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Q: Independence of path in a closed curve line integral
Let $f(t)$ be a continuous function. Let $C$ be a smooth closed curve. Show that $$\oint\limits_C xf(x^2 + y^2)\,dx + y f(x^2 + y^2)\,dy = 0$$ Hint: Remember that $f(t)$ has a primitive function $F(t)$. Use this fact to construct a potential function for the vector field.

If we prove that the vector field $F(x,y) = (x \cdot f(x^2 + y^2),y \cdot f(x^2 + y^2))$ is conservative in its domain, then we can use the fact $$\int\limits_C {F \cdot dr} = \varphi (r(b)) - \varphi (r(a)) = 0$$ to express the initial line integral as a potential function difference between two points on a closed smooth curve, which would imply that any path taken between these two points would yield the same integral value.
Now in order to show that the given vector field is conservative we need to find its potential, which means we have to calculate $$\frac{d\varphi}{dx} = x \cdot f(x^2 + y^2)\text{ and }\frac{d\varphi}{dy} = y \cdot f(x^2 + y^2)$$ How can we find a potential function $\varphi (x,y)$ if we do not know the form of the function $f(x^2 + y^2)$? If we replace the argument with, say, $t = {x^2} + {y^2}$ we would need to calculate the integrals $$\frac{d\varphi}{dx} = x \cdot f(t)\text{ and }\frac{d\varphi}{dy} = y \cdot f(t)$$ but we cannot treat $f(t)$ as constant since its dependent on both variables $x$ and $y$.
What i had in mind is to show that due to symmetry $F(x,y) = F(y,x)$, which implies that a closed loop is cut evenly by two curves ${C_1}$ and ${C_2}$, their sum defines the closed loop region. $F$ is conservative vector of the field if $$\frac{d}{dy} (x \cdot f(x^2 + y^2)) = 2xyf' = \frac{d}{dx} ( y \cdot f(x^2 + y^2))$$
Now we know that the field is conservative, which implies $F = \nabla \varphi $ for some scalar potential function $\varphi $ defined over the closed loop. Therefore, $$F \cdot dr = \left( \left( \frac{d\varphi}{dx} \right)i + \left( \frac{d\varphi}{dy} \right)j \right) \cdot \left( {dxi + dyj} \right) = \frac{{d\varphi }}{{dx}}dx + \frac{{d\varphi }}{{dy}}dy = d\varphi $$ Since $C$ is a continuous smooth, closed curve, parametrized, say, by $r = r(t),\,\,\,a \le t \le b$ then $r(a) = r(b)$ and $$\int\limits_C F \cdot dr = \int\limits_a^b \frac{d\varphi (r(t))}{dt} \, dt = \varphi (r(b)) - \varphi (r(a)) = 0$$
However, i don't think that it is sufficient to claim that the given vector field is conservative based on the equality of partial derivative of its components. We still need to find a potential function i think. For example, if instead of $F(x,y) = (x \cdot f(x^2 + y^2),y \cdot f(x^2 + y^2))$ we were given a vector field, say, $F(x,y) = (x \cdot ({x^2} + {y^2}),y \cdot (x^2 + y^2))$ we could easily find its potential to be $\varphi (x,y) = \frac{x^4}{4} + \frac{x^2 y^2}{2} + \frac{y^4}{4} = \frac{1}{4} (x^2 + y^2 )^2$. Now we can take any smooth closed curve, parametrize it and show that the potential at any two points on the curve is the same, hence its difference is zero. For example, in our case we can take a unit circle and parametrize it as $x = \cos t \text{ and }y = \sin t$. Now we just chose two random points on the curve, say, $P_1(1,0) \text{ and } P_2 (0,1)$ and show that $$\oint\limits_C x(x^2 + y^2)\,dx + y(x^2 + y^2)\,dy = \left[ \frac{1}{4} ( x^2 + y^2)^2 \right]_{(1,0)}^{(0,1)} = \frac{1}{4} - \frac{1}{4} = 0$$
How to deal when we are given $f(x^2 + y^2)$ instead of a function itself?

A: Let $g(u) := \frac{1}{2}\int_0^u f(t)\, dt$. Then $$\frac{\partial}{\partial x} g(x^2 + y^2) = \frac{1}{2}f(x^2 + y^2) \frac{\partial}{\partial x}(x^2 + y^2) = xf(x^2 + y^2)$$
and similarly $$\frac{\partial}{\partial y}g(x^2 + y^2) = yf(x^2 + y^2).$$ Therefore, the vector field $xf(x^2 + y^2)\vec{i} + yf(x^2 + y^2)\vec{j}$ is the gradient of $g(x^2 + y^2)$. Hence, $$\oint_C xf(x^2 + y^2)\, dx + yf(x^2 + y^2)\, dy = 0.$$

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Q: Is initChain method useless in the file peer.go hyperledger fabric? When we invoke command peer node start to start peer node, or
command peer join channel -c xxx.block , it will invoke peer.InitChain(chainID) method in the peer.go file,
but I think the code is useless . I annotation it,and peer node doesn't have any problem. As the system code such lscc、cscc、qscc and so on have been started  using peer.go file following code:
//initialize system chaincodes
    initSysCCs()

so I think the file peer.go has the useless method InitChain(cid string) ?
the method will use the system chaincode in exectransaction.go with method
//Execute - execute proposal, return original response of chaincode
func Execute(ctxt context.Context, cccid *ccprovider.CCContext, spec interface{}) (*pb.Response, *pb.ChaincodeEvent, error) {

and finnally reaches to chaincode_support.go,
if notfy, err = chrte.handler.sendExecuteMessage(ctxt, cccid.ChainID, msg, cccid.SignedProposal, cccid.Proposal); err != nil {
    return nil, fmt.Errorf("Error sending %s: %s", msg.Type.String(), err)
}

chainID doesn't affect handler to deal with,and the invoke following:
func (handler *Handler) sendExecuteMessage(ctxt context.Context, chainID string, msg *pb.ChaincodeMessage, signedProp *pb.SignedProposal, prop *pb.Proposal) (chan *pb.ChaincodeMessage, error) {
    txctx, err := handler.createTxContext(ctxt, chainID, msg.Txid, signedProp, prop)
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    if chaincodeLogger.IsEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG) {
        chaincodeLogger.Debugf("[%s]Inside sendExecuteMessage. Message %s", shorttxid(msg.Txid), msg.Type.String())
    }

