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.
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 ...
Even the dead insurgents lining the streets and alleys of Fallujah were a threat to the U.S. Marines pushing into the Iraqi city two decades ago. Troops shot up the often boobytrapped corpses lying ...
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Remembering the battles of Najaf and Fallujah in ‘The Last 600 Meters'
Airing on PBS, a new documentary tells the stories of Marines and soldiers in combat during 2004 operations to clear two Iraqi cities of insurgents.
FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - A series of explosions and gunfire rocked Fallujah today in new fighting the day after a heavy battle in which U.S. warplanes and artillery pounded the city in a show of force ...
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 ...
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 ...
"For the next few weeks it was a muzzle-to-muzzle slugfest." The Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines — who came to the reunion in Richmond from across the United States — fought ...
HARRISBURG, Ill. -- A knock on the door before dawn Thursday brought a grim Veterans Day wakeup to this small coal-mining town, in Southern Illinois. Two uniformed Marines stood outside, waiting to ...
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