The clarity of confusion made clear with PowerPoint. You got that?

No wonder Afghanistan is such a mess. It would not mattrer how many thousands of troops we sent in, it would still be a bloody, confusing mess. So how about a little clarity with a Powerpoint presentation and analyis? Sounds great, right? Not even close. Below you wil find a PowerPoint presentation that is suppossed to make the clouded Afghanistan picture crystal clear. Take a look and get back to me or better yet, let the military know what all of it means. "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.'Maybe they should just use crayons and plain white paper? Be heck of alot cheaper and easier to understand.

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'When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war:'

DailyMail.co.uk;  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.

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.

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs

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