Photograph shot by Jack Lartz (USIA) in Santo Domingo, during the Dominican Intervention of 1965. After waves of bloodshed had buffeted in the country in a seemingly irreconcilable conflict over the constitution, this welcome inversion of the more commonly heard “Yankee go home” message was not an uncommon sentiment in the Dominican capital.

Modern digital camouflage has a Cold War origin in experiments conducted in the late 1970s by the United States Army.