    //if security is disabled the context elements will just be nil
    if err = handler.setChaincodeProposal(signedProp, prop, msg); err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }

    chaincodeLogger.Debugf("[%s]sendExecuteMsg trigger event %s", shorttxid(msg.Txid), msg.Type)
    handler.triggerNextState(msg, true)     //**when triggerNextState, chainId field is useless.**

    return txctx.responseNotifier, nil
}

A: If you referring to the the peer.InitChain(cid string) method, so I do not think it's useless. Honestly I'm not completely sure about your explanation as it's a bit hard to follow, but this function being used upon peer initialization. E.g. the function being called from peer.Initialize(init func(string)) method to be precise here is the line:
        // Skipped rest of the code

        // Create a chain if we get a valid ledger with config block
        if err = createChain(cid, ledger, cb); err != nil {
            peerLogger.Warningf("Failed to load chain %s(%s)", cid, err)
            peerLogger.Debugf("Error reloading chain %s with message %s. We continue to the next chain rather than abort.", cid, err)
            continue
        }

        InitChain(cid)
}

The role of this method is to call for initializer which being passed in start.go:
//this brings up all the chains (including testchainid)
peer.Initialize(func(cid string) {
    logger.Debugf("Deploying system CC, for chain <%s>", cid)
    scc.DeploySysCCs(cid)
})

basically deploying system chaincodes. Please note that in peer.Initialize method assigns chainInializer, which is called via peer.InitChain.
func Initialize(init func(string)) {
    chainInitializer = init

    var cb *common.Block
    var ledger ledger.PeerLedger
    ledgermgmt.Initialize()
    ledgerIds, err := ledgermgmt.GetLedgerIDs()
    if err != nil {
        panic(fmt.Errorf("Error in initializing ledgermgmt: %s", err))
}

So to your question, no this is not useless code. Also note to the difference:
//initialize system chaincodes
initSysCCs()

implemented as following:
func initSysCCs() {
    //deploy system chaincodes
    scc.DeploySysCCs("")
    logger.Infof("Deployed system chaincodes")
}

note the fact that chainID=="", while following code:
//this brings up all the chains (including testchainid)
peer.Initialize(func(cid string) {
    logger.Debugf("Deploying system CC, for chain <%s>", cid)
    scc.DeploySysCCs(cid)
})

deploys chaincode for specific channel id, e.g. scc.DeploySysCCs(cid).
Going down the path you can spot the difference at sysccapi.go, where deploySysCC implemented as:
// deploySysCC deploys the given system chaincode on a chain
func deploySysCC(chainID string, syscc *SystemChaincode) error {
    if !syscc.Enabled || !isWhitelisted(syscc) {
        sysccLogger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("system chaincode (%s,%s) disabled", syscc.Name, syscc.Path))
        return nil
    }

    var err error

    ccprov := ccprovider.GetChaincodeProvider()

    txid := util.GenerateUUID()

    ctxt := context.Background()
    if chainID != "" {
        lgr := peer.GetLedger(chainID)
        if lgr == nil {
            panic(fmt.Sprintf("syschain %s start up failure - unexpected nil ledger for channel %s", syscc.Name, chainID))
        }

        //init can do GetState (and other Get's) even if Puts cannot be
        //be handled. Need ledger for this
        ctxt2, txsim, err := ccprov.GetContext(lgr, txid)
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }

        ctxt = ctxt2

        defer txsim.Done()
    }

    chaincodeID := &pb.ChaincodeID{Path: syscc.Path, Name: syscc.Name}
    spec := &pb.ChaincodeSpec{Type: pb.ChaincodeSpec_Type(pb.ChaincodeSpec_Type_value["GOLANG"]), ChaincodeId: chaincodeID, Input: &pb.ChaincodeInput{Args: syscc.InitArgs}}

    // First build and get the deployment spec
    chaincodeDeploymentSpec, err := buildSysCC(ctxt, spec)

    if err != nil {
        sysccLogger.Error(fmt.Sprintf("Error deploying chaincode spec: %v\n\n error: %s", spec, err))
        return err
    }

    version := util.GetSysCCVersion()

    cccid := ccprov.GetCCContext(chainID, chaincodeDeploymentSpec.ChaincodeSpec.ChaincodeId.Name, version, txid, true, nil, nil)

    _, _, err = ccprov.ExecuteWithErrorFilter(ctxt, cccid, chaincodeDeploymentSpec)

    sysccLogger.Infof("system chaincode %s/%s(%s) deployed", syscc.Name, chainID, syscc.Path)

    return err
}

Note the following peace of code inside:
    ctxt := context.Background()
    if chainID != "" {
        lgr := peer.GetLedger(chainID)
        if lgr == nil {
            panic(fmt.Sprintf("syschain %s start up failure - unexpected nil ledger for channel %s", syscc.Name, chainID))
        }

        //init can do GetState (and other Get's) even if Puts cannot be
        //be handled. Need ledger for this
        ctxt2, txsim, err := ccprov.GetContext(lgr, txid)
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }

