![]() Which means, apparently, that nobody has yet figured out how to render truly effective camouflage on a broad scale. Have fun indeed: At least one Operation Desert Storm Marine helicopter had among its random tan-and-brown camo patterns a silhouette that on second glance was clearly that of the perky-breasted, reclining nude that graces many a truck’s mud flaps. Every possible pattern and color, splinters, splotches, stripes, patches, daubs, geometric shapes and, in the case of some World War II Luftwaffe airplanes, designs that seemed to result from ground crewmen being given spray guns and told to go have fun. First airplanes are painted to blend into a forest canopy, next they’re all as gray as storm clouds.Īrmed forces have tried and ultimately abandoned virtually every imaginable form of camouflage. In one warships are painted black and white, in the next they’re battleship gray. In one war everyone dresses in khaki, in the next they wear complex camo. It seems to work, but nobody is sure why. The history of military camouflage is filled with artists arguing with architects, soldiers deriding painters, historians contemptuous of theorists, and every variety of self-proclaimed expert, from horticulturists to interior decorators, touting their own visions of proper camouflage.Ĭamo is like acupuncture. Camouflage: You Know It When You See It Closeįrom Khaki drab origins, camouflage has entered the realm of the invisible man.Ĭamouflage is baffling-not only to combatants, but also to those who wonder how, why and even whether it works.
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