But there have been times where the Air Force has done lots of bombing and it was ineffective.
The beaches of Normandy and plenty of islands in the Pacific were bombed by the Army Air Corp and Navy. Bombing isn’t always effective if the enemy has the right defenses.
“But there have been times where the Air Force has done lots of bombing and it was ineffective.”
Neither the Air Force nor any of the other services can do much from a distance against enemies entrenched beneath many meters of rock. However, if today’s Air Force had hit the beach at Normandy, the landing force wouldn’t have encountered much opposition. ;-)
Umm the airforce and navy are 60 some years better at hitting targets and have 60 years worth of new technology and techniques. Comparing what our Air does now with what it did in WW 2 or Vietnam or even Gulf War 1 is neither accurate nor fair.