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Afghan and Vietnamese logistics weren't exactly top notch and they both defeated a much stronger military

• OrvalWintermute 4y ago
  > Afghan and Vietnamese logistics weren't exactly top notch and they both defeated a much stronger military Afghans had great logistics, and the Haqqani network never stopped importing. Given the pre-positioned amount of weapons, ammo, and fertilizer, it wasn't like they needed much though anyways. However, the porous border, and ISI support for the Taliban never wavered. That pipeline is probably the reverse of some of the ones used for the heroin exporting. The Vietnamese's Ho Chi Minh Trail [1] was active the entire war, and they likewise had great logistics. To quote the Wikipedia article and NSA, "According to the U.S. National Security Agency's official history of the war, the trail system was "one of the great achievements of military engineering of the 20th century".[2] The trail was able to effectively supply troops fighting in the south, an unparalleled military feat, given it was the site of the single most intense air interdiction campaign in history. " Given that Russia and China were supplying North Vietnam, and there was a combination of North Vietnamese regular army, as well as the viet cong with whom to deal. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail