[gondramB]

>>His entire air defense system would be obliterated within an hour or two by a combination of cruise missiles, JDAMs, long range naval gunfire, and HARM missiles.<<

I'm not a military guy but wasn't the lesson of Desert Storm that the important thing isn't the individual pieces but the rather the whole system that decides the battle?

[COEXERJ145]

If I understand what you're saying, then yes. If you destroy the C&C centers, the effectiveness of the system is greatly reduced. One drawback to Soviet/Russian air defense systems is their very integrated C&C system. We knocked out much of the Iraqi C&C system with CALCM's on the first night of the war.