"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 ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

The Corps is changing the way Marines learn, and how their instructors -- charged with preparing them for the fleet -- teach. Yes, that includes getting rid of "death by PowerPoint" and "sage on the ...