The Department of Defense has had a long love affair with PowerPoint. Slides like this one, though, have been universally ridiculed, while factions within the military have slowly started to rebel ...

“Death by PowerPoint” is what peeling potatoes was to military generations of the past — a shared experience of droning misery that servicemembers are often “voluntold” to attend. The heavy use of dry ...

This past Sunday marked 20 years since then-Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his remarks to the U.N. Security Council laying out the evidence for the existence of Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of ...

Officially, Dave Karle is an executive communications manager at Microsoft. Less officially, his colleagues have given him another name: the Pied Piper of PowerPoint. His audience? The U.S. Army.

From the people who brought you the troop surge of 2007, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, drone strikes on Iraqi civilians and untold numbers of troops engaged in the ever-expanding Global War on ...

Have you fallen in love with your bulletized slides, nifty transitions, and pretty charts in PowerPoint? If so, you’re likely getting more stupid, if the experience of commanders in the U.S. armed ...

"PowerPoint makes us stupid," says Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, summarizing a growing concern in the armed forces that U.S. commanders' "near obsession" with the Microsoft presentation software ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As it winds down the decade-long war in Afghanistan, the U.S. military is moving some 750,000 major pieces of equipment, such a weapons and vehicles, out of that country. The ...