Air power is transitory. There is a reason why attacks were called air raids. An air raid has the ability to degrade and inconvenance, but by its nature it cannot last more the moment of impact and detonation. To have combat persisting power you have to have troops and equipment that can occupy and dominate an area.

Mao's theory of revolutionary warfare which relied on a raiding strategy still called for a point where there would be a general uprising that overwhelmed the enemy and allowed his forces to dominate an area.

The US effort in Afghanistan in concert with the Northern Alliance was actually and accelerated application of the revolutionary warfare theory.

It is the transitory nature of air power that makes it unable to cut lines of communication or control ground battle space. Combined arms operations are going to continue to be the most effective way to dominate and control a battle space.