Tartare,
Not an unreasonable perspective but, if I might make so bold, it's one that's overly influenced by recent 'discretionary' punch ups, where the adversary has not had the ability to fight back in the air.
Air-air and surface-air fights don't happen at a significant level when the fight is being fought in an asymmetric fashion. In a 'war of scale' it's not clear (to me at least) that any one side would be able to exercise power from the air with freedom, and so capturing and maintaining control of the ground may well fall to ground forces - which wouldn't be pretty with modern technology.
War is a human activity because it results from human needs, fears and desires. Consequently I think there will always be a need to exert power on the ground, from the ground.
Just an opinion.
Sun.