CSPAN Defense Department Acquisition Reform March 28, 2015
Make them more of a target. So they switched to khaki. The french by comparison still wore blue coats and bright red trousers. The french minister of war saw an advantage of being slightly less visible on the battlefield and sought to institute the same reform that the british had taken on, but a general way to describe the debate would be to say that the french have always held a high regard for fashion. So, taking away would be, as a parisian newspaper wrote contrary to french taste and military function and of course they put taste before function. What a former general got former general e...
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