America’s Secret Power in the Vietnam War

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]America once tried to weaponize the weather.

[00:00:03]During the Vietnam War, the target was not a city. It was a trail. The Ho Chi Minh Trail carried supplies through Laos and Vietnam. So, in 1967, [music] the US launched a classified operation with a strange idea, make the sky [music] fight, too. American crews seeded storm clouds above the route hoping to stretch the monsoon by up to 45 days. More rain meant mud. Mud meant stuck trucks, washed out crossings, collapsed [music] hillsides. Inside the unit, the slogan was almost unbelievable, make mud, not war. For years, officials [music] denied weather warfare was happening.

[00:00:43]Then leaks and the Pentagon Papers exposed the secret. The US had not just fought on land, it had tried to turn the sky into a weapon. Follow Hidden Histories for more forgotten history.