Fallujah's population had dropped to 50,000 or 60,000 from 350,000 because many families had fled their homes seeking safe shelter.
"Fallujah's population had dropped to 50,000 or 60,000 from 350,000 because many families had fled their homes seeking safe shelter."
Undoubtedly, some of the decline is due to refugee losses. But something tells me we getting some too. Most of the headless corpses have been found on the western Baghdad outskirts.
Also, the post to the effect that the M1 was designed for speed over comfort, while correct, could be taken to minimize the effectiveness of Chobham Type II layered composite armor, an outcome likely not intended by the original author.
Looks to me like the artillery 'shrooms either ascended under low lapse rate conditions, an inversion, light variable surface winds, or a combination thereof. Interesting image, but the laws of physics don't appear to have been suspended.
BTW, lol @ "is/was".