{"id":12258,"date":"2023-11-24T02:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T02:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12258"},"modified":"2023-11-24T02:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T02:43:58","slug":"for-250-years-us-troops-could-tow-their-cannons-around-the-battlefield-the-war-in-ukraine-shows-they-wont-have-that-luxury-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12258","title":{"rendered":"For 250 years, US troops could tow their cannons around the battlefield. The war in Ukraine shows they won&#8217;t have that luxury in the future."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;As the Ukraine war has proven, the effectiveness of artillery rests on more than its range or the destructive power of its shells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mobility of a howitzer \u2014 its capacity to &#8220;shoot and scoot&#8221; \u2014 can make the difference between living to fight another day and being destroyed by the enemy. That&#8217;s why the US Army is pondering whether hauling guns by truck is still a viable option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For towed artillery, &#8220;10- or 15-minute displacement time is not going to work against a good enemy,&#8221; Gen. James Rainey, head of US Army Futures Command, told reporters at the Association of the United States Army&#8217;s annual conference, held this month in Washington DC.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/250-years-us-troops-could-221701057.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/250-years-us-troops-could-221701057.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As the Ukraine war has proven, the effectiveness of artillery rests on more than its range or the destructive power of its shells.<br \/>\nThe mobility of a howitzer \u2014 its capacity to &#8220;shoot and scoot&#8221; \u2014 can make the difference between living to fight another day and being destroyed by the enemy. That&#8217;s why the US Army is pondering whether hauling guns by truck is still a viable option.<\/p>\n<p>For towed artillery, &#8220;10- or 15-minute displacement time is not going to work against a good enemy,&#8221; Gen. James Rainey, head of US Army Futures Command, told reporters at the Association of the United States Army&#8217;s annual conference, held this month in Washington DC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/250-years-us-troops-could-221701057.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1651,1985,552,924,728,1545,259,315,311,158,1055],"class_list":["post-12258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-artillery","tag-cannons","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-invasion","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12259,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12258\/revisions\/12259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}