        ctxt = ctxt2

        defer txsim.Done()
    }


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Based in Beijing, UC Forward is the only company offers services focus on Dubai real estate sales and marketing consultancy with a specialisation in the Chinese market. UC Forward has also operated in Dubai since 2016, hence the company provides a comprehensive solution for Dubai developers entering into the Chinese market.
According to figures from the Dubai Land Department, Chinese investors contributed over AED10 billion to Dubai's real estate market the past 4 years. Estimates showed that the Chinese population in Dubai has seen rapid growth by 53 per cent over the last 5 years, and Chinese expats run at least 4,000 companies in the UAE.
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Girl attacked by pit bull at north Houston apartment complex
By Keith Garvin - Anchor/Reporter
HOUSTON - The wounds from her attack Monday are still very evident Tuesday.
Madeisyn Brooks, 9, was the main victim of a pit bull attack.
The dog also bit one of her sisters and a man who came to her rescue. When the animal grabbed Madeisyn by her braids and started biting, she wasn't sure she would make it through the attack alive.
"I'm never going to see my family again," she said she was thinking at the time.
The first person who came to her aid was Tina Morgan.
Morgan says she was being shown the Villa Springs Apartments on Blue Ash Drive near I-45 and Ella Boulevard in north Houston by a manager when she heard commotion by the playground and saw the dog biting Madiesyn.
Someone nearby had some sort of stick, which Morgan used to hit the dog to stop the attack.
"I never would let him get a hold of her again. I just kept hitting him, trying not to hit the baby too," Morgan said. "Then, all of a sudden, some guy came and grabbed the dog by the throat, picked him up, getting bit his self, and we were able to get the baby over to the side."
Madeisyn and her mother are thankful for Morgan's actions but disappointed that a number of other adults were nearby but didn't step in to help themselves.
"If it wasn't for her (Morgan), my daughter would not be here," Madeisyn's mother Dekoven Daniel said. "You have people standing in the porch, I'm told, grown people standing on the porch, watching a dog attack your child and they have children."
Animal control took the dog away and will quarantine it for 10 days. No one has come forward to claim the animal.
Madeisyn's family said the dog also attacked and killed their kitten the day before the attack on Madeisyn.
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Flautist Jane Rutter presents a fiery showcase of Latin American works and an Indian Raga in Tango! Raga! Habanera! the final concert of the popular Live at Lunch concert series on The Concourse in Chatswood.
Accompanied by harpist Owen Torr, classical guitarist Guiseppe Zangari and accordion virtuoso Marcello Maio – from famed gypsy fusion band, Monsieur Camembert, these spectacular musicians will perform classical flamenco-inspired habaneras, as well as a selection of evocative works by Astor Piazzolla, Ravi Shankar and Colin Brumby.
Jane Rutter is a virtuosic disciple of French flute masters Jean-Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion, a concert soloist, and recording artist. Performing across classical, multi-media and cabaret style concerts, Jane is renowned for her on-stage warmth and technical skill.
After the concert, audience members can join Jane for a special lunch onstage in The Concourse Concert Hall. To register, visit The Concourse Box Office or theconcourse.com.au
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Bacterial colonization of bioabsorbable barrier material and periodontal regeneration
M. De Sanctis, G. Zucchelli, C. Clauser
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY WAS TO evaluate bacterial colonization of the tooth-facing surface of bioabsorbable membranes and to determine its effect on the clinical outcome of membrane supported reconstructive periodontal surgery. Twenty systemically healthy subjects affected by chronic adult periodontitis were enrolled in the study. One non-furcation tooth site per patient, associated with an angular bony defect and a probing attachment loss of > 5 mm, was selected to be treated by means of a guided tissue regeneration procedure using a polyglicolactic membrane. Antibiotics (amoxicillin/clavulanate potassium 1 g per day) for 2 weeks were prescribed, in addition to the use of chlorhexidine for post-surgical plaque control. All patients were recalled once a week for 5 weeks for professional tooth cleaning. At 5 weeks sites with clinically exposed membranes underwent a second surgery to harvest residual barrier material which was analyzed by scanning electronic microscopic (SEM) for bacterial colonization. Sites with no membrane exposure at 5 weeks were allowed to heal without any other surgical intervention. Professional tooth cleaning and reinforcement of self-performed oral hygiene measures were given at 1 month intervals for the duration of the study. For each treated site the difference in probing attachment loss between baseline examination and a follow-up examination made 6 months after the second surgery was calculated. Gain of probing attachment was statistically (P <0.001) greater in sites with no membrane exposure when compared to sites with partially exposed barrier material (4.2 ± 0.5 vs. 3.3 ± 0.6). The results of SEM analysis revealed that bacterial colonization was evident in all the microscopic fields of the exposed areas of the membranes. In the mid-part of the membranes 16 out of 39 microscopic fields (41%) demonstrated microbial colonization, while no bacteria-positive field was observed in the most apical portion of the membranes. Regression analysis indicated that gain in probing attachment level was negatively correlated to microbial colonization of the mid-part of the membranes. It was suggested the mid-portion of the tooth-facing surface of polyglicolactic membrane is a critical area for the healing process since its bacterial colonization was detrimental to the outcome of the GTR surgery.
Chronic Periodontitis
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures
Guided Tissue Regeneration
Clavulanic Acid
Colonization, bacterial
Membranes, artificial
Membranes, barrier
Outcome assessment
Periodontal diseases/surgery
Dentistry(all)
De Sanctis, M., Zucchelli, G., & Clauser, C. (1996). Bacterial colonization of bioabsorbable barrier material and periodontal regeneration. Journal of Periodontology, 67(11), 1193-1200.
Bacterial colonization of bioabsorbable barrier material and periodontal regeneration. / De Sanctis, M.; Zucchelli, G.; Clauser, C.
In: Journal of Periodontology, Vol. 67, No. 11, 11.1996, p. 1193-1200.
De Sanctis, M, Zucchelli, G & Clauser, C 1996, 'Bacterial colonization of bioabsorbable barrier material and periodontal regeneration', Journal of Periodontology, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 1193-1200.
De Sanctis M, Zucchelli G, Clauser C. Bacterial colonization of bioabsorbable barrier material and periodontal regeneration. Journal of Periodontology. 1996 Nov;67(11):1193-1200.
De Sanctis, M. ; Zucchelli, G. ; Clauser, C. / Bacterial colonization of bioabsorbable barrier material and periodontal regeneration. In: Journal of Periodontology. 1996 ; Vol. 67, No. 11. pp. 1193-1200.
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package org.realityforge.ssf;

import java.util.concurrent.CyclicBarrier;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReadWriteLock;
import org.realityforge.guiceyloops.server.AssertUtil;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import static org.testng.Assert.*;

public class SimpleSessionManagerTest
{
  @Test
  public void isCdiType()
  {
    AssertUtil.assertNoFinalMethodsForCDI( SimpleSessionManager.class );
    AssertUtil.assertNoFinalMethodsForCDI( InMemorySessionManager.class );
  }

  @Test
  public void basicWorkflow()
    throws Exception
  {
    final SimpleSessionManager sm = new SimpleSessionManager();
    assertEquals( sm.getSessionKey(), "sid" );
    assertEquals( sm.getSessionIDs().size(), 0 );
    assertEquals( sm.getSession( "MySessionID" ), null );
    final SessionInfo sessionInfo = sm.createSession();
    assertNotNull( sessionInfo );
    assertNull( sessionInfo.getUserID() );
    assertNotNull( sessionInfo.getSessionID() );
    assertEquals( sm.getSessionIDs().size(), 1 );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getAttribute( "Username" ), null );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getAttributeKeys().size(), 0 );
    sessionInfo.setAttribute( "Username", "Bob" );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getAttribute( "Username" ), "Bob" );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getAttributeKeys().size(), 1 );
    sessionInfo.removeAttribute( "Username" );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getAttribute( "Username" ), null );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getAttributeKeys().size(), 0 );
    assertEquals( sessionInfo.getCreatedAt(), sessionInfo.getLastAccessedAt() );
    assertTrue( System.currentTimeMillis() - sessionInfo.getCreatedAt() < 100L );
    assertTrue( System.currentTimeMillis() - sessionInfo.getLastAccessedAt() < 100L );
    Thread.sleep( 1 );

