Field Artillery

This book illuminates some of the most important activities with
attendant problems, shortcomings, and achievements of the US Army Field
Artillery in Vietnam. The wide variations in terrain, supported forces,
density of cannon, friendly population, and enemy activity which
prevailed throughout South Vietnam tend to make every action and every
locale singular. Though based largely upon documents of an historical
nature and organized in a generally chronological manner, this study
does not purport to provide the precise detail of history. Its purpose
is to present an objective review of the near past in order to assure
current awareness, on the part of the Army, of the lessons we should
have learned and to foster the positive consideration of those lessons
in the formulation of appropriate operational concepts.