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Actually, if you study the first Gulf War in more detail, you will realize that Iraq C&C was intact. Before the commencement of Desert Storm, NATO conducted 30 days of intense bombing sorties. Despite these intense punitive strikes, Iraqi C&C was intact and still able to command and coordinate. It was only the ground operations that delivered the final punch to the Iraqi War Machine. Without an effective ground based operation, air strikes are at best punitive and don't degrade the ability of the enemy to reground and fightback.
In the Gulf war, the ground offensive was launched after the air war had been won by the Allies. Air Force and Navy win or lose earlier than Army. Army's fate in conventional battles usually depends on the outcome of air and naval battles.
In the eastern theater of 1971, PAF and PN lost first and PA felt it enormously difficult to continue the fight. PA then had to fight alone with IAF, IA and IN together.
In WW2, German air force and navy lost ahead of the Army. German AF went on the defensive ahead of Army. Beginning from 1944, Luftwaffe failed in stopping day and night bombing offensive of the Allies over German cities. By end 1944, German army was also on the retreat on the western front.
As the air force wins or loses first among the three services (AF, Navy and Army), it should logically be the strongest of all.