US loosing the war because of Power Point

[FluffyMcDeath]

OK, I exaggerate. The subject is a bit over the top but this article is the second time I've heard about negative feelings toward Power Point from commanders. The lackeys that produce slides also don't like it much for the most part and see it as a waste of time but feel like it's required.

'PowerPoint makes us stupid,' [General James N. Mattis] growled at a military conference in North Carolina.

Brigadier General H.R. McMaster went one step further and banned the presentation package when he led an offensive in Tal Afar, Iraq, in 2005.

'It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,' he told the New York Times. 'Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.'

But the first I read of this was over two years ago or more, I'm pretty sure. The current news about this baffling slide and Power Point mania in the Army is obscuring the older news though so I can't point to anything concrete. I've found blog comments from 2007 bemoaning rampant military Power Pointing, though. If they can't win the war against Power Point how can they win any war?

 

[Wayne]

Love the quotes, but my favorite is probably the nickname "PowerPoint Rangers"...

Sadly, I know people who live for charts like that.