Posted: 4/29/2010 8:35:04 PM EDT
US army creates world’s worst PowerPoint slideNBR staff | Friday April 30, 2010 - 05:00am ABOVE: COMA AT 30 PACES: The US military's Afghanistan-explained slide, credited to PA Consulting. PA maintains an Auckland office, if this type of work appeals. Via the most excellent NZ Trade & Enterprise, our government has long warned about the dangers of Death by PowerPoint. The US military bureaucracy has been a little slower on the update. A slide shown by General Stanley McChrystal, head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan (above), is now zinging around the internet, held up as a metaphor for America’s tangled policy in the region, and an example of the perils of over-reliance on Microsoft’s presentation software. “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war,” The New York Times reported General McChrystal as saying when he first unveiled the slide last year.  But as in the Middle East and Afghanistan, things are slowly starting to dawn on Uncle Sam. “PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Marine Corps General James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina, reported the Times. He spoke without slides. Another member of the brass, Brigadier General H R McMaster, told the same conference that PowerPoint was "an internal threat" (remember when they used to root out Commies?). “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” he told the Times, “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”  |
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Bullshit. I searched "Powerpoint slide" before I posted this and guess what? FUCK ALL came up.  |
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Quoted: 1. Duped as of a couple days ago-no link––-search for powerpoint yourself. 2. I saw worse at my first day of JFC. 3. This may be useful for those retards here that say Afghanistan is easy if they "just let the military do its job"  it is when you dont have a strategy that looks like THAT when written out.  |
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Bullshit. I searched "Powerpoint slide" before I posted this and guess what? FUCK ALL came up.
I guess you missed the 4 results that came up to include the 119 reply thread.
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1. Duped as of a couple days ago-no link––-search for powerpoint yourself. 2. I saw worse at my first day of JFC. 3. This may be useful for those retards here that say Afghanistan is easy if they "just let the military do its job"
it is when you dont have a strategy that looks like THAT when written out.
That is exactly what gets handed to every battlespace owner the second they hit the ground. Maybe not the slide, but the situation depicted in the slide. At least the slide lays it out for you. |
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Quoted: Now read the search directions and then search for "powerpoint" Bullshit. I searched "Powerpoint slide" before I posted this and guess what? FUCK ALL came up.  Forum Search Tool
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Bullshit. I searched "Powerpoint slide" before I posted this and guess what? FUCK ALL came up. Three pages of DUPE right here. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal: 'We Have Met The Enemy And He Is PowerPoint' ( Page: 2 3 ) http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=1032942 Posted: 4/27/2010 7:54:54 AM PDT 
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| This is old. I first recieved this powerpoint after an S-2 brief in mid December. And it was not considered cutting edge information. I looked back thorugh my email and I was sending it out to some friends of mine the week of xmas. It received about the same way in professional circles at is was in ARFCOM. I wish I could say its a spoof, or a haox. but it's not. it's real. |