Ho Chi Minh trail: The secret war
The Ho Chi Minh trail is widely known today because it is still a working network of roads, but it has a dark past. It was filled with secret supply trucks and bombed without public knowledge. A secret was within a war. Why was it kept secret? Because the public would have went nuts if it were exposed. It goes to show though that people will become determined enough to find out the truth even if it takes years.
The Ho Chi Minh trail is actually the American name of the network of roads, named so because at the time it began construction it was north Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh's birthday, may 9th, 1959. The trail was 9,90 miles long and its purpose was to transport supplies from north Vietnam to south Vietnam. …show more content…
Obviously, it wasn't kept a secret forever, America gained word of it by 1960 and we knew it and to be shut down, but how would we go about doing that? As many people know the Vietnamese war was very highly looked down upon and was the center for many riots at the time, so how was the president supposed to come up with a war to destroy this enemy and keep the public happy? Simple, don’t tell them. The attack against the Ho Chi Minh trail is known as the secret war and because of that there isn't much media coverage on it that can be easily found on the internet. It was so secret that if a soldier was killed in a bombing attack or ground attack on the trail the families were simply told that they were lost in southeast Asia, they didn’t even get to know the truth. What we did know was the rolling thunder operation which was an Ariel bombardment on Vietnam. Most didn’t know that this included the trail since it was meant to be a secret. The problem with this is that it was meant to be a gradual thing, known as gradualism. they went in small groups of attacks at different times, spreading each one out and a lot of people and congress men didn’t like the
The Ho Chi Minh trail is widely known today because it is still a working network of roads, but it has a dark past. It was filled with secret supply trucks and bombed without public knowledge. A secret was within a war. Why was it kept secret? Because the public would have went nuts if it were exposed. It goes to show though that people will become determined enough to find out the truth even if it takes years.
The Ho Chi Minh trail is actually the American name of the network of roads, named so because at the time it began construction it was north Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh's birthday, may 9th, 1959. The trail was 9,90 miles long and its purpose was to transport supplies from north Vietnam to south Vietnam. …show more content…
Obviously, it wasn't kept a secret forever, America gained word of it by 1960 and we knew it and to be shut down, but how would we go about doing that? As many people know the Vietnamese war was very highly looked down upon and was the center for many riots at the time, so how was the president supposed to come up with a war to destroy this enemy and keep the public happy? Simple, don’t tell them. The attack against the Ho Chi Minh trail is known as the secret war and because of that there isn't much media coverage on it that can be easily found on the internet. It was so secret that if a soldier was killed in a bombing attack or ground attack on the trail the families were simply told that they were lost in southeast Asia, they didn’t even get to know the truth. What we did know was the rolling thunder operation which was an Ariel bombardment on Vietnam. Most didn’t know that this included the trail since it was meant to be a secret. The problem with this is that it was meant to be a gradual thing, known as gradualism. they went in small groups of attacks at different times, spreading each one out and a lot of people and congress men didn’t like the