History of Camouflage, Concealment, Deception

Camouflage, concealment, and deception have been
ignored in our military schools and doctrinal literature to
a large extent since the end of the Vietnam War. The
services are showing renewed interest in camouflage and
deception. The Army is developing new camouflage arid
deception doctrine and draft joint doctrine has been
written. In this paper I shall review historical examples
on the use of camouflage, concealment and deception inl order
to develop a list of lessons we should have learned about
their use. While some older historical examples will be
explored the focus will be on the period from World War II
to the present.