Easy Street,
Perhaps Libya was the exception, and modern air power is actually more like Iraq and Afghan where the critical tasks have been air mobility, air assault, strat/Tac lift, ISTAR and CAS? Not as glamorous as air combat but more prevalent. The problem we have is convincing people to carry on investing in a DCA/OCA capability (at great expense) when, apart from the odd Q intercept, it's not heavily used - and certainly not as media friendly as a MERT documentary or, sadly, a repatriation. One day we will need the high end stuff again, but if we over focus on it we risk being ambushed by our sister services for displaying an obsession with FJ at the expense of everything else. Control of the Air remains sacrosanct, but perhaps we, as an organisation need to raise our game re the other, less sexy, roles as they are seen as more important day to day.