![]() ![]() Videos shot by insurgents prior to the U.S. Forces took hundreds of casualties, killed thousands of insurgents, destroyed much of Fallujah’s infrastructure and encountered weapons very seldom seen on today’s battlefields. Marines assault on Fallujah was swift, brutal and deadly. This gave the opposition time to prepare, draw battle plans, establish caches, tunnel, plant IEDs within the infrastructure (cemented into the sidewalks) and allow their supply chain to flood the market with explosives, weapons and ammo. Forces from within the cities limits, Fallujah was left completely open to the insurgents and maintained no U.S. Military decided to re-attack the insurgent stronghold. This deteriorating security situation lasted for nearly 7 months until November of 2004 when the U.S. The insurgents also regularly conducted sniper attacks, sprung ambushes on supply convoys and harassed the day to day operations around the city with impunity. Inside Fallujah the insurgency was free to launch mortar and rocket attacks at the troops stationed at the positions around the city. ![]() The use of fortified patrol bases around the city worked well in restricting the movements of insurgents outside the city limits however inside the city insurgents roamed freely as no U.S. Military the opportunity to search vehicles and personnel. These forces were also able to control traffic flow into and out of the city and gave the U.S. Security check points were set up and manned around the city’s perimeter enabling patrols of the city’s outskirts. forces cordoned the city, laying it under siege. troops broke engagement and exited the city. Due to concern over collateral damage, the U.S. Marines initial invasion into Fallujah caused many casualties on both sides but also began inflicting collateral damage to the civilian populace and started crumbling Fallujah’s infrastructure. Military launched Operation Vigilant Resolve but ran into stiff resistance almost immediately. Military acting in response to the killing and mutilation of several military contractors decided to launch an invasion on the city of Fallujah and root out the insurgency there. It contained 155mm artillery shells utilized to construct Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), homemade rocket launchers, small arms ammunition, 57mm rockets and PG-7 grenades. Caches like this one were a common find during the battle of Fallujah. ![]()
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