[4][5] The mission of the Field Artillery is to destroy, defeat, or disrupt the enemy with integrated fires to enable maneuver commanders to dominate in unified land operations.

[6] The Field Artillery is one of the Army's combat arms, traditionally one of the three major branches (with Infantry and Armor).

It refers to those units that use artillery weapons systems to deliver surface-to-surface long range indirect fire.

Conflicts in the 20th century saw artillery become exponentially more effective as indirect fire methods were introduced immediately prior to World War I.

[11] This disorganized Field Artillery occasioned a boardroom bloodletting in December 1917 after the entry of the US into the First World War in April 1917 proved that the Quartermaster General of the United States Army Henry Granville Sharpe was unfit for this purpose.

Snow was appointed to the unofficial post of Chief of Field Artillery in February 1918.

He served until retiring in 1927, and oversaw the artillery branch's postwar reorganization, including the beginning of testing and experimentation to determine how to transition from horse drawn equipment to mechanized, and modernize processes for directing and controlling indirect fire to improve speed and accuracy.

[10] From 1920 to 1942, the Field Artillery corps was led by a branch chief who held the rank of major general.

[13] This was in keeping with the Army's other major branches, including infantry, cavalry, and coast artillery.

[10] Each chief was responsible for planning and overseeing execution of training, equipping, and manning within his branch.

[10] The branch chief positions were eliminated in 1942, and their functions consolidated under the commander of the Army Ground Forces as a way to end inter-branch rivalries and enable synchronized and coordinated activities as part of World War II's combined arms doctrine.

[a] LRPF appears to be a According to AFC, the mission of the Long Range Precision Fires (LRPF) CFT is to "deliver cutting-edge surface-to-surface (SSM) fires systems that will significantly increase range and effects over currently fielded US and adversary systems.

[58][45][59] Investigations for ERCA in 2025: rocket-boosted artillery shells:[60] Tests of the Multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) XM30 rocket shell have demonstrated a near-doubling of the range of the munition, using the Tail controlled guided multiple launch rocket system, or TC-G.[61] The TRADOC capability manager (TCM) Field Artillery Brigade - DIVARTY has been named a command position.

In 1901 the regimental organization of the US Army artillery was abolished, more companies were added, and given numerical designations.

The Coast Artillery also acquired the antiaircraft mission during the war, which was formalized a few years later.

In 1924 the Coast Artillery Corps adopted a regimental system, and numbered companies were returned to letter designations.

During 1943 most antiaircraft units lost their Coast Artillery designations, and the regiments were broken up into battalions.

However, the antiaircraft branch remained nominally part of the Coast Artillery Corps.

"Field Artillery Groups" were also created during the war as an alternative to the regimental concept.

CARS used the Army's traditional regiments as parent organizations for historical purposes, but the primary building blocks are divisions, and brigades became battalions.

The nickname hearkens back to when artillerymen wore distinctive red stripes on their uniform trousers.