<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam" id="mwAWs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Army of the Republic of Vietnam">South Vietnamese ground troops</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lam_Son_719" id="mwAWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation Lam Son 719">launch an incursion</a> into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laos" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Laos">Laos</a> to try to cut off the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ho Chi Minh trail">Ho Chi Minh trail</a> and stop <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Army_of_Vietnam" id="mwAW8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's Army of Vietnam">communist infiltration</a> into the country.<sup about="#mwt321" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-62"}}' id="cite_ref-62" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_8#cite_note-62" id="mwAXA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 62;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXE">[62]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt325" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-63"}}' id="cite_ref-63" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_8#cite_note-63" id="mwAXI" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 63;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAXM">[63]</span></a></sup>
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