The official web site of A.H. Lloyd

  • Within its corridors you will find insight into the books I have written, the books I am writing and the books I am thinking about writing. It is also a place where I can offer insights into my favorite authors and – in the case of my game Conqueror: Fields of Victory – I can explain my rules and offer new variants. Scroll down or check the sidebar for my latest posts. Nonfiction: Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020 Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War Fiction: Three Weeks with…

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  • Perhaps the greatest difficulty in analyzing Communist China’s military capabilities is the lack of reliable performance data.  China freely shares posed and scripted images, but actual footage is all but impossible to find.  The infamous South China Sea collision in pursuit of a Philippine patrol boat did not reflect well of the People’s Liberation Army Navy, but the PLA’s ground forces remain a mystery. That may now have changed, however.  A wealth of images have come out of the recent Tibet-to-Nepal flash flood and they are very informative. Let us start with the Nepal side of the border.  Though China…

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