While Operation Inherent Resolve -- the U.S. military effort to degrade and defeat the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq -- is widely viewed as an air campaign, Army ground forces have expended enough precision munitions in the fight to ask Congress for permission to shift fiscal year 2016 funds to immediately replenish top-shelf artillery weapons. The Army is asking Congress for the OK to place additional orders using FY-16 funds of Raytheon-made Excalibur rounds, and Orbital ATK's Precision Guidance...
