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
Larry said that Laotian civilians would have stayed away from the Ho Chi Minh Trail, knowing it was a free-fire zone.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2016
About the time Nowicki was making his way up the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Oelerich was arriving back home in Chicago.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2016
The targets were North Vietnamese troops — especially along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a large part of which passed through Laos — as well as North Vietnam’s Laotian Communist allies.
From New York Times ● Apr. 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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