“I wonder where the specialized tooling for the 155mm artillery shells (and cluster bomblets) ended up.”
Probably China, or sold as scrap.
Rumsfeld tried to get rid of artillery entirely, because his “experts” told him it was obsolete.
Despite the fact that every peer War starting with WW1, land based artillery creates 60-80 percent of all casualties.
In Ukraine it is at least 80 percent.
Rumsfeld wanted to get rid of all artillery or just the Crusader Weapon System?