“”””Rumsfeld tried to get rid of artillery entirely, because his “experts” told him it was obsolete.””””
It was about a wasteful 11 billion-dollar system that was right to be canceled.
You have tried to turn it into Rumsfield trying to eliminate all artillery and even gave a fake reason.
“...eventually to be augmented by a precision-guided round, as well as various planned mobile surface-to-surface rocket systems.”
sounds like the end of massed artillery fire to me.