This is, no joke, an actual PowerPoint slide depicting the complexity of U.S. military strategy.
It first appeared in Kabul during a presentation to General Stanley A. McChrystal - who was at the time leading American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and who upon seeing it commented, "when we understand that slide, we'll have won the war."
The New York Times just ran a great article about the use of PowerPoint in the military, and the program's overall shortcomings when dealing with complex ideas.
THE POINT: Some concepts just can't be "PowerPointed".
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