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Re:Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urb... by ethbr0 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:33PM (#30475048)
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.
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Re:Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urb... by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @12:11AM (#30475345)
Yes, at will. They would fix the trails within hours and bombs weren't accurate like they are today.
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Re:Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urb... by ethbr0 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @09:09AM (#30477663)
You'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.

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