{"id":11180,"date":"2022-11-03T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2022-11-04T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:29:11","slug":"army-fires-capabilities-for-2025-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=11180","title":{"rendered":"Army fires capabilities for 2025 and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Este informe de la organizaci\u00f3n RAND documenta la investigaci\u00f3n y el an\u00e1lisis realizados como parte de un proyecto titulado\u00a0“Apoyo de Fuego para el Ej\u00e9rcito 2025”, patrocinado por la Escuela de Artiller\u00eda de Campa\u00f1a en Fort Sill, parte del Comando de Entrenamiento y Doctrina del Ej\u00e9rcito de EEUU. El prop\u00f3sito de este proyecto fue proporcionar una evaluaci\u00f3n independiente de las capacidades de fuego que necesitar\u00e1 el Ej\u00e9rcito, desde el nivel del equipo de combate de brigada hasta los escalones por encima de la divisi\u00f3n, en futuras operaciones de maniobras de armas combinadas convencionales para el 2025 y m\u00e1s all\u00e1. Asimismo trata de determinar opciones para cumplir con estas misiones de fuego, tanto org\u00e1nicas del Ej\u00e9rcito como de los sistemas conjuntos. La evaluaci\u00f3n incluye el apoyo directo, las misiones de largo alcance, los fuegos de contrabater\u00eda, y los requisitos asociados de adquisici\u00f3n de blancos y temas relacionados al comando. Si bien fue publicado en 2019, es interesante compararlo con las operaciones actuales en la guerra en Ucrania, dado que en todo el reporte los drones son apenas mencionados una s\u00f3la vez y s\u00f3lo con un rol de adquisici\u00f3n de blancos, no considerando el rol preponderante en misiones de todo tipo con que han sido empleados en este conflicto como tambi\u00e9n en el de Nagorno-Karabakh en 2020.<\/p>\n

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From early 2002 until early 2016, the Army focused primarily on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations, and the field artillery branch saw considerable reduction of its force structure and a commensurate cut in modernization funding. By late 2016, aggressive moves by Russia against Crimea and Ukraine, fear of Russian coercion against the Baltic nations, an expanding Iranian military, and rapidly growing Chinese military capabilities had contributed to a change in focus, and the Army was in the process of reorienting back to conventional combat against the armed forces of another nation-state. This shift highlighted the need to take a detailed look at the state of the field artillery, long a key branch of the service when conventional combat capabilities are required.<\/p>\n

This study focused on examining the types of capabilities that Army field artillery will need in future operations from the present into the early 2030s. The authors examined several illustrative scenarios to determine the threats that field artillery units will encounter and the types of missions the artillery will be expected to perform in the future. The authors identify the types of capability gaps that may be present in today’s field artillery and recommend courses of action that the Army might take to fill those gaps and better prepare the artillery for future missions. Because virtually all operations today are joint, the study also examined the current and emerging capabilities of the other services, and the authors’ recommendations on how to improve Army field artillery take into account what the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps can contribute in terms of air-to-ground and surface-to-surface fires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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