    // Make sure we can also get it thorugh the map interface
    assertEquals( sm.getSessions().get( sessionInfo.getSessionID() ), sessionInfo );

    // The next line should update the last accessed time too!
    assertEquals( sm.getSession( sessionInfo.getSessionID() ), sessionInfo );
    assertNotEquals( sessionInfo.getCreatedAt(), sessionInfo.getLastAccessedAt() );

    assertTrue( sm.invalidateSession( sessionInfo.getSessionID() ) );
    assertEquals( sm.getSessionIDs().size(), 0 );
    assertFalse( sm.invalidateSession( sessionInfo.getSessionID() ) );
    assertNull( sm.getSession( sessionInfo.getSessionID() ) );
  }

  @Test
  public void locking()
    throws Exception
  {
    final SimpleSessionManager sm = new SimpleSessionManager();
    final ReadWriteLock lock = sm.getLock();

    // Variable used to pass data back from threads
    final SimpleSessionInfo[] sessions = new SimpleSessionInfo[ 2 ];

    lock.readLock().lock();

    // Make sure createSession can not complete if something has a read lock
    final CyclicBarrier end = go( new Runnable()
    {
      @Override
      public void run()
      {
        sessions[ 0 ] = sm.createSession();
      }
    } );

    assertNull( sessions[ 0 ] );
    lock.readLock().unlock();
    end.await();
    assertNotNull( sessions[ 0 ] );

    lock.writeLock().lock();

    // Make sure getSession can acquire a read lock
    final CyclicBarrier end2 = go( new Runnable()
    {
      @Override
      public void run()
      {
        sessions[ 1 ] = sm.getSession( sessions[ 0 ].getSessionID() );
      }
    } );

    assertNull( sessions[ 1 ] );
    lock.writeLock().unlock();
    end2.await();
    assertNotNull( sessions[ 1 ] );

    lock.readLock().lock();

    final Boolean[] invalidated = new Boolean[ 1 ];
    // Make sure createSession can not complete if something has a read lock
    final CyclicBarrier end3 = go( new Runnable()
    {
      @Override
      public void run()
      {
        invalidated[ 0 ] = sm.invalidateSession( sessions[ 0 ].getSessionID() );
      }
    } );

    assertNull( invalidated[ 0 ] );
    lock.readLock().unlock();
    end3.await();
    assertEquals( invalidated[ 0 ], Boolean.TRUE );
  }

  private CyclicBarrier go( final Runnable target )
    throws Exception
  {
    final CyclicBarrier start = new CyclicBarrier( 2 );
    final CyclicBarrier stop = new CyclicBarrier( 2 );
    new Thread( new Runnable()
    {
      @Override
      public void run()
      {
        try
        {
          start.await();
          target.run();
          stop.await();
        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
          // Ignored
        }
      }
    } ).start();
    start.await();
    Thread.sleep( 1 );
    return stop;
  }

  @Test
  public void removeIdleSessions()
    throws Exception
  {
    final SimpleSessionManager sm = new SimpleSessionManager();
    final SimpleSessionInfo session = sm.createSession();
    final long accessedAt = session.getLastAccessedAt();
    while ( System.currentTimeMillis() == accessedAt )
    {
      Thread.yield();
    }
    final int removeCount = sm.removeIdleSessions( 10000 );
    assertEquals( removeCount, 0 );
    assertEquals( sm.getSessions().get( session.getSessionID() ), session );

    final int removeCount2 = sm.removeIdleSessions( 0 );
    assertEquals( removeCount2, 1 );
    assertNull( sm.getSessions().get( session.getSessionID() ) );
  }
}

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Q: помогите пожалуйста выдает ошибку " b[i] = str(b[i[0: 9]]) TypeError: 'int' object is not subscriptable" st = input("Введите строку из нескольких слов, разделённых пробелами:__")
a = 1
b = st.split(" ")
for i in range(len(b)):
    if len(b[i]) > 10:
        b[i] = b[i[0: 9]]
    print(f"{a} - {b[i]}")
    a += 1

Пользователь вводит строку из нескольких слов, разделённых пробелами.
Вывести каждое слово с новой строки.
Строки необходимо пронумеровать.
Если в слово длинное, выводить только первые 10 букв в слове.

A: Я нашел решение нужно немного видоизменить 6 строчку
    b[i] = b[i][: 10]

A: Ваша ошибка была в это строке b[i] = b[i[0: 9]]. Вы пытаетесь сделать срез индекса i[0: 9], а это целочисленное значение срез по которому невозможен, вот интерпретатор и ругается. Можно было так b[i][:10]. (конечный индекс не включительно)
Вот немного улучшенная версия вашего кода:
string = input("Введите строку из нескольких слов, разделённых пробелами:__")
counter = 1
splitted = string.split()
for word in splitted:
    if len(word) > 10:
        print(f"{counter} - {word[:10]}")
    else:
        print(f"{counter} - {word}")
    counter += 1

A: Проблему уже указали - неправильная индексация. Можно написать совсем без индексации (enumerate). И слова обрабатывать срезами не обязательно, f-строки умеют форматировать их правильно:
s = input("Введите строку из нескольких слов, разделённых пробелами:__")
for i, w in enumerate(s.split(), start=1):
    print(f'{i} - {w:.10}')

$ python words.py
Введите строку из нескольких слов, разделённых пробелами:__11111111111111111111 222 333
1 - 1111111111
2 - 222
3 - 333


