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Ah, I see.
So what protects them?
The stupid people? Their overwhelming numbers! ;)
How does air superiority protect you? Is that the question? It reliably does, the fact that modern empires are too chickenshit/stupid to use it correctly doesn't mean it doesn't work.
http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/vietnam/AP40.htm
I am now confused.
It sounds like you are saying:
a) conventional air superiority is a reliable way of being left alone by barbarians, and
b) a credible deadman-switch doomsday device is the only way to be left alone by barbarians
I also believe:
c) conventional air superiority is not a credible deadman-switch doomsday device,
It seems that at least one of those statements must be false.
there are two types of barbarians, the kind that take a nuke seriously (current nation states) and the kind that are just insane. You use conventional means against the latter. you get supplied with conventional means by the former.