international relations so that we gain a future-oriented outlook on possible or emerging tendencies. This inclusive analysis demonstrates how technology and strategy are intertwined and focusing on this interplay is very useful for any researcher, policy maker or a military planner. In line with the previous studies, our analysis in this paper highlights the innovative role that AI plays in enhancing the capabilities of modern warfare, stressing its current and possible impacts in the future.