Jalur tersebut dinamai oleh orang-orang Amerika dari presiden Vietnam Utara Hồ Chí Minh. Walau jalur tersebut sebagian besar berada di Laos, kaum komunis menyebutnya Rute Suplai Strategis Trường Sơn (Đường Trường Sơn), yang mengambil sebutan dari nama Vietnam untuk pegunungan Deretan Annamite di tengah Vietnam.[1] Menurut sejarah perang resmi buatan Badan Keamanan Nasional Amerika Serikat, sistem jalur tersebut adalah "salah satu prestasi besar teknik militer abad ke-20."[2]
↑Military History Institute of Vietnam, Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975 (trans. by Merle Pribbenow, Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2002, p. 28.
↑Robert J. Hanyok, Spartans in Darkness. Washington, D.C.: Center for Cryptographic History, NSA, 2002, p. 94.
U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group, Annex N, Command History 1965. Saigon, 1966.
Dokumen pemerintah yang diterbitkan
Gilster, Herman L. The Air War in Southeast Asia: Case Studies of Selected Campaigns. Maxwell Air Force Base: AL, Air University Press, 1993.
Military History Institute of Vietnam. Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954–1975. Trans Merle L. Pribbenow. Lawerence KS: University of Kansas Press, 2002.
Nalty, Bernard C. The War Against Trucks, Aerial Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1968–1972. Washington, D.C.: US Air Force History and Museums Program, 2005.
