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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

Jacobsen claims that Waugh’s memory is correct and that U.S. authorities actually considered using tactical nuclear weapons to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2019

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

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

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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