Six Days In Fallujah is a first-person tactical military shooter based on true stories from the Second Battle for Fallujah in 2004. The Second Battle for Fallujah began in 2004 after Al Qaeda seized ...
My colleague Roger Kaplan recently wrote an excellent review of the PBS documentary, The Last 600 Meters, which is an excellent description of the battles of Najaf and Fallujah during the Iraq war.
November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme ...
"The Last 600 Meters" is a new documentary that tells the story of the two deadliest battles of the Iraq War. In 2004, U.S. forces fought the Shiite Mahdi militia in the Battle of Najaf against the ...
Twenty years ago, on Nov. 7, 2004, a coalition assault force of more than 15,000 troops, mostly Marines, launched a massive attack on the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Over the next seven weeks they would ...
NPR — along with seven public radio stations around the country — is chronicling the lives of America's troops where they live. We're calling the project "Back at Base." This is the first installment ...
Twenty years ago this month, U.S. Marines began fighting the largest urban battle since the Vietnam War. More than 12,000 American, British and Iraqi troops fought for Fallujah, which had become an ...
Peter Tamte was months away from completing his dream project—turning the largest urban battle of the Iraq War into a videogame—when it all seemed to fall apart. The 75 employees of one of his ...
Photo courtesy of Kristopher Battles. A new painting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia, depicts the dust, darkness, and confusion of the brutal house-to-house fighting ...
Marines make their way through the streets of Najaf in 2004. (Courtesy Manifold Productions, Inc.) Jan Bender remembers the moment as if it were yesterday. Taking cover from insurgents, his fireteam ...