{"id":4948,"date":"2010-05-04T00:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T08:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2010-05-03T20:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T04:21:47","slug":"the-true-enemy-of-military-efficiency-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/the-true-enemy-of-military-efficiency-powerpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"The True Enemy of Military Efficiency: PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked what fighter pilots do when they&#8217;re not flying.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/world\/27powerpoint.html\">pretty good answer<\/a>, and it&#8217;s mostly serious.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> takes an interesting look at the US military&#8217;s reliance on Microsoft&#8217;s PowerPoint, to the point that Army officers in combat freely admit they spend more time creating slides than they do fighting the enemy.\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t the only ones; the military has entire rooms of staff personnel whose entire purpose in life is to generate PowerPoint slides.<\/p>\n<p>If it can&#8217;t be said in three, one-line bullets, (14 point font, black on white background, of course) it appears it shouldn&#8217;t be said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone recently asked what fighter pilots do when they&#8217;re not flying.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a pretty good answer, and it&#8217;s mostly serious. The New York Times takes an interesting look at the US military&#8217;s reliance on Microsoft&#8217;s PowerPoint, to the point that Army officers in combat freely admit they spend more time creating slides than they do fighting the enemy.\u00a0 They aren&#8217;t [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2,214,435],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-new-york-times","tag-powerpoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}