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30 April 2020 FM 3-09 Source Notes-1 Source Notes This division lists sources by page number. Where material appears in a paragraph, it lists both the page number followed by the paragraph number. 1-8 “Army forces have effectively integrated capabilities and synchronized actions in the air, land, and maritime domains for decades. Rapid and continued advances in technology and the military application of new technologies to the space domain, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the information environment (particularly cyberspace) require special consideration in planning and converging effects from across all domains.” FM 3-0. 1-2. 1-19 “Get the job done, tidy up the battlefield later.” Gen. Jack N. Merritt (Field Artillery). FA Journal 1-5. 1-21 "If you would make war, wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means of making it shorter and consequently less deplorable for mankind.” Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte. 1-5. 1-21 “In combat there is an overriding requirement to keep unrelenting pressure on the enemy to punish him and rob him of opportunities to take the initiative. But men tire, machines break down and the terrain and weather at times seem to be as much as an opponent as is the enemy. Yet, even under the worst circumstances, the artillery can continue to maintain the momentum.” COL John G. Pappageorge (Infantry) November/December 1974, FA Journal. 1-5. 1-22 “There is a tendency in each separate unit…to be one-handed puncher. By that I mean that the rifleman wants to shoot, the tanker wants to charge, the artilleryman to fire…That is not the way to win battles. If the band played a piece first with the piccolo, then with the brass horn, then with the clarinet, and then with the trumpet, there would be a hell of a lot of noise but no music.” GEN George Patton (Armor) 1-5. 3-1 “The artillery was my strongest tool. I repeatedly said it was more a matter of the infantry supporting the artillery than the artillery supporting the infantry…. I wish I knew the countless times that positions were taken or held due solely to TOT’s ….”Major General R.O. Barton, US 4th Infantry Division World War II. 3-1. 3-76 “Unrehearsed plans are like brand new boots, you can use them, but you won’t go far” Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower, March 1944. 3-31. 4-1 "The Guns, Thank God, The Guns. . .” Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) “Ubique” is a poem by Rudyard Kipling about the Boer War, The Five Nations in 1903. 4-1. 4-62 “In a 15 May 1991 letter to the Commandant of the FA School, Major General Raphael J. Hallada (1987–1991), about the US VII Corps’ 24 February 1991 breaching operation, the Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division, Major General Thomas G. Rhame, related: The performance of the FA in combat has caused all of us to remember what we had perhaps forgotten, namely its incredible destructive power and shock effect. The preparation fires I witnessed prior to our assault on the breachline were the most incredible sight I have seen in 27 years of service. On 24 February 1991 Commander of the US VII Corps Artillery, Brigadier General Creighton Abrams Jr., and the Commander of the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) Artillery, Colonel Michael L. Dodson assembled the FA force. In support of the US VII Corps assault, General Abrams allocated the 42d, 75th, and 142d FA Brigades, two division artilleries, and 10 Multiple Launch Rocket System batteries to create a Soviet- style attack at the breach area. General Abrams positioned approximately 22 artillery pieces for each kilometer of the attack zone. More than 350 FA pieces fired 11,000 rounds while M270 Multiple-Launch Rocket Launchers shot 414 rockets in a FA preparation of 30 minutes. Besides crushing Iraqi morale, this massed fires destroyed 50 tanks, 139 armored personnel