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美军的敌人是谁？
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美军的敌人是谁？
2010.04.28
《毛泽东选集》第一卷开篇写到：“谁是我们的敌人？谁是我们的朋友？这个问题是革命的首要问题。”
纽约时报今天的文章We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint中说，美军现在的敌人是PowerPoint。因为现在每天美军军官们都要为了准备和讲解ppt幻灯片花上不少时间。
纽约时报We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint报道链接：http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?scp=1&sq=powerpoint&st=cse
文章中说：
Like an insurgency, PowerPoint has crept into the daily lives of military commanders and reached the level of near obsession. The amount of time expended on PowerPoint, the Microsoft presentation program of computer-generated charts, graphs and bullet points, has made it a running joke in the Pentagon and in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“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. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat.
"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.”
In General McMaster's view, PowerPoint's worst offense is not a chart like the spaghetti graphic, which was first uncovered by NBC’s Richard Engel, but rigid lists of bullet points (in, say, a presentation on a conflict’s causes) that take no account of interconnected political, economic and ethnic forces. “If you divorce war from all of that, it becomes a targeting exercise,” General McMaster said.
下面是纽约时报上的美军关于阿富汗战争的一幅ppt图，图下面的说明是：
A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan certainly succeeded in that aim.（这张诣在描述美国在阿富汗的战略复杂性的ppt示意图的确达到了这个目的。）
在中国，有人早就将PowerPoint的ppt文件称作“骗骗他”。问题在于，骗他骗久了，估计自己也会越来越糊涂。
https://m.sciencenet.cn/blog-176-317054.html
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