Camouflage

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The art or practice of disguising or hiding troops, ships, airplanes, land vehicles, buildings, and weapons. Camouflage was necessitated by the advent of repeating rifles, machine guns, and repeating artillery in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Compact masses of troops and crude weapons that prevented long-range gunfire left little room for disguise prior to this period. By World War I (1914-1918), many Western nations had exchanged brilliantly colored uniforms for drab grays, horizon blues, tans, and other less conspicuous colors—a tradition that survives in the mottled...

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