[egarvue]

Col. Mike Hiemstra, the Center's director, said it would be "a legitimate conclusion" to assume that, had there been a battery of howitzers on the Anaconda battlefield, the guns could have shut down al-Qaida mortars that inflicted most of the roughly two-dozen U.S. casualties on the first day of battle.

I'm just a lowly civillian, but I figured this out too. Where the heck was our artillery? A few hits from even the most generic of our artillery could have blown those sand monkeys off the mountains, and at a cheaper cost than risking our tankbusting Apaches. This is not to say that I'm not proud of our troops - but some of their commanders need to get their head out into the fresh air.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

For comments on lack of artillery and other lessons learned check the recent articles on the Miltech list!

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[Seydlitz]

The USAF has convinced Rumsfeld that field artillery is a thing of the past. Why use reliable and proven weapons platforms when you can use whiz-bang techno-gagdets?

[chudogg]

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