Thanks for your post.
Carry your line of thinking a step further, and we can do away with the Army with its tanks and other vehicles. Easy pickings from the air. No need for the Army or Navy (with the exception of its submarines) and its Marine Corps, all easy targets on land and sea, all we need is an Air Force. Right?
Sorry, I don’t buy it. All that high tech stuff doesn’t preclude boots on the ground, ships at sea.
It’s great to fly sorties until there is no base to RTB to, because they’ve been overrun by an enemy infantry.
My point is that the modern battlefield between two technologically sophisticated combatants on land, sea and the air will be an unimaginable, heretofore never seen horror. In 1910 no one thought the carnage of the Civil War would ever be repeated. eg 50,000 dead at Antietam in little more than a day. Then Europeans discovered what the new technology of the day wrought, machine guns, airplanes and tanks. Millions died. WW II even worse. Today’s electronics, satellites, precision targeting, drones, missiles, lasers etc will result in horrors that few now imagine. Simply hope there will never be such a conflict.