Sorry LJ,
I have to agree with Beagle on the drone score - what you are saying is that drones are really useful, and IF you lose the battle for air superiority then you rather accept that there will then be a general swatting down of your drones....
Which is okay if you have air superiority fighters that can contest that first phase, but if you do not then you are relying on a UAV force that you accept will be swatted as and when the opposition choose to do so. Which is no way to run an air war, and will rapidly lead to your losing a ground or naval war. If you head primarily into using drones then your opponent is going to go after them, especially if you have relatively few fighters and helos and transports etc anyhow. (Easier to swat fighters on the ground).
There are roles crying out for UAVs, and there are roles that still require manned aircraft - there is no reason I can imagine to prevent any and all roles eventually falling to UAV for execution as the fields of computing, comms, weapons tech and programming advance, but that's a long way off what we are capable of now.
Dave