When soldiers kicked off the battle in 2005 to retake the insurgent-held Iraqi city of Tal Afar, the assault also began anew era in Army combat tactics.
That first precision strike in September 2005 did not come from combat aircraft, as so many other military operations have begun, but from an artillery piece more than 40 miles away from the northern Iraqi city.
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