Three Block War: Vigilant Resolve

Three Block War: Vigilant Resolve is an excerpt of the full-length Three Block War. Vigilant Resolve recounts the action of Marines in the first Fallujah battle of April 2004 against Iraqi mujahideen. Marine units included 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, which battled insurgents in ‘The Jolan,’ a congested northwestern Fallujah neighborhood where the 2/1 engaged in vicious urban combat.
In the southeast, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines advanced from an industrial zone into Fallujah’s urban battle tem...