Ho Chi Minh Trail
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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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