>>Whoever controls the high ground controls the engagement. The first thing we’ve done in every war since WWII is establish air superiority.<<
You didn’t serve in Korea or Nam, did you?
I think in those wars the general mindset was “don’t fight back too hard”. For the most part they were defensive wars, which is a bad strategy. We never really took the wars home to the enemy. But we still maintained a level of air superiority over what we considered friendly territory.