A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
The New York Times
Published: April 26, 2010
A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.
“When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” General McChrystal dryly remarked, one of his advisers recalled, as the room erupted in laughter.
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In an attempt to explain and simplify, the chart seems to do precisely the opposite. . .
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