Why were the camouflage uniforms (green, brown, yellow) adopted so late? When it seems that it would be pretty obvious that a soldier would die less often in the field if he’s harder to spot? Even in WW1 French were still wearing bright blue and red uniforms?
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The nature of war changed drastically and dramatically in a very short period of time at the turn of the century. WWI was a war that nobody expected to turn out as it did. Many new technologies that didn’t exist a few years prior were utilised to completely change how wars were fought. Airplanes, cars/trucks, machine guns, chemical warfare and tanks all changed how a war is fought and how armies need to be structured and trained to fight it.
Long story short, prior to the 20th century being able to easily spot and distinguish friendly units from enemy ones was much more important than being camouflaged against the enemy. This was due to the lack of means of communications like radios, the nature of how battles were fought with closely grouped units firing at each other from a distance and the main deciding factor of a battle’s victor being the amount of firepower they had.
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