It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks the military's camouflage fetish has gone crazy.

[Aristus]

4. What we used to do in these situations is have standard, uniform service dress,

and reserve specialty camouflage patterns, like the snow pattern, specifically for the troops who were actually going to need them.

The woodland pattern for general service dress back in the 80's & 90's made the most sense, because the military was geared toward a continental and European Cold War mission. If we are going to change our focus permanently to a desert setting, in order to steal as much oil as possible from the desert countries who possess it, let's settle on a single desert pattern to outfit the troops service-wide.

Time and again when I was in the Army, I saw that the most important aspect of disguising vehicles and personnel in the field was not the colors that they wore, but whether the outlines of men and machines were broken up from the POV of potential enemy troops.