• tal@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    And they don’t have a backup

    I mean, there’s walking.

    It’s less fun, but if you want to move stuff badly enough, you can do it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_trail

    The Ho Chi Minh Trail (Vietnamese: Đường mòn Hồ Chí Minh), also called Annamite Range Trail (Vietnamese: Đường Trường Sơn) was a logistical network of roads and trails that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the Viet Cong (or “VC”) and the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), during the Vietnam War.

    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”. 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.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      They also had bicycles, which helped a ton in moving both personnel and material. If I were going to have a guerilla army I’d issue them bikes along with their weapons and uniform.