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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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noun

  1. a network of jungle paths winding from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, used as a military route by North Vietnam to supply the Vietcong during the Vietnam War.


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The goal was to increase rainfall, which would muddy up the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a network of coarse roads, interrupting Vietcong supply lines.

From Scientific American • Sep. 20, 2023

In 1992, Mr. Thayer followed the Vietnam War-era Ho Chi Minh Trail and encountered a lost group of the U.S.-allied Montagnard militia that did not know the conflict had been long over.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

But the North Vietnamese used the jungles on the border between Vietnam and Laos to funnel weapons along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2016

All were pilots downed on missions over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos during the war.

From Washington Times • Sep. 5, 2015

Yet the supplies and soldiers continued flowing from North to South along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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