What is Ho Chi Minh trail?
[[File:HoCMT.png|thumb|right|A map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1967.]] The '''Ho Chi Minh Trail''' is a system of trails made in the [[Vietnam War]] to send [[People's Army of Vietnam|North Vietnamese]] [[Soldier|soldiers]] into [[South Vietnam]] to help South Vietnamese communist insurgents ([[Viet Cong]]) fight against non-[[Communism|communist]] [[South Vietnam]]ese soldiers. Most of the trails were in [[Laos]] and [[Cambodia]] because the [[United States]] was not allowed to enter those [[Country|countries]] to bomb the trails. Later in the war, the United States would secretly send US soldiers to fight communist Vietnamese soldiers in Laos and Cambodia. In early 1971, South Vietnam&ndash;with United States support&ndash;tried to disrupt the [[Ho Chi Minh]] Trail by invading [[Laos]] and launching [[Operation Lam Son 719]], but this operation was a failure.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a324683.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2021-04-20 |archive-date=2021-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131163420/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a324683.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Vietnam War}} [[Category:Vietnam War]]