Dilbert captures the art of briefing a flag officer:
Serious point to be made-I have always shaken my head at flags who insisted that their briefing products be" dumbed down." They usually never phrase it that way-but rather insist on the BLUF ( Bottom Line Up Front). Seems in Capstone training, the ability to read and skim gets unlearned. Our now . former. boss-he was a big believer in pictures on slides. Somehow he felt that bullets on slides produced for note taking, took away from his brief. Never mind the fact that a good briefer does not have to read the slide-but bullets provide detailed context. Then again, to this guy, context is never important-just his conclusions.
And we wonder why we end up with things like LCS.
It is to weep.