Can Robot Planes Save the Air Force?

If it’s bloody dogfights versus the Red Chinese over the Taiwan Strait that represent our Air Force’s future, then we’re probably right to invest so heavily in speedy, stealthy, expensive manned fighters — even if the budgetary picture for these airplanes looks worse by the day.
But if counter-insurgency fights are the way ahead, then maybe, just maybe, drone airplanes can rescue the Air Force from budgetary and obsolescence meltdown.