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I get it: the US strategy of dominating in the air means their normal ground troops should never be facing an enemy air offensive at all, which makes Stinger-type missiles largely useless to them.

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I think that depends in the enemy amd battlefield. Combating China from Taiwan for example, I doubt US Navy can take out all Chinese fighters.

China can't even reliably see the F22, and probably can't lock their missiles onto an F35.

How are they supposed to fight against invisible air-superiority fighters (F22) and nearly-invisible multi-role Fighters? (F35) ?

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The worry with China is their missile forces, not their air force. The Chinese missiles have a chance at wrecking the USA's Aircraft Carriers.

Air-to-air combat yeah but I was talking about Chinese bombers/fighters targeting land targets in Taiwan and heading back home safely to mainland China before Taiwan/US jets intercept them in time. They have a lot of capable jets and US has good short range missile defense tech.

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