The report estimated that switching from the forest pattern to the camouflage pattern already owned by the U.S. military could save U.S. taxpayers $71 million over the next 10 years.

The Pentagon bought forest-colored camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army despite the country’s dearth of forests after a former defense minister “liked what he saw” online, according to an ...

The decision to use the non-government-owned forest camouflage pattern came after U.S. officials in 2007 found designs on the internet from a company called HyperStealth and showed them to Defense ...