The PowerPoint slide meant to demonstrate military strategy in Afghanistan wins my award for worst PowerPoint slide ever. And I’ve seen some pretty bad PowerPoint slides. This NY Times article provides an interesting discussion of it and contains the following, and might I say quite humorous quote, by General Stanley McChrystal: “When we understand that slide, we’ll have won the war.” Here’s the slide:
Casual loop representations can become huge and I agree it should not be shown as 1 powerpoint slide.