# Stanley McChrystal Complexity Slide **Entity class:** Artifact **Research spine:** [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Definition The Stanley McChrystal complexity slide was the widely circulated Afghanistan diagram whose dense network of arrows came to symbolize PowerPoint's failure to clarify institutional complexity. ## Chronological Proximity It circulated in 2010 while DCGS-A and Palantir were competing to organize battlefield intelligence. ## Relational Proximity It connects General Stanley McChrystal to [[wiki/PowerPoint as Institutional Cognition|PowerPoint as institutional cognition]] and, by contrast, to the interactive relationship models of [[wiki/Gotham|Gotham]]. ## Collection Routes [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research]].