I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to say. The article submitted here is pretty weak, but the operational issues about the subject were quite real and genuine problems in the "field".
That has largeley been solved with the adoption of a new series based on improved color-temperature of background tones--something overlooked when all the focus was on the patterns.
The deployment of coyete in lieu of green/olive and the current multi-cam is pretty good stuff. The problem with marpat and some of the other ACU stuff was that the color temps (ie, too much blue-ish undertones in a desert) can make you stick out more than having the wrong pattern.
This was a problem that resulted from trying to have a rural/urban combination that would work for troops fighting terrorist cells in cities and not just in classical land-warfare scenarios in open-country.
My comment was about the political and economic process that produced the choice of uniform, not the uniform itself. Of course the problems were genuine. What I am saying is that it's very likely that the problems could have been spotted and worked out before billions were spent, because the institutional culture is not good at spotting problems.
That has largeley been solved with the adoption of a new series based on improved color-temperature of background tones--something overlooked when all the focus was on the patterns.
The deployment of coyete in lieu of green/olive and the current multi-cam is pretty good stuff. The problem with marpat and some of the other ACU stuff was that the color temps (ie, too much blue-ish undertones in a desert) can make you stick out more than having the wrong pattern.
This was a problem that resulted from trying to have a rural/urban combination that would work for troops fighting terrorist cells in cities and not just in classical land-warfare scenarios in open-country.
You can read some more background here:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/06/28/army-to-recomm...
And if you dig it up you can find the comparison field tests that illustrated the weaknesses in the field of the earlier designs.