Description

The Ho Chi Minh Trail was the military corridor through Laos that the North Vietnamese constructed during the Vietnam War to project their combat power into South Vietnam and was key to their conquest of Saigon in 1975. To Hanoi and its allies, it was The Freedom Road. To Saigon, America and her allies, it was the invasion route into South Vietnam. But both sides agree The Trail was the military engineering marvel of the 20th century. This presentation will explain what The Trail was during the war and what it is now, through videos and photos: Its people, the war relics, the legacy left behind. Paul Carter, PhD, has traveled to Laos nearly 30 times, spending a significant amount of time on The Trail, which hugs the eastern Lao border in the Annamite mountain chain along the Vietnamese border, talking to its people and exploring its war history.

Presenter:

Dr. Paul Carter is a video documentarian of Southeast Asia during the Second Indochina War. A retired U.S. Army Intelligence officer, with five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, he holds a PhD from Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. In addition to his YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers, he is published in the academic journals East Asia, Asian Review, the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence, and several others. Dr. Carter has given several presentations for Lifelong Learning Payap about the Secret War in Laos and other aspects of the Second Indochina War, all of which have been enthusiastically received.

COST : 350 THB