I think it is indespensible to have capable artillery with you. There has got to be a middle ground between Air Mafia types and land based Jedi knights.
I agree that the future is going to see more and more suppression coming from air platforms but the Infantry still needs to have decent artillery.
Given the gene pool of Army Command & Control coming out of the Clinton years...the battle at Anaconda was a raging success.
There seems to be a trend towards desiring the impossible. "No American losses in battle". Saying that the lack of artillery led to what losses we did incure is an honest enough statement but the spirit behind it implies that had we had artillery there...we wouldnt have lost anyone.[?]
I cannot tell if this is a "Arty pusher" piece or a legitimate gripe. Eitherway...it was Army incompetence at fault and not future DoD dogma towards Arty.
Just chiming in.
It's neither, just 20/20 hindsight from the Center of Army's Lessons Learned (CALL). The 82nd deployed their artillery as part of their force package relieving the 101st. I just find it maddening that the powers that be didn't have the foresight to deploy land based artillery to begin with.