Kassarine - without enough air superiority fighters or next-generation stealth aircraft that can take out current generation mobile SAMs, you can have all the tankers or airlift you want - but you won't have them long. Do the terms permissive or semi-permissive environment mean anything to you - because that's the only environments those aircraft can fly in.

Unfortunately, we have to plan for all the possibilities from asymmetric to total warfare. We only need so many B-2's because we would only use that asset to strike so many targets. An air superiority fighter, on the other hand, would likely face hundreds of aircraft in a worst-case example. Remember that our Army has been able to operate without worry of enemy air attack since the Korean war, and their continued success depends on that record continuing. The same goes for our logistics tail, also.

It's funny how you seem to be willing to equate 100 B-1's to 100 F-22's, having no consideration of their missions or the how numerous their respective target sets may be.