By most accounts, it is not doing anything different from the Vietcong of yore. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a vast, heavily camouflaged network of jungle paths, roads and waterways to transport Vietcong soldiers, weapons and supplies to their forces in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The trail was critical to Vietnam’s ultimate victory in 1975.
Given its varied topography Iran opted for a different camouflage for the unequal war, burying its arsenal in a nationwide labyrinth of tunnels and underground cities, the kind that inspires Hamas, Houthis and Hezbollah to challenge the Israeli occupation of Gaza. Iran believes the asymmetrical war offers it a good chance to improve its success rate for a peaceful world, in which a liberated Palestine is the cornerstone.
