== Dazzle camouflage == 

 I am willing to wait for response on the definition, for I have lately perceived a decline in the number of active knowledgeable editors.  Perhaps my generation is dying off.  I greatly value your perspectives and contributions on this subject.  I am hunting for sources explaining reasons for between the wars denigration of dazzle camouflage for ships.  I suspect that might be a reasonable chronological boundary differentiating dazzle camouflage from later disruptive schemes.  As you pointed out, Cott's 1940 text marks a similar divide in nomenclature.  On the basis of personal experience, I suspect primary motivations for discontinuing dazzle camouflage included a lack of visual appeal to the military mindset preferring a parade formation of spotless uniformity, and the comparative difficulty of maintaining a two-tone paint scheme rather than a single color more forgiving of drips and spills.  These underlying preferences were likely masked by alleged statistical studies of combat experience; although military studies of the period often lack scientific method controls.  In any event, I am searching for sources which might support or refute my hypotheses.