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License Global Honors 19 Female Leaders Who Have Markedly Impacted Licensing Industry with Inaugural "The Influentials" List
– December 14, 2017 –
December 2017 Issue Also Highlights Up-and-Coming Female Licensing Leaders; Top Women-Led Brand Licensing Agencies
Santa Monica, California – License Global Magazine, the most widely read and respected publication in the licensing industry, today released its inaugural "The Influentials" list, which honors women who have impacted the licensing industry in a significant way. The honorees are established industry leaders from highly-respected companies including CAA-GBG, IMG Licensing and Warner Bros. The December 2017 issue also recognizes 58 up-and-coming female leaders as part of the magazine's "Gamechangers" list, which recognizes those who are making a mark on the business
of brand licensing, as well as 32 leading licensing agencies around the world that are helmed by women. Known for its keen pulse on the industry, License Global Magazine also hosts the NYC Summit, which takes place February 20, 2018 at the Convene event venue in New York City's Times Square. For more information about the event and to register, please visit www.nyclicensingsummit.com.
"Licensing is a dynamic and rapidly-evolving business, and the women represented on our first-ever 'The Influentials' list are a testament to the incredible trajectory in store for our industry," said Steven Ekstract, Group Publisher, License Global Magazine. "As the voice of the licensing industry, we felt it was critical to shine a light on the incredible wins these leaders and women-led agencies achieve every day. I encourage anyone who interacts with the licensing industry to take a close look at these women and their accomplishments, as I have no doubt we'll continue to see their work at the front and center of our business."
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It could be anything from "cornucopia" to "tarpaulin" — just make sure it's memorable (and that your real estate agent is in on the plan).
Open houses are totally fun. You get to walk around in someone else's place and pretend it's your own. You're not thinking about mortgage payments or roof repairs. You're there in the moment — dreaming of the possibilities and just loving the current owner's choice of decor.
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Tiny Heart Pump, Specialized Care Saved His Life
Miguel Machin, 48, says he owes his life to a collaborative effort by specialized physicians and nurses at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute at Baptist Hospital that began soon after he entered the ER with a 170 beats-per-minute heart rate.
Last December, he spent 12 days deeply sedated on intravenous medication while on respiratory support as doctors worked to restore a normal heartbeat. Mr. Machin was morbidly obese with an "ejection fraction" (EF) at 15 percent and he was in "cardiogenic shock," the condition in which the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the body's needs. EF refers to how much blood the heart's left ventricle pumps out with each contraction. A normal EF is 50 to 70 percent.
"You could tell by the look on the faces of the doctors and nurses that it was very serious," recalls Machin's wife, Lissette. "With a heartbeat of 170, he was getting more agitated. They had no choice but to induce coma."
Best Christmas Gift
Mr. Machin, a pharmacist and father of two girls, ages 3 and 6, remembers waking up from his ordeal on Dec. 24 in a bustling ICU. He now calls it the best Christmas gift.
"Everyday, I had doctors come into the room. I mostly didn't know who they were, but the care in the ICU was excellent," says Mr. Machin. "I'm very happy that I was there. Everybody provided the best attention."
Leading Mr. Machin's treatment was Ramon Lloret, M.D., an interventional cardiologist at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida.
"His heart was in very poor shape, but because of his morbid obesity and other conditions including kidney failure, he was not a candidate for a heart transplant," says Dr. Lloret, whose team opted to restore proper blood flow in Machin's heart with the help of an Impella, the world's smallest heart pump (illustration at left).
World's Smallest Heart Pump
The Impella is a device that temporarily helps patients move blood through the heart and into the rest of the organs in the body. It provides patients with heart failure, such as Mr. Machin, another option when open heart surgery or transplantation isn't possible. It can also assist the heart while doing a high risk revascularization procedure of the heart, such as placement of a coronary stent.
Dr. Lloret and Libby Watch, M.D., a vascular surgeon at the Institute, took part in the procedure to implant the Impella device into Machin. The tiny pump can be inserted via a catheterization procedure through the femoral, subclavian or axiliary artery, into the ascending aorta, across the valve and into the heart's left ventricle. The Impella CP can provide 4 liters per minute of blood flow, suctioning blood out of the left ventricular and into the aorta.
"With the device, we were able to maintain cardiac output," explains Dr. Lloret. "We were then able to lower the amount of pressor medications that he needed to maintain his blood pressure. That enabled us to treat the arrhythmia (rapid or irregular heartbeat)."
The tiny pump enabled Mario Pascual, M.D., an electrophysiologist with Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, and his team to perform an ablation on Machin.
A catheter ablation, such as the one performed on Mr. Machin, uses radiofrequency energy (similar to microwave heat) to eliminate abnormal electrical signals within the heart. Ablating this tissue helps restore a heart's regular rhythm. His heart rate then maintained in a normal sinus rhythm.
'I Feel Good'
Following extensive rehabilitation, Mr. Machin has been able to restore his EF back to a normal 50 percent. He has lost weight and has been able to recuperate his kidney function, which was also affected by his heart failure.
"I feel good," says Mr. Machin. "I'm able to do the majority of things, taking it day-by-day. Every day, I'm getting better and my endurance is improving."
Dr. Lloret says it was a collaborative effort from the Institute's specialists as well as the intensivists and nephrologists that enabled Mr. Machin to recover. "It's really a feel-good story," he says.
"It was amazing," recalls Machin's wife, Lissette, a first-grade teacher. "We celebrated Christmas when he came home in February. We're now able to go on mini vacations. He can walk and goes to the beach. And the girls have their dad back. "
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Asset tracking labels are vital in order to know what you have on hand at your business. After all, if you don't label what you have available in storage or in a warehouse, you'll have to spend hours trying to identify what's in each box and on every shelf. Without labels, your employees will be stuck trying to figure out what's going on by themselves, which can be disastrous. If they don't know what they're doing, they could break valuable assets.
Here are some problems you'll have to deal with if you don't label what you have on hand.
No matter what you have on hand, there's no way you can keep everything out in the open. That means you will need to find a way to store all of your assets. Without a proper labeling system, your employees will spend countless hours trying to locate what they need. Even if you put someone in charge of remembering what you have on hand, other employees will need to spend time trying to contact that person. It's better to avoid the problem entirely and use labels.
There's no guarantee that all of your employees will know exactly what each asset does. If they find an item, but don't know what it is, they'll have to spend additional time trying to find someone who can figure it out. Your employees then run the risk of not being able to figure out who knows how to use each asset. Even if there is someone at your company who does know, there's no guarantee they will be on hand.
As mentioned before, not everyone will know what each asset does if you don't have asset tracking labels to clear up any confusion. This could lead to your employees wasting time trying to figure out how each asset works and the best way to apply it to their workflow.
If your employees don't know how to use the assets on hand, there's a serious risk they could break something you invested a lot of money in. Most of the time, they don't mean to break company assets. However, if they don't know what it is, they likely won't be able to figure out how to use it. And without a clear idea of how to use it, they could break off a valuable part and render it useless.
Instead of running the risk of any of these problems from coming true, you can avoid all of them by using clearly labeled asset tags. You might want to use barcodes in your asset tags so your employees can pull up everything they'll need to know about the asset they're using. Barcodes are a great way to store asset data like what it is, how it's used, and when it was last maintained. This information will help your employees know how to apply the asset and get the most use out of it.
When your employees know what to expect in asset usage, they can quickly identify which assets will be most beneficial for specific work tasks. Knowing what tools to use is a great way to speed up work processes, and get more use out of available work time.


