[buwaya]

I understood that the divisions sent north in Iraq were deliberately short of part of their organic artillery and had no corps-level artillery. This was to make them lighter and impose a smaller logistics burden. The artillery units were available, just not deployed.

[68skylark]

I think that what GreyFriar was trying to say is that Army and USMC artillery is badly out of date compared to enemy artillery becuase of the short range of our systems. I don't think he was saying we need more tubes, but that we need longer range capabilities. (Please correct me if I'm making the wrong interpretation.)

I've been an artilleryman myself. For me, it's a little hard to understand why we don't simply buy some foreign designs that have the capabilities we need -- that's what our enemies are doing.

[GreyFriar]

You are correct the 3rd ID and the Marine Division were sent with only their organic artillery, which was not enough, especially when they train to fight with corps assests providing additional fire.