![]() On 28 April 2004, Operation Vigilant Resolve ended with an agreement where the local population is ordered to keep the insurgents out of the city. Marine Corps forces launched Operation Vigilant Resolve (4 April 2004) to take back control of the city from insurgent forces. Images of their mutilated bodies were broadcast around the world.Within days, U.S. Shortly afterward, on 31 March 2004, four American Blackwater USA contractors were ambushed and killedin the city. 82nd Airborne Division to the 1st Marine Division. Natonski James Mattis James Cowanġ0,500 troops 2,000 troops 850 troops Total: 13,350 troopsĪmerican: 95 killed, 560 wounded (54 killed and 425 wounded from November 7 to November 16) Iraqi: 8 killed, 43 wounded British: 4 killed, 10 wounded Total: 107 killed, 613 woundedīackgroundIn February, 2004, control of Fallujah and the surrounding area in the Al-Anbar province was transferred from the U.S. Iraqi insurgency Mujahideen Shura Council Al-Qaeda in Iraq United States of America Iraqi security forces United Kingdom Marines fight in the city of Fallujah, Iraq during the Second Battle of Fallujah, in 2004. Second Battle of Fallujah (Operation Phantom Fury) This was the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War to date, and is notable for being the first major engagement of the Iraq War fought solely against insurgents rather than the forces of the former Ba’athist Iraqi government. Marines) fought into the center of the city, the Iraqi government requested that the city’s control be transferred to an Iraqi-run local security force, which then began stockpiling weapons and building complex defenses across the city in mid-2004. When Coalition Forces (the majority being U.S. Earlier, in April 2004, Coalition Forces fought the First Battle of Fallujah in order to capture or kill insurgent elements considered responsible for the deaths of a Blackwater Security team. This operation was the second major operation in Fallujah. Marines have been involved in since the Battle of Huế City in Vietnam in 1968. military called it “some of the heaviest urban combat U.S. Marine Corps against the Iraqi insurgency stronghold in the city of Fallujah and was authorized by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Interim Government. Bush administration to “surge” additional forces to Iraq, placing the conduct of the “surge” and its aftermath in the second volume.The Second Battle of Fallujah ( code-named Operation Al-Fajr ( Arabic, “the dawn”) and Operation Phantom Fury) was a joint U.S., Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered the highest point of conflict in Fallujah during the Iraq War. ![]() This volume concludes with a review of the decision by the George W. ![]() The narrative continues by examining the road to war, the initially successful invasion, and the rise of Iraqi insurgent groups before exploring the country’s slide toward civil war. and Iraqi forces during the interwar years. Volume 1 begins in the truce tent at Safwan Airfield in southern Iraq at the end of Operation DESERT STORM and briefly examines actions by U.S. Presented principally from the point of view of the commanders in Baghdad, the narrative examines the interaction of the operational and strategic levels, as well as the creation of theater level strategy and its implementation at the tactical level. Marine Corps, and special operations forces. This study reviews the conflict from a Landpower perspective and includes the contributions of coalition allies, the U.S. Army in the Iraq War is the Army’s initial operational level analysis of this conflict, written in narrative format, with assessments and lessons embedded throughout the work. To date, few official studies have been conducted to review what happened, why it happened, and what lessons should be drawn. ![]()
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