Persistent-loitering ground support would be one idea. Keeping air support hanging around for ground forces is a big problem, and "more is better" is essentiall

Persistent-loitering ground support would be one idea. Keeping air support hanging around for ground forces is a big problem, and "more is better" is essentially the order of the day. So your enemy gets to have a problem: if they do nothing, then you rain close-air down with impunity for your ground forces. But if you start shooting at drones with all your high-tech missiles, you're both spending a lot more per kill then they are per loss, and giving away the location and position of your ground-based anti-air assets (as well as forcing them to commit their high tech anti-air assets to the offensive - and they have pretty limited AA payloads). People need to stop thinking in terms of single-branch military, because the order of the day for any modern military is combined arms - air power is in support of some objective, not "just because".