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Iraqi Crisis Ebbs as Sunnis Return to Cabinet
By Sam Dagher
Updated Feb. 8, 2012 12:01 am ET
BAGHDAD—The main Sunni partner in Iraq's Shiite-led coalition government ended an almost eight-week boycott of cabinet meetings, dialing down tensions in a crisis that erupted hours after the departure of the last U.S. soldier in December.
The decision by the Iraqiya political faction on Tuesday followed its move last week to suspend a boycott of parliament, and comes after pressure and lobbying by U.S. diplomats in Baghdad and senior officials in Washington, including Vice President Joe Biden.
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Auto Italia in collaboration with Cinenova present Bodies Assembling, a series of screenings and workshops featuring moving image work selected by invited artists and activists.
Bodies Assembling strives to facilitate multiple readings or viewings of historical works from a current perspective, screening older film and video works from Cinenova's collection alongside recent artistic and filmmaking practices. The construction of a temporary cinematic site at Auto Italia's space will allow a discourse to develop that builds new relationships and knowledge.
Engaging with Auto Italia and Cinenova both as organisations but also as active communities of artists, the programme will express a range of diverse viewpoints on the struggles and feminisms present in the material distributed by Cinenova. Bodies Assembling encourages discussion, collaborative practice and alternative approaches to the production and distribution of culture through film and video work.
Cinenova is the only women's film distributor in Europe tracing a feminist film history from the early 20th Century. It is a charitable organisation currently run voluntarily by the Cinenova Working Group.
Bodies Assembling acts as a forum to consider the contemporary legacy of the film and video work distributed by Cinenova reflecting on the similarities and differences of filmmaking and its various economic and political contexts.
Activism, street actions and filmmaking; A Fantasy Whitehall and a historical insight into British women's participation in the Olympics. Presented by Althea Greenan, curator of the Women's Art Library (Make) at Goldsmiths.
This screening follows on from 'Women Artists, Feminism in the 80s and Now': Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, December 3rd 10-5pm.
Presented by makers of 'Life, Love and HIV', a video developed by 'Adults living with HIV' at Body & Soul, a pioneering UK charity dedicated to transforming the lives of children, teenagers and families living with, or affected by HIV. This screening is an exploration of media representations of discussions about and 'for' people who are affected by or living with HIV, in the context of current government cuts for funding HIV education, awareness and prevention in the UK.
"They struggle not only for the idea of social support and political enfranchisement, but their struggle takes on a social form of its own" – Judith Butler, Bodies in Alliance.
A selection of films presented by Emma Hedditch and Melissa Castagnetto (Cinenova Working Group).
A workshop on how to operate a 16mm film projector presented by Kerstin Schroedinger. The workshop will be followed by a screening in which the participants are all responsible for the projection.
"Sitting with her at the table, talking, her hands poised over the typewriter. The words in our minds, turning between description and analysis – to write the image, or to write about an image." – Felicity Sparrow and Lis Rhodes 1983.
The first four films acquired by Circles distribution, which later became Cinenova.
Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford present a selection of films which highlight the political stakes of the 1980s, when women's relationships with technology and the world of work were addressed head on. The survey documents the variety of strategies used in political and personal engagements with the moving image, and have been chosen to challenge our relationship to the 'unfinished business' of feminism.
Did I say Hairdressing? I meant Astrophysics, Leeds Animation Workshop, UK , 1998, 14mins.
A performative screening organised by Rachal Bradley, Kate Cooper, Leslie Kulesh and Jess Weisner.
A presentation of two film works representing transgendered people. The works explore a possibility to transform the film-making process to find new vocabularies that challenge the notion of the 'universal'. The screening will be accompanied by two texts from Irene Revell (Cinenova Working Group) and an interview between Richard John Jones (Auto Italia), Michael Oswell and Terre Thaemlitz. Read the interview text HERE.
An open discussion with Huw Lemmey and Nina Wakeford following on from the issues raised by their previous screening.
The Archivist and Acting Director of the Lambeth Women's Project, Ego Ahaiwe, will respond to Cinenova's claims to represent women's film and video considering what has been left/kept out. The Cinenova catalogue is largely representing work by White European and White North American women. This event will ask how and why this collection has preserved and, to a large extent, maintained the excluding systems that formed it. This screening and subsequent workshop seeks to explore possible formulas, structures and frameworks that would transform the status quo.
This project was made possible though support from Arts Council England.


New Mermory Expanding Tool and Preinstalled CCcam 2.2.1 - PPfix: Movie information using Info button.
This will allow you to install alot more Plugins without concerning about free flash memory!
New installed Plugins/Extension will automaticly be placed in this location after activating this funktion.
IMPORTANT: Remember, first mount the device you what to use, is not recommended to use harddisk.
To get it working, place right size lcd picon in right folder, it can be used from different storages.
LCD Picons for Thor (0.8W) and Sirius (4.8E) is possible to download for USB and CF.
and you can use your normal colerd picons (100x60) in the display, no need for special folder or Picon.
NOTE: YOU CAN NOT USE 2.2 AS MULTIBOOT IMAGE ON 2.0 BECAUSE OF NEW DRIVER.
Use Backup system settings from Software Manage in Tool menu and 2.2 can be used in less than 10. min.
Your multiboot images who previously worked, will also work now.
We still need help if you want Neverland image translated in to you own language.
Peter Pan Team hope you will enjoy our new images.
NOTE: YOU CAN NOT USE 2.3 AS MULTIBOOT IMAGE BECAUSE OF NEW DRIVER.


