base your entire military doctrine around air superiority

fight the other former superpower that also knows this and therefore has world leading air defence

???
all my tanks broke

There’s gotta be like 100 US STRATCOM guys shitting, pissing, screaming about this exact scenario to no avail as they keep sending more equipment that gets owned by a by some late 70s soviet stockpile shit with an accountable value of “Wait, why do we still have this?”