The Army Wants Bigger Guns and Longer-Range Rockets to Catch up with Russia
Sebastien Roblin [2]
The memoirs of German soldiers in World War II often disparaged American troops by complaining that they were quick to call down heavy artillery bombardments when the going got tough. This peculiar insult underscores how liberal employment of relatively fast-reacting and accurate artillery fires were once thought of as part of the “American way of war.â€
However, air power has supplanted artillery in recent decades. Compared to jets, it can take weeks to deploy heavy self-propelled artillery systems across the globe, and they demand significant logistical capacity in the field. Furthermore, the revolution in precision-guided weapons gave air power the potential to be a more precise form of warfare, with greater effectiveness for each munition released and less potential for collateral damage.
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