<Tr> <Th> Past commanders </Th> <Td> Võ Bẩm Phan Trọng Tuệ Đồng Sỹ Nguyên Hoàng Thế Thiện </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Garrison </Th> <Td> 5,000--60,000 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Hồ Chí Minh trail (also known in Vietnam as the "Trường Sơn trail") was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia . The system provided support, in the form of manpower and materiel, to the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (called the Viet Cong or "VC" by its opponents) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), or North Vietnamese Army, during the Vietnam War . </P> <P> It was named by the Americans after North Vietnamese president Hồ Chí Minh . Although the trail was mostly in Laos, the communists called it the Trường Sơn Strategic Supply Route (Đường Trường Sơn), after the Vietnamese name for the Annamite Range mountains in central Vietnam . According to the United States 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, a military feat unparalleled given it was the site of the single most intense bombing campaign in history, with bombs dropping on average every seven minutes . </P>

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