U.S. Army artillerymen with 3rd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, clear the new all-digital M119A3 105 mm lightweight howitzer at Fort Bragg, N.C., April 19, 2013. MARY KATZENBERGER/U.S. ARMY
Usetabe, we had an organization that essentially provided a brigade of artillery for every brigade of committed maneuver. Not so any more. We've developed precision munitions - needed, and great for LIC-style combat, but we've given away the store on the ability to break up a massed attack, where quantity is a quality all it's own. We essentially defaulted that mission to the AF, which will prioritize as it sees fit and when the weather suits. If I were a brigade commander facing a russian column in bad weather in the Ukraine or, say, Poland, I would really wish for a true DIVARTY (vice the C2 HQ we are resurrecting) with a buttload of DPICM vice a lot of Excalibur to shoot against moving targets - not Excalibur's forte.
So, in short, yeah, the ability to take down a grid square. The current generation doesn't understand organization for combat, nor do they have any experience in doing division-level and above fire planning (and precious little of what we Cold Warriors would recognize as Brigade-level).
Simply because they never had to. It wasn't relevant in the just ended fights after 2003 and the fall of Baghdad.
New focus on artillery training prepares Army for future conflicts.
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