SecDef Mattis upset at Pentagon wasting $28 million on Afghan uniforms with wrong camo pattern

I’ve always been curious as to how well modern camo actually works. I mean, I get that something vaguely the same color as your background makes you harder to see and harder to shoot, even if you aren’t trying to be especially stealthy. I also get that you maybe don’t want it to be monochrome, given the real world generally isn’t.

That being said that “digital camo” stuff has always seemed weird to me. Does looking like you haven’t rendered properly really make you that harder to see, or would semi-random splotches work just as well?

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