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Image credit: CNAS
Why America Needs a New Way of War
By Chris Dougherty
For the first time in decades, it is possible to imagine the United States fighting—and possibly losing—a large-scale war with a great power. For generations of Americans accustomed to U.S. military superiority and its ability to deter major wars, the idea of armed conflict between great powers may seem highly improbable. The idea that the United States—with the most expensive armed forces in the world by a wide margin—might lose such a war would seem absolutely preposterous. Nevertheless, the possibility of war and U.S. defeat are real and growing.
Given that U.S. armed forces' last major conventional combat operations were the massively lopsided victories against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 1991 and 2003, many Americans might be wondering how this could come to pass. This report makes the case that one salient issue is that the American way of war—the implicit and explicit mental framework for U.S. military strategy and operations—that coalesced after the Gulf War is no longer valid.
China and Russia have spent almost two decades studying the current American way of war. While the Department of Defense (DoD) has taken its military superiority for granted and focused on defeating nonstate adversaries, China and Russia have been devising strategies and developing new concepts and weapons to defeat the United States in a war should the need arise. They have offset their relative weakness versus the United States by using time and geography to their advantage and by focusing their weapons- and concept-development efforts on finding ways to attack vulnerable nodes in U.S. military operations. The goal of these strategies and concepts is to create a plausible theory of victory whereby China or Russia avoid a "fair fight" with the Joint Force and could therefore defeat the United States and its allies and partners in a regional war. These Chinese and Russian strategies, which once seemed implausible or far in the future, are beginning to pay off. They are shifting military balances in key regions and pushing allies and partners to reconsider U.S. security guarantees.
"America's military has no preordained right to victory on the battlefield."
2018 National Defense Strategy [1]
The declining U.S. military advantage in key regions and the increasing plausibility of the Chinese and Russian theories of victory animated the development of the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS). The NDS realized that, absent an effort to reshape U.S. military strategy, operational thinking, and consequent force design; the DoD and the Joint Force would face increasing difficulty ensuring favorable balances of power in key regions like East Asia and Europe; countering Chinese and Russian coercion below the level of overt conflict; deterring Chinese and Russian attacks on allies and key partners; and, should deterrence fail, defeating Chinese and Russian aggression. Put more simply, the NDS and efforts like the Third Offset Strategy that preceded it are a flashing warning signal to the DoD, the Joint Force, Congress, and the American people that there are fundamental flaws in the current American way of war.
The potential consequences of these flaws are profound. The possibility of U.S. military defeat, or even the perception that defeat is plausible, could begin to unravel the United States' constellation of alliances and partnerships as allies and partners begin to hedge their bets on U.S. security guarantees. These relationships have helped the United States maintain a global order that for decades has made Americans secure, prosperous, and free.
Despite the warning signals and the dire consequences, changes to U.S. military strategy and operational thinking have been incremental, lethargic, and too focused on finding "silver bullet" technological solutions. Developing a new American way of war will require some shifts in resources and material, but at its core it is an intellectual challenge. Most efforts to drive change have done so with the goal of finding a way to make the current American way of war work again the way it did in Iraq in 1991 and 2003.
There is no going back to the post–Cold War era of U.S. military dominance. The DoD, the Joint Force, and the broader defense establishment have to come to grips with the systemic nature of the challenges posed by China and Russia. America needs a way of war that isn't predicated on historically anomalous imbalances in national power, but rather is suited for long-term competition with great powers with capable militaries and substantial non-military power.
The challenges posed by China and Russia are real and difficult, but American military thinkers have faced and bested similar challenges in the past. Previous generations of American military professionals won a two-front global war against Germany and Japan, built the intellectual framework for great-power competition and deterrence in the shadow of nuclear annihilation, and developed the technologies and concepts that underwrote U.S. military superiority from the end of the Cold War until today.
This paper is the opening salvo in an effort to solve the central military strategic problem facing this generation of American military professionals and policymakers. It aims to focus military thinking and policymaking on the most critical issues, while also serving as the intellectual basis for developing a new American way of war. Given the urgency of the challenge and the consequences of failure, it is the duty of every American defense professional to sustain U.S. strategic advantages and pass them on to the next generation.
"If we want everything to stay as it is, everything will have to change."
From The Leopard, by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa [2]
At first blush, a novel about the unification of Italy in the 19th century seems an odd fit with 21st-century American military strategy. And yet this sentence, about how Sicily's nobles could hold their position only by aligning with the liberal revolution against the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, is a good metaphor for the paradoxes facing American military strategists, analysts, and planners. The United States is a status quo power navigating a period of disruptive change, or what Thomas Kuhn might have called a paradigm shift in the security environment.3 Sustaining America's military advantage will therefore require changing everything about how U.S. armed forces fight. Some changes may need to be radical, while many may be subtle. However, they must all flow from new assumptions about the character of modern warfare and the challenges facing the Joint Force.
Unfortunately, the DoD's responses to the many challenges posed by the emerging security environment have thus far been piecemeal and lethargic, largely because the Pentagon has failed to fully grasp the systemic nature and fundamental implications of the problem it faces: The American way of war that emerged following the Cold War will not work in an era of great-power competition.4 It rests on a foundation of strategic and operational assumptions that were the product of an anomalous historical period of unchallenged U.S. military dominance.5 The assumptions from that period are now deeply flawed or wholly invalid and must be updated for an era of great-power competition.
Profound change is necessary given the potential consequences of failure.
This has led to the situation in which U.S. armed forces are the most powerful in the world by a wide margin, and yet they increasingly run the risk of losing a future war with China or Russia.6 The root of the problem is the DoD's unwillingness thus far to fully come to grips with the reality that its principal competitors are no longer regional threats such as the Iraqs and Yugoslavias of the world, but rather great powers with advanced military forces and the ability to match U.S. escalation. The problems and risks that spread from that root assumption in our current way of war cross every domain and every function when applied to great-power competitors. The erosion of U.S. military advantage vis-à-vis China and Russia was a symptom of this infection, and the need to reverse it was the animating thrust of the National Defense Strategy. The change in emphasis wrought by the NDS is beginning to infiltrate the thinking and resourcing of the DoD and the military services, but overcoming 30 years of ingrained practices will not happen overnight.
Absent an effort to reshape U.S. military strategy, operational thinking, and consequent force design, the DoD will be unlikely to meet the NDS's mandate to prevail in the long-term competition with China and, to a lesser extent, Russia by ensuring rough balances of power in East Asia and Europe, respectively. More bluntly, the United States risks losing a plausible war or backing down when faced with one, with devastating strategic consequences. By setting conditions slowly over time, moving rapidly to seize key objectives before the United States or its allies and partners can respond, then offering to negotiate (while threatening to escalate), China and Russia could see a path to effectively using military force to harm vital U.S. national interests. Both China and Russia are pursuing such fait accompli strategies and developing supporting capabilities designed to offset the aggregate military superiority and "way of war" of the United States and its constellation of allies and partners.
