Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033
program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times,
as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of
camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.
Warhol also used various
programs of abstraction in his painting to mimic and comment on art of his era, especially abstract expressionism,
as in Dance Diagram [3][«The Lindy Tuck - In Turn Man»], 1962, Rorschach, 1984, and
Camouflage, 1986, or his famous Shadows, 1978 — 79, and the Oxidation series.