I'm not a fan of a lot of the assumptions and hand-waves deployed in this article. As soon as we get out of theory land and start talking about the artillery fi

I'm not a fan of a lot of the assumptions and hand-waves deployed in this article. As soon as we get out of theory land and start talking about the artillery fight, things start getting weird. Both the soviets and the US prioritized SPGs, mobility, networking with their artillery. It's just that the soviets and now the Russians had/have a lot more of it at all organizational levels. M777 is a US towed gun at use right now in Ukraine to great effect. He talked a ton about DPICM. A weapon that the US signed a treaty against using and Russia uses constantly. He talked about mass vs precision and speed. Russia has highly networked and automated their artillery killchain. They can go from intelligence gathering to rockets/rounds leaving the barrel in minutes sometimes with very minimal human involvement. This was all the talk since 2014 when Russia started obliterating entire Ukranian battalions with MRLS strikes guided by UAS. The US Army has been talking about an artillery gap, an IRBM gap. This isn't because they're worried about ineffectual ww1 style barrages against static positions, it's because they're worried about highly accurate, lighting fast fire strikes deep into our rear against targets of opportunity, guided by an advanced network of UAS, ELINT, counter battery radars etc. This is why they spent millions sticking an absurdly long barrel into the already ship-of-Theseus style hodge podge of upgrades that is the M109... It's because they've seen pictures from 2014/2015 that look like the highway of death, with roads littered with destroyed vehicles with burnt bloated bodies hanging out of trees. Now lets get down to the real real. Us rapid reaction forces in Europe, in the baltics mostly consist of light and medium brigades using towed guns anyway. Stryker and airborne units. its just the further from theorycrafting to reality, the more out of touch the article becomes. m109 and msta are PEER weapons m1 and T80b, t80bvm, t90b3, t90a are PEER weapons if you like it or not they share the same general features, accuracy, armor, mobility. Differences in their doctrine and TOE are more important and completly missed in this article. >cut down any combination of human waves and simple tank attacks the soviets could manage THE US COPIED THE ENTIRE CONCEPT of operational art from the soviets. Airland battle doctrine was a direct reaction to the fact that the soviet conception of land warfare was operating on a mental level an entire echelon above NATOs tactical obsession. You can argue the pro's and cons of each doctrine, its implementation, levels of training and equipment efficiency for either side you prefer. But 'human wave and simple tank attacks' is just vastly misinformed.