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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

The CIA recruited Vang, then 14, and others who could speak broken English to be their eyes and ears on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a military supply route run by the Communist Party.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2018

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

During the Vietnam War, U.S. planes dropped sensors along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to detect enemy troop movements.

From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2011

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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