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.
"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.