Above is a diagram, released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in late 2009, showing the “surge” strategy for Afghanistan. Primarily criticized as a demonstration of how complex (read: impenetrable) our strategy for Afghanistan is (and I certainly find it difficult-to-impossible to decipher, when seen at the small scale above it has a certain water-current quality.
Perhaps like this drawing by DaVinci, which I love as a kind of early data visualization (not to mention amazing drawing):
Image via: MSNBC (thanks for the tip, Aaron)
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