What if we said green doesn't even exist? Maybe it does, but it's not the color you've always thought it was. This is a brief look at color science, how the military uses it, and how it can be used to trick you...

How a camo got ratio'd from vehicle size to infantry size, Sweden's domestic defense strategy, and the legacy of M90 camouflage.

Was the chest rig really the end of the bandolier? How did the Bandolier become an indispensable part of ammo distribution in the Vietnam war? 

This is the story of how soldiers, faced with a deadly problem, created an iconic and unofficial camouflage adaptation: the field-dyed Desert DPM.

After nearly a half-century of nearly exclusively LARPing against the Soviet Union, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq opened the armies of Europe to actual (though asymmetrical) combat. Nations like the Netherlands finally got the chance to test their equipment in the field.