The Military and Powerpoint

An absolutely hilarious article from today’s Times on the increasing and frustratingly byzantine nature of American military commander Powerpoint presentations. Required reading for all of the digital presentation slide-makers among us.

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina…“It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward. “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”