Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops now estimated to number 60,000. American military advisers see no reason why the North Vietnamese should not comply. As one U.S. military expert puts it, "they can be back in Laos in 48 hours." Moreover, the North Vietnamese are no longer wholly dependent on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as a supply route to South Viet Nam: Highway 14 across the Communist-controlled DMZ has been reopened...
...world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...signed this month. The plan ratifies Communist Pathet Lao control over 80% of Laos' land. The Pathet Lao also will have a nearly 50% share in its new government, which certainly will do nothing to interfere with North Viet Nam's use of the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
Both rationales were spurious. Much of the bombing was directed against the Plain of Jars in northeast Laos, hundreds of miles away from what the United States has dubbed the "Ho Chi Minh trail...
...order to continue the war effectively, the government needed to stop its opponents from hampering the war effort. Most antiwar liberals disliked the NLF as much as they disliked General Minh, General Khanh, General Ky, and General Thieu. But in a two-sided war, to oppose one side actively means helping the other. The generals had found themselves hampered by anti-communist liberals who insisted on preserving civil liberties and democratic forms in their efforts to stamp out revolution. General Thieu had himself triumphantly re-elected while his opponents languished in jail cells. Similarly, the American government found itself embarrassed...