"The Ho Chi Minh Trail – Nine Quick Facts About North" Topic

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12 Dec 2021 9:50 p.m. PST

… Vietnam's Infiltration Super Highway

"The Ho Chi Minh Trail was not a single road, but rather a vast web of criss-crossing and intersecting pathways, tracks and thoroughfares totalling 16,000 km (9,500 miles). If somehow unravelled and laid end to end, it would span the breadth of the Eurasian landmass from Lisbon to the Bering Strait. It snaked down from the north, past the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and through the dense and rugged forests of neutral Laos and Cambodia, running parallel to the Vietnamese border. A series of exit roads branched off from the main line at various points into South Vietnam. It's from these openings that infiltrators and supplies poured into the territory controlled by the Saigon government.

Ironically, it was the U.S. forces that gave the Ho Chi Minh Trail its name, which referenced the long-time North Vietnamese leader. The communists called it Ðuong Truong Son or the "Truong Son Road" for the mountain region through which it passed…"
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