Battle of Fallujah - why did the US army/marines keep losing fallujah during Iraq war

[Boxfan83]

But everyone other sources said the Marines lost Fallujah 3-4 times and had to bomb the whole city to the ground to finally take it.

95 Marines were killed in the 2nd Battle of Fallujah and 450 injured.

2,175 insurgents were killed.

By the time it was all over on December 23, U.S. forces had uncovered more than 450 weapons caches, three torture chambers, one of which contained a live prisoner who’d had his leg sawed off, and 24 bomb-making factories. According to a log cited in Bing West’s book, one Marine platoon cleared 70 or more buildings a day for more than a week, during which time they engaged in an average of three firefights a day, and killed 60 insurgents.

The final butcher’s bill for taking Fallujah was 95 Americans killed in action, and 450 seriously wounded. According to a report from Gen. George Casey, commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, of the 8,400 insurgents killed in 2004, 2,175 had fallen in the Battle of Fallujah. Unfortunately, hundreds of Islamist insurgents had either left Fallujah before the battle or slipped through the cordon in small groups and went on to join their brothers to spark new uprisings in Mosul, Ramadi, and East Baghdad.

[Boxfan83]

I first deployed to Iraq in 2005.

Rough times. I got off active duty in 05 and out of the Reserves in 07.