Urban resistance poses questions over tactics: "taking the city, while far from complete, may actually prove the easy part of the operation; the hard part will be holding it.
'Failure for me is not just we can't go into Falluja,' said Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA Iraq analyst and expert on Arab militaries. 'Failure for me is we go into Falluja, we take the whole town, we kill a bunch of bad guys, and six months later it's basically back where it was before we went in. That to me is also failure.'"
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