Oh, PowerPoint, how we love to hate you. So much so that the New York Times wrote an entire article about its shortcomings. The original poster-child for horrible PowerPoint slides used to be the slide that supposedly contributed to the Columbia disaster (you can get a good breakdown of the notorious slide and the weakness of PowerPoint that is demonstrates here), but now the latest piece of evidence stacked against PowerPoint is a diagram illustrating American military strategy in Afghanistan. 
If the intention of the artist was to demonstrate its complexity, then they've definitely succeeded. But if the diagram was actually intended to be a useful tool for discussion and planning then it utterly fails. Ultimately, the article isn't about this diagram at all but how PowerPoint tends to oversimplify complex and difficult concepts into rigid bullet point lists. See the full New York Times article for more details.
If the intention of the artist was to demonstrate its complexity, then they've definitely succeeded. But if the diagram was actually intended to be a useful tool for discussion and planning then it utterly fails. Ultimately, the article isn't about this diagram at all but how PowerPoint tends to oversimplify complex and difficult concepts into rigid bullet point lists. See the full New York Times article for more details. 
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