Afghanistan: Batshit Crazy Power Point Slide Presentation

[GlennQuagmire]

This reminds me some chart someone would post on here to convince me that Jay Z and Kanye are initiated Illuminati. Go Go Powerpoint Rangers Would you look at this bullshit. C'mon Son.



from:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...e-Generals-left-baffled-PowerPoint-slide.html

Its coloured charts, graphs and bullet-points are supposed to make the most incomprehensible data crystal clear.

But even the sharpest military minds in American were left baffled by this PowerPoint slide, a mind-boggling attempt to explain the situation in Afghanistan.

'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war,' General Stanley McChrystal, the US and NATO force commander, remarked wryly when confronted by the sprawling spaghetti diagram in a briefing.

PowerPoint has become public enemy number one for many US officers who find themselves battling slide presentations rather than insurgents.

Some have gone as far as to declare all-out war on the software after the military command was over-run with mind-numbing 30-slide presentations.

General James N. Mattis, the Joint Forces Commander, isn't taking any prisoners in his approach.

'PowerPoint makes us stupid,' he 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.'

There is growing concern about the insiduous spread of PowerPoint which has come to dominate the lives of many junior officers.

Dubbed the PowerPoint Rangers, they spend hours slaving away on slides to illustrate every Afghan scenario.

Lieutenant Sam Nuxoll, a platoon leader posted in Iraq, told military website Company Command how he spent most of his time making PowerPoint presentations.

'I have to make a storyboard complete with digital pictures, diagrams and text summaries on just about anything that happens,' he added.

'Conduct a key leader engagement? Make a storyboard. Award a microgrant? Make a storyboard.'

General McChrystal views two PowerPoint presentations a day in Kabul with three more during the course of each week.

PowerPoint was launched in 1987 and bought by Microsoft shortly afterwards.

 

[yahh]

We could be there for a while.

 

[GlennQuagmire]

We could be there for a while.

Just more evidence that insanity just isnt in the financial sector. It's rampant in every damn sector. People will respect you if you just say what is going to happen?

 

[CarryOn]

I love the "significant delay" mark on the legend. I see narcotics is a very small portion of the presentation also.

 

[NinjaspiT]

I actually like this...it presents the information as a whole.

It much easier to understand this way.I wish everything was taught this way.

 

[sirwoodz]

We could be there for a while.

 

[GlennQuagmire]

I actually like this...it presents the information as a whole.

It much easier to understand this way.I wish everything was taught this way.

You are either joking or being sarcastic. I think the comment that sums it up best "Some Problems of the world are not bulletizable" To pretend we have a handle on this situation and a way to circumvent the madness, that isn't productive. This kind of shit reminds me of workplace seminars "We need to create more synergy to make our company have more revenue this year" And then out rolls the Power Point presentation. It's all bullshit.

The simple truth is, no ONE wants to fess up that they can't manage sub sectors of the overwhelming chaos.

 

[Disanddat]

This kind of shit reminds me of workplace seminars "We need to create more synergy to make our company have more revenue this year" And then out rolls the Power Point presentation. It's all bullshit.

The simple truth is, no ONE wants to fess up that they can't manage sub sectors of the overwhelming chaos.

, for that diagram I am not even sure its tractable by simulation. but more so I dont understand the small titled stuff, nor do I understand what example is flowing through the network.

I always believe in following the money. So that might be a better diagram. looking at how money flows in and out of the country.

drug trade ---> some person <---- religous donations

money isnt everything but there needs to be some tangible measure of what exactly is flowing through the network

 

[Duval's King]

We could be there for a while.

Just more evidence that insanity just isnt in the financial sector. It's rampant in every damn sector. People will respect you if you just say what is going to happen?

FUCK

 

[EPDC]

that country and entire region needs a reset button in the shape of one of these. It worked for Japan:

 

[Word??!?]

that country and entire region needs a reset button in the shape of one of these. It worked for Japan:

If you're serious it's because you're retarded.