Ho Chi Minh Trail

American  

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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Example Sentences

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

Snaking down North Vietnam and into Laos and Cambodia was the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the route the communist North used to ferry men and materiel into South Vietnam.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 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