After nearly two decades of the U.S. Military fighting in the Global War on Terror, the focus in training was for low-intensity conflict, counterinsurgency, and stability operations. Many U.S. Field Artillery units performed firebase operations with the focus on precision munitions and the digital systems associated with howitzers due to increased speed and accuracy. Many Field Artillery units performed non-standard mission sets leading to atrophy in core competencies and degraded operations. During the same two decades, peer adversaries like Russia and North Korea increased material and technological capabilities that create a degraded, disrupted, or denied space operating environment, which poses a severe threat to the digital systems that the U.S. Field Artillery has grown comfortable utilizing. This thesis seeks to answer, "Do the U.S. Field Artillery's current doctrine, training, and leadership/education domains allow cannon units to establish and maintain firing capability in a degraded, denied, and disrupted space operating environment?

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