During the two decades between the end of the Vietnam conflict and its first war with Iraq, the United States Army resurrected itself as a powerful fighting force capable of taking on the heavily mechanized armies of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. For Field Artillery, this meant a complete modernization. This process of redesign, with all its vicissitudes, is the subject of this valuable study by Dr. Boyd L. Dastrup, the Command Historian of the U.S. Army Field Artillery Center and School.