Consultants’ triumph (2): War plans
Here’s another example of how successful consultants can take anything — no matter how complex — and make it simple to understand. London-based PA Consulting Group, master analysts of the zombie economy, reportedly produced the diagram shown below [click on it to see an enlarged version]. MSNBC says: “This unclassified document from the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shows the U.S. military’s plan for “Afghanistan Stability/COIN Dynamics – Security’”.
UPDATE: Investigator Wendy Cooper writes: “You are giving me nightmares – looks like one of those metabolic pathways posters I had to memorise in biochemistry. Yecccchhhh!”
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[...] This diagram is nothing to laugh at, and nothing to make fun of. This diagram is something to celebrate, because it shows us that our military leaders are trying to take a systems approach to the complex problems in Afghanistan. The opposite of a laughable waste of energy, this particular causal loop diagram has been held up (in scientific circles) as a masterful example of how to make complex systems simple enough to understand. [...]