The recent Breaking Defense response to Lt Gen David Deptula's "Altitude Is Not Strategy" article critiques an argument he never makes while advancing a more consequential claim: that recent conflicts require a reconsideration of foundational airpower theory. The authors contend that persistent adversary strategic effects, proliferating low-altitude threats, and emerging technologies expose deficiencies in enduring concepts such as air superiority and justifying new frameworks, including the "air littoral."