Are we losing the Afghanistan war because of PowerPoint?

That headline sounds like a ridiculous notion, right? Well, Matthew Yglesias, a fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, thinks there’s something to it. Citing a recent report that found American intelligence in Afghanistan to be lacking, Yglesias, a former Atlantic magazine editor, said, “the military as a whole seems to have a somewhat disturbing level of reliance on communicating via PowerPoint presentations that are often quite poorly made.” He continued: “The f…

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