Field Artillery (magazine)
Field Artillery (or FA) is a discontinued bimonthly magazine on the subject of field artillery, published from 1911 to 2007. It was published by the US Field Artillery Association, Fort Sill, Oklahoma and was an official publication of the United States Army Field Artillery Corps. Its intended readership included active and reserve U.S. Army and Marine field artillerymen stationed around the world.
In its final years, FA included much discussion of the military operations in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of the articles have included discussions of the use of white phosphorus shells for missions other than providing smoke covering or marking positions and have caused political controversy both within and without the United States. (See White phosphorus use in Iraq.)
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