What's Trending

Welcome to the "What's Trending" section of the U.S. Army Field Artillery Professional Bulletin. Explore these articles to deepen your understanding of modern fires integration, learn innovative TTPs for delivering timely and accurate effects on the battlefield, and gain insights into the future of long-range precision fires. The knowledge shared here is designed to directly enhance your lethality and effectiveness, ensuring you are prepared to support maneuver commanders and dominate in any operational environment.

Improving Corps Deep Fires: NATO’s Innovations for U.S. Forces 7/21/2026

NATO experimentation is reshaping corps deep fires for large‐scale combat. Lessons from Ukraine highlight new concepts—corps‐level JAGICs, airspace battle manage...

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Survive to Fight: Operationalize the Drone Fight in Modern Field Artillery Operations 7/14/2026

This article examines how evolving drone threats are reshaping Field Artillery operations, arguing that HIMARS units must prioritize signature management, concea...

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Engineering Resilient Fire Support in LSCO: Electromagnetic Warfare Considerations 7/16/2026

Discover how the fires enterprise can engineer a more survivable architecture to maintain responsive, accurate fire support within a heavily contested electromag...

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The 3P’s: Observations for BN S-3’s from the NTC 7/14/2026

NTC observations for Field Artillery Battalion S-3s highlight the “3 P’s”—People, Products and Processes—as the foundation of effective operations. Well-trained ...

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Literacy in Artificial Intelligence: The Need for Creating Literacy in AI and Large Language Models in Army Professional Military Education 6/28/2026

As AI reshapes military operations, Army leaders face a growing literacy gap. A proposed Professional Military Education framework would build AI and large langu...

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The Law of War and You: Not Just for Academics, Eggheads, and JAGs Pt. 2 6/23/2026

U.S. forces are shifting away from restrictive counterinsurgency rules toward more permissive, law‑of‑war–based operations. Fires officers must adapt through tra...

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The Law of War and You: Not Just for Academics, Eggheads, and JAGs, PT. 1 6/23/2026

Fires officers must master the law of war to make rapid, high-stakes decisions in modern combat. As battlefields grow faster and more urban, leaders must apply p...

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AI as a Staff Instrument: Lessons from a Shadow Staff 6/23/2026

AI-enabled "Shadow Staff" teams helped military students simulate Blue Staff, Red Staff, and White Cell functions, accelerating planning, wargaming, and adjudica...

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Reforming Army Badge Programs: Fostering Award Alignment with a Vision of Competency, Readiness, and Lethality 5/31/2026

This article examines the need to reform U.S. Army badge programs by introducing recurring validation and recertification to ensure skills remain current, credib...

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Difficult Steps 5/31/2026

SSG Betts confronts the Army's silent crisis: NCOs are breaking under impossible expectations with inadequate tools. With more service members lost to suicide th...

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Some Who Wander, Are Lost: Why DA PAM 600-3 (and 600-25) are Required for Counseling and Self-Development 6/9/2026

Career paths are not one-size-fits-all. Using DA PAM 600-3 and 600-25 in counseling and self-development ensures leaders understand assignments, education, and o...

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The Crossroad of Convergence: Future Sustainment of Long-Range Artillery 5/26/2026

Long-range artillery effectiveness depends as much on sustainment as on fires. Persistent force-structure reductions have left field artillery brigades reliant o...

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Reactive Counterfire: Why? 5/26/2026

Modern artillery moves too fast for traditional reactive counterfire. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine, the article argues for a shift to custody-based, proactive...

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Preliminary Observations: JLTV-Mounted Q-50 Innovation Efforts 5/26/2026

Preliminary Army testing compares JLTV- and HMMWV-mounted Q‑50 radar systems, finding gains in mobility, survivability, communications, and endurance with the JL...

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The Way Forward 4/27/2026

Suicide has claimed more service members than two decades of war. An NCO-led, cost-free prevention model shifts action upstream—training leaders and peers to spo...

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