Military camouflage, you may think, is easy: you just slap weird shapes in tones of green, beige, blue, or gray on hardware or clothes. But camouflage today is much more sophisticated than that ...

On display are relics of the Section, and everything from 150 original model boats showing the famous Dazzle technique developed for British ships to the latest camouflage patterns of the US Army.

Unlike traditional camouflage, the intent was not to conceal but to mislead. The most famous example is “dazzle painting,” credited to British artist Norman Wilkinson. By breaking up a ship’s outline ...

Called camouflage, using colors, patterns, or pieces of local plants or bits of the environment to “hide in plain sight” is ...