Artillery chiefs refuse to become irrelevant.Army officials have worried for some time that many of the troops fighting the insurgency in Iraq are losing their edge in conventional warfare Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation. The forces on each side are well-defined, and fight using weapons that primarily target the opposing army. areas such as artillery. A large number of the Army's artillery units have been retrained as military police and truck drivers, so their skills have atrophied. Maj. Gen. David C. Ralston, commander of the Army Field Artillery Center, is said to be alarmed by the fact that artillery units haven't fired a weapon in three years. In an attempt to try to make artillery relevant again, Ralston convened a group of senior officers this month in Fort Worth, Texas Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas, 18th-largest city in the United States[1], and voted one of "America’s Most Livable Communities. , to discuss how to fix the training gap, and how to preempt pre·empt or pre-empt v. pre·empt·ed, pre·empt·ing, pre·empts v.tr. 1. To appropriate, seize, or take for oneself before others. See Synonyms at appropriate. 2. a. potentially devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. funding cuts to artillery programs in upcoming budget drills at the Pentagon. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Email your comments to Serwin@ndia.org |
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