The Army's B-2 Bomber - Field Artillery Modernization
Abstract
In the case of field artillery we continue down the path of the past by justifying the need for expensive artillery systems based on the need to destroy massed tank and infantry formations. With the changing nature of warfare in the 21st Century we must have the courage to question whether the requirement for a new field artillery gun that provides high rates of generally inaccurate fire is valid. Here we fail. Rather than doing a fundamental assessment of our key 21st Century warfighting needs precision strike and rapid mobility we continue to justify old Cold War type ideas. We are following the Air Force model of continuing to justify buying a system, the B-2 bomber, long after the world changed and its requirement disappeared. The Army needs to consider that given the changed conditions in the world is it maybe not time to retire cannon artillery to the museum just as we did with the cavalry horse and the air defense gun system Sgt. York?
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA363364
Entities
People
- John P. Weinzettle
Organizations
- United States Army War College