superiority

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The doctrine aims not merely at air superiority but at air supremacy -- the difference between having an advantage in the air versus total dominance of an airspace.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

One major question for the U.S. is whether it could establish air superiority in a potential conflict with China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

Given the technological superiority, intelligence capabilities and advanced military hardware of the US and Israel, it would be naive to think Iranian strategists were planning for a straightforward battlefield victory.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

That has allowed the U.S. to establish “localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower,” Caine said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Everything Will could see spoke of wealth and power, the sort of informal settled superiority that some upper-class English people still took for granted.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman