Spoken like a perfumed prince that has no idea how complex military systems are, nor how the particular acquisition program gets delayed by too much meddling from Congress, OSD, or potshots from the other services.
"The U.S. Army's Crusader artillery program was an early casualty of the transformation initiative. The $11 billion program was cancelled last year. According to Cebrowski, any weapons program is expendable if it doesn't meet the new transformation criteria.
"(Crusader) is a legacy of industrial age warfare born to satisfy the Army's indirect fire requirements in a strategic context that no longer exists," he said. In other words, Crusader is a relic of the Cold War: too heavy, too expensive and too long in development." So the solution is to stick the Army with a 50+ year old chassis (Paladin)? This bozo doesn't know WTF he is talking about.
"The main Crusader tracked vehicle, equipped with a 150 mm howitzer [I think they mean 155mm - Cannoneer][correct - Sauropod], requires a companion vehicle to supply it with ammunition. The two vehicles weigh in at a whopping 81 tons - a lot of hardware to haul to a battle front."
This is so much used food. What would Cebrwski suggest - piles of ammunition along the side of the road for the howitzers to use?
According to the Air Force we don't need tube artillery anymore. We can just bombard and occupy, using Special Forces as body guards for ETAC's and friendly war lord troops as occupiers.