WRONG UNIES
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James Joyner | Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
Slate’s Explainer tackles the question: Why Are U.S. Troops Wearing Dark-Green Camouflage? While the piece explains this–poor planning and bureaucratic small mindedness–it really doesn’t answer an even more basic question: Now that the Cold War is over and war in Europe seems the least likely scenario, why isn’t the desert camouflage pattern the standard uniform instead of woodland cammo? Given that soldiers already have the latter, and that those uniforms are in ready supply after 20 years of use, it would be a lot easier to switch troops over to green unies if a war broke out in a forest somewhere than to scrounge up desert cammies in the far more likely event that the war will be in the Middle East or Sub-Saharan Africa.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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