VII Corps Artillery in Multi-Domain Operations

Abstract

During WWII and the Persian Gulf War, the US Army synchronized operational fires from the land, air, and maritime domains during Large-Scale Combat Operations. The mechanism was the corps artillery, the single organization with the requisite authority, capability, and capacity to do so. Inadvertently, historical accounts of both conflicts primarily focus on the corps as a whole and do not evaluate the impact of its subordinate corps artillery. Consequently, as the Army prepares to employ Multi-Domain Operations beyond 2028, its operational fires capability is non-existent. Inactivation of the corps artillery to provide manpower for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan removed all means. Hence, this study conducts a comparison of VII Corps Artillery during LSCO to inform the future of Army multi-domain operational fires. Furthermore, the empirical evidence examined supports this monograph's thesis that peer threats dictate that the Army must establish the Operational Fires Command or expanded corps artillery.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 23, 2019
Accession Number
AD1083654

Entities

People

  • Kevin M. Shouse

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Ammunition
  • Artillery Units
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Howitzers
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Multi-Domain Operations
  • Second World War
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Marksmanship and Weaponry.