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At will... aside from the strategic and interdiction bombing of North Vietnamese trails (officially) and Cambodian trails (semi-officially) and substantial (esp
by ethbr0 5y ago
At will... aside from the strategic and interdiction bombing of North Vietnamese trails (officially) and Cambodian trails (semi-officially) and substantial (especially for the 1960s) monitoring of the routes.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoYes, at will. They would fix the trails within hours and bombs weren't accurate like they are today.
- ethbr0 5y agoYou're underestimating the effort and dedication that it took to move sufficient quantities of freight by foot over mountain trails. "Plan A", this was not. That would have been motorized transport, which was effectively interdicted. That North Vietnamese logistics was able to smuggle sufficient tonnage to supply even a limited insurgency in the South wasn't inevitable. And probably couldn't have been duplicated by most other military forces.