Toolan ('Fallujah was like a siren, calling to the insurgents It was like the bar in Star Wars. Operation Phantom Fury chronologically documents the on-the-ground events leading to the 20 military operations in Fallujah, Iraq, and makes clear that the operations relied on a team soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Iraqi troops.He chooses exposition of eloquence, relying on participants voices to bring drama and description. He knows the subject.For this contemporary history, Camp conducted interviews and review oral histories and made us of the bibliography. And the information is worth the weight.Experienced author Dick Camp, a retired Marine colonel and Vietnam veteran, is vice president at the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and its National Museum of the Marine Corps.
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Because of the high-quality paper suitable for printing more than 150 color photographs plus maps, Operation Phantom Fury weighs about 2 pounds. It is a rare firsthand account of the brutal reality of the war in Iraq, how this battle for a key city was fought, and how such a crucial battle looks from positions of command and from the thick of the fight.
This book offers an in-depth, intimate look into Operation Phantom Fury, the single most significant battle undertaken during the occupation of Iraq. The Marine Corps biggest battle in Iraq to date, it was so prolonged and fierce that it has entered the pantheon of USMC battles alongside Iwo Jima, Inchon, and Hue City. The Second Battle for Fallujah, dubbed Operation Phantom Fury, took place over an almost two-month period, from Nov. 'We had killed a lot of and, yes, they hurt us, we were all set to roll them up.'But before they co -Leatherneck Magazine, January, 2010 Their convoy was blocked, they they were killed and dragged through the streets, their corpses strung up on a bridge.The Marines went in four days later.' did not want to do it,' Camp says, because of limited forces and too-little planning time, along with the expectation that there would be 'a great deal of collateral damage' in civilians killed or wounded.The outcome was not what President Bush and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld were expecting.While Marines were winning on the ground, Camp says, they were losing the battle of international public opinion.Arab media such as Al-Jazeera were portraying the assault as the slaughter of innocent Iraqis. The coalition's first foray into the city in March 2004 was prompted by the brutal murder of four civilian contractors with Blackwater USA. screw-ups or how politics in Washington affects battles in the war zone.He spent about a year gathering material for the book on Fallujah, which may join Belleau Wood in World War I, Guadalcanal in World War II, Chosin Reservoir in Korea and Khe Sanh in Vietnam in the constellation of memorable Marine battles.A city of about 350,000 people 40 miles west of Baghdad, Fallujah was largely spared in the initial push to Baghdad at the start of the Iraq war in 2003.But by the following year, it had become a nexus of tension between coalition forces, Sunni insurgents and civilians. FALLUJAH FALLOUT Camp doesn't shy away from U.S. Operation Phantom Fury, for example, includes excerpts from the Iraqi Resistance Report, an insurgents' Web site that gives a daily account of its side of the fight. An expertly researched, harrowingly presented account of the pivotal battle, highly recommended especially for military history collections with a focus on the Iraq Wars -Midwest Book Review, Dec, 2009 Marine and Army forces, along with a number of Iraqi Army battalions, had to confront the lethal task of retaking Fallujah from insurgents. invasion of Iraq in 2003, strife between civilians, insurgents, and coalition forces erupted into violence with the murder and desecration of four Blackwater contractors. Though Fallujah did not receive severe damage during the initial U.S.
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Camp is currently vice president for museum operations with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.Book News Inc, Feb 2010.Retired Marine Corps full colonel and Vietnam combat veteran Dick Camp presents Operation Phantom Fury: The Assault and Capture of Fallujah, Iraq, an in-depth portrait of the second battle for Fallujah, which was the Marine Corps' biggest battle in Iraq, and arguably the most important battle during the entire occupation. The account draws on personal interviews with those involved, including division commanders and infantrymen, and is illustrated with about 150 on-the-scene color photos, plus several maps. Camp, a retired Marine Corps colonel, offers a highly detailed account of the Marine Corps' biggest battle in Iraq, the Second Battle for Fallujah, which began with the 2004 murder of four Blackwater contractors.
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