I'm a bit irritated by the ranks of the speakers. These are top dogs; old men who climbed very high in the establishment.
Agreed. Where's the speaker on Split Battery Operations? Where's the speaker on Battery Operations in support of Battalion COIN operations? You're ignoring current Fires issues for old ones.

Division/Corps level fires? Is this a joke?

I asked a lot of questions in this post, so I'll at least answer the last one. Yes, it is.