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.

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.

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 ...