Do the U.S. Field Artillery's Current Doctrine, Training, and Leadership/Education Domains Allow Cannon Units to Establish and Maintain Firing Capability in a Degraded, Denied, and Disrupted Space Operating Environment?

Abstract

After nearly two decades of the U.S. Military fighting in the Global War on Terror, the focus in training was for low-intensity conflict, counterinsurgency, and stability operations. Many U.S. Field Artillery units performed firebase operations with the focus on precision munitions and the digital systems associated with howitzers due to increased speed and accuracy. Many Field Artillery units performed non-standard mission sets leading to atrophy in core competencies and degraded operations. During the same two decades, peer adversaries like Russia and North Korea increased material and technological capabilities that create a degraded, disrupted, or denied space operating environment, which poses a severe threat to the digital systems that the U.S. Field Artillery has grown comfortable utilizing. This thesis seeks to answer, "Do the U.S. Field Artillery's current doctrine, training, and leadership/education domains allow cannon units to establish and maintain firing capability in a degraded, denied, and disrupted space operating environment?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 12, 2020
Accession Number
AD1124453

Entities

People

  • Robert T. Blackman

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Ammunition
  • Artillery
  • Artillery Fire
  • Artillery Units
  • Combat Operations
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Communications
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Employment
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Governments
  • Indirect Fire
  • Military History
  • Military Science
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Students
  • Training
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Military Science
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space