Posted on Jun 18, 2020
Looking for Artillery book recommendations for an LPD?
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Wanting something geared towards adversary capabilities, techniques, and the future artillery fight
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I don't think you are going to find a one size fits all for what you are looking for. There are going to be a number of articles due to the shelf life of your preferred research area. I recommend reading anything authored, coauthored, or edited by Andrew R Wilson of the Naval War College faculty with regard to all things China. He is a fluent Mandarin speaker and has done extensive work on original Sun Tzu, PLA long term strategy, and tear down analysis of white papers coming out of the PRC. You'll be able to see the role of fires and counter fires.
The other thing I'd be looking to get my hands on is anything Futures Command is looking at to see what their view of the future looks like, which will drive materiel solutions. The Pacific is going to have very blurry lines in Joint Fires and the 9 Island Ring.
NATO publications may be where you really see open source stuff on the fires environment with the Russian Federation. There will likely be rich materials on effects based operations as the Russians and their proxies are working this hard just below the threshold of arms conflict...and how hard they can push that boundary. Activities in Syria are likely proof of principle for some of what they don the future, like the PMC Wagner Group.
The other thing I'd be looking to get my hands on is anything Futures Command is looking at to see what their view of the future looks like, which will drive materiel solutions. The Pacific is going to have very blurry lines in Joint Fires and the 9 Island Ring.
NATO publications may be where you really see open source stuff on the fires environment with the Russian Federation. There will likely be rich materials on effects based operations as the Russians and their proxies are working this hard just below the threshold of arms conflict...and how hard they can push that boundary. Activities in Syria are likely proof of principle for some of what they don the future, like the PMC Wagner Group.
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LTC Jason Mackay
I also recommend getting a subscription to Field Artillery Magazine. Stay current in your branch and look at what other Fires peeps are thinking about.
All the talk about LSCO and what was called full spectrum operations, what is old becomes new again. Recommend looking at early 90s and late 80s copies of the magazine as wall as CALL CTC bulletins.
All the talk about LSCO and what was called full spectrum operations, what is old becomes new again. Recommend looking at early 90s and late 80s copies of the magazine as wall as CALL CTC bulletins.
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I'd figure anything on NLOS would be a good topic, or joint fires with newer Naval weapons.
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Gonna dogpile on LTC Mackay's point - depending on your audience and objectives, I would recommend "Musician of Mars" series from CALL. Great themes for the importance of coordination. No specific books really come to mind, but theres various staff ride/battle analyses you could reference in Civil War, WWI, WWII and Korea. Note- if this is a "one and done LPD" go for something short. Very bad idea to assign a long book. Its 2020 - and noone has time for that.
Long - if you want something thats long and painful, and a choose your own adventure for discussion (over several months) our DIVARTY read "Hell in a Very Small Place"
Medium - Bear went over the mountain
Short - Musician from Mars
Long - if you want something thats long and painful, and a choose your own adventure for discussion (over several months) our DIVARTY read "Hell in a Very Small Place"
Medium - Bear went over the mountain
Short - Musician from Mars
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