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The US's deployments to the desert are primarily ground forces. The Air Force and Navy have PLENTY of assets around the rest of the world, especially air-to-air. Iraq didnt even launch a fighter when we invaded, so there isnt much of an air threat there.
I want to preface this by saying I have no idea what the US plans for such a thing would be, but if I were doing the planning stealth attacks or even a bunch of cruise missiles to take out the high-threat SAMs, then more conventional assets to mop up.
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