If green shades are the easiest identifiable to the human eye, why do we make camouflage patterns with lots of green shades?
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If you think it is easy to tell two shades of green apart, imagine how much easier it would be if you were wearing red and hiding in greenery.
If you need to hide in greenery, you have to wear green. It is the worst color to use, except all the others.
The point of camouflage is to break up the lines of the body, but it only works if the color is similar to the environment. Use green camo in forests and jungles, etc.; brown in deserts; gray in snow.
Having lots of different shades of green not only blends in with the wilderness that also has a bunch of different shades of green, it breaks up the outline of your body or vehicle so that it’s harder to identify as a single large object
Camouflage isn’t meant to make you completely invisible but rather juuuuust hard enough to spot till it’s too late.
For an ELI5: take a box of crayons of various colors of greens and with a white or black sharpie and put a small dot on the tip of each one. Put them in a big pile of green crayons and stand 5-10 feet back. You now have 10 seconds to find them till you beaned with a paintball.
For a fun IRL example go to the zoo! Go to a critters exhibit known for its hiding skills and try and find it without someone pointing it out. It’s surprisingly difficult. I was a few feet away from a big cat and didn’t even notice it till someone pointed it out.
To add on to the other comments, it depends on the location. If you’re wearing camo in a forest then green will help you blend in more. I think the Navy uses grey/blue camo. The army uses tans and browns in desert regions as well.
Additionally, nowadays the old camo with the large amorphous blobs isn’t used anymore. If you see current military camo, it’s made of tiny squares. Keep in mind camo isn’t just used to confuse the human eye. This is to camouflage not just from people, but from drones and satellites. The resolution of a lot of the satellites used for war is a few centimeters or so. So by making the camo squares smaller than the resolution of the satellites, they’re basically making themselves invisible because the drone can’t tell that that’s a person. Just another advancement in camouflage technology to go along with the different colors for different regions.
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