This image shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from the perspective of an Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft. The unwillingness of the United States to adopt a combat-credible posture in the Pacific contributed to a failure of deterrence and left U.S. forces scrambling to respond to Japan's offensive strategy. (U.S. Navy, NH 50930)
How the Joint Force plans to fight in these types of scenarios is critical to the credibility of U.S. deterrence, the cohesion of U.S.-led coalitions, and the plausibility of the U.S. theory of victory. A military strategy that relies primarily on escalation may not provide a credible deterrent to Chinese or Russian coercion or limited-war strategies, particularly given China and Russia's nuclear weapons and other means of strategic escalation.7 A military strategy that cedes too much territory or fails to defend key allies and partners may have difficulty keeping a coalition together and may not provide a strong position for negotiation.
This problem is tractable, but addressing it will require profound change. This change must follow a coherent logic based on the foundation laid by the NDS. When faced with great-power competitors like China and Russia, the United States cannot afford to throw resources around without a clear strategy and priorities. The Defense budgets for fiscal year 2019 and 2020 take modest steps in the right direction, but they still reflect pre-NDS priorities in many ways. While some inertia and resistance to change is to be expected—a new Joint Force will not be built in a single budget—the evident lack of focus should be an area of concern. The NDS clearly prioritizes the need to deter and, if necessary, defeat Chinese and Russian aggression. What's needed now is for the DoD to define the next layer of detail on the military strategy and operational concepts—i.e., a new way of war—necessary to realize this objective, not continued debate over the fundamental precepts of the strategy.
Profound change is necessary given the potential consequences of failure. The United States and its allies and partners created the present global order after almost four decades of great-power competition and warfare that caused unimaginable death, destruction, and human suffering. This order survived and evolved through 40 years of competition with the Soviet Union and gave way to a post–Cold War era that, while not perfect, saw enormous expansions in democracy, personal liberty, human rights, and economic opportunity across the globe. There were costs and setbacks to leading and maintaining the global order, but leadership has benefited the United States and the American people enormously in the form of security, freedom from foreign coercion, and economic prosperity.
A U.S. soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank weapon as part of Saber Strike 16 near Tapa, Estonia, on June 19, 2016. Combined, joint training exercises such as Saber Strike help contribute to deterrence by improving interoperability and demonstrating resolve. (Ben Houtkooper/DoD Flickr)
Today, the global order is weakening. Many in the United States and allied and partner nations only see the costs and burdens of this order in the form of military obligations, regulations, and multilateral organizations. The benefits are often diffuse and the original catastrophes that spurred its creation are increasingly lost in the mists of history. Meanwhile, China seeks to create an alternative Sino-centric order in Asia, and Russia seeks to undermine the U.S.-led order at every turn. Should these efforts prove successful, it could mark a return to the harsh zero-sum competitions between political-economic blocs that led to global cataclysms in the past. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the history of the early 20th century may not be repeating itself today, but it certainly appears to be rhyming.
U.S. armed forces—through their ability to deter or defeat aggression, enforce rules of the road, and maintain alliance cohesion—are critical to sustaining the U.S.-led global order. This is by no means an easy or inexpensive task, and the American people are right to enquire about the utility of these expenses. The empirical data are quite clear on this point. Deterring war by preparing to defeat aggression is expensive, but its costs pale in comparison to fighting a war—particularly a war with a great power. Thus, while developing a new American way of war may not be cheap, it is vastly preferable to the alternative.
Absent an effort to reshape U.S. military strategy, operational thinking, and consequent force design, the DoD will be unlikely to meet the NDS's mandate to prevail in the long-term competition with China and, to a lesser extent, Russia.
This paper is intended to lay the intellectual foundation for developing a new American way of war. Its primary purpose is to identify the problems this new way of war is attempting to solve. Secretary of Defense James Mattis was fond of quoting Albert Einstein's remark that if you have an hour to save the world, you should spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute to solve it.8 This paper represents the "problem definition" for a new American "way of war." Accordingly, it will first define the concept of a "way of war" and explain why it is important. Then it will situate the discussion within the strategic context of the NDS, which provides the vision for U.S. defense strategy in an era of great-power competition. The body of the paper will examine the current American way of war, the key assumptions that underpin it, and why these are no longer valid, and the assumptions that ought to guide a new American way of war.
Department of Defense, Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America: Sharpening the American Military's Competitive Edge (2018), 1, https://dod.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018-National-Defense-Strategy-Summary.pdf. ↩
Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa, The Leopard: a Novel (Il Gattopardo) (Pantheon: New York, 1960), 28. The original Italian uses the phrase "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga comè, bisogna che tutto cambi," which literally translates to "If we want everything to remain how it is, it's necessary that everything changes." The English version translates this as "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change," which is much less evocative. ↩
White House, National Security Strategy of the United States of America (December 2017), https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf; "Remarks by Secretary Mattis on the National Defense Strategy," Department of Defense, press release, January 19, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf. I am indebted to Dr. Mara Karlin for the idea that the end of the post–Cold War era marks a paradigm shift. For more on paradigm shifts, see Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962). ↩
"Despite all the growing challenges to longstanding U.S. approaches to overseas power projection posed by a maturing precision-strike regime, the American military has shown little inclination to embrace fundamentally new operational concepts or organizational arrangements to deal with the looming obstacles. Instead, the military services have largely taken evolving American capabilities for reconnaissance strike and layered them onto existing operational concepts and organizations." See Barry D. Watts, "The Evolution of Precision Strike" (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2013), 33, https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/the-evolution-of-precision-strike. ↩
See David Ochmanek, "Sustaining U.S. Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region: Why a Strategy of Direct Defense Against Antiaccess and Area Denial Threats Is Desirable and Feasible" (RAND Corporation, 2015), 3-7, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE142.html; David Ochmanek, "Restoring U.S. Power Projection Capabilities: Responding to the 2018 National Defense Strategy" (RAND Corporation, 2018), 3-7, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE260.html; and Eric Heginbotham and Jacob L. Heim, "Deterring without Dominance: Discouraging Chinese Adventurism under Austerity," The Washington Quarterly, 38 no. 1 (2015), 186-188, https://politicalscience.nd.edu/assets/262944/deterring_without_dominance_heginbotham_heim.pdf. ↩
Several measures of national power place the U.S. well ahead of its closest peer competitor, China, especially the GDP composite metric in Michael Beckley, "The Power of Nations: Measuring What Matters," International Security, 43 no. 2 (Fall 2018), 7-44. Nevertheless, U.S. forces fail in simulations of strategically significant scenarios. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., '"US Gets Its Ass Handed to it' in Wargames: Here's a $24 Billion Fix," Breaking Defense, March 7, 2019, https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/us-gets-its-ass-handed-to-it-in-wargames-heres-a-24-billion-fix/. ↩
Elbridge Colby, "America Must Prepare for Limited War," The National Interest, no. 140 (Nov/Dec 2015) 11-22, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-must-prepare-limited-war-14104; Elbridge Colby, "Against the Great Powers: Reflections on Balancing Nuclear and Conventional Power," Texas National Security Review, 2 no. 1, November 2018, 145-152, http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/864. ↩
Dwayne Spradlin, "Are You Solving the Right Problem?" Harvard Business Review, September 2012, https://hbr.org/2012/09/are-you-solving-the-right-problem. ↩
Chris Dougherty
Former Adjunct Senior Fellow, Defense Program
Chris Dougherty is a former Adjunct Senior Fellow for the Defense Program at CNAS. His primary areas of research included defense strategy, operational concepts, and force pla...
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