But this kind of over-the-horizon assault, power-projection capability is a new twist.
In rural China, party control at the grassroots is similarly under assault as power shifts to village chiefs (many of them not party members) directly elected by villagers.
It was to be an 18-month assault on power, with the ultimate aim being to replace the PSOE as leaders of the left and unseat Prime Minister Rajoy at the 2015 general election.
The first news reports this week about hundreds of pages of newly released documents on the C.I.A. program focused on aberrations in the field: threats of execution by handgun or assault by power drill; a prisoner lifted off the ground by his arms, which were tied behind his back; another detainee repeatedly knocked out with pressure applied to the carotid artery.
"The word 'coup' usually describes an assault on power, usually in violent form," said Pedro Estevam Serrano, a professor of constitutional law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo.
3) Most people currently tasked with keeping students safe on campus are neither sufficiently informed, nor prepared when it comes to understanding gender, media, sexuality, sexual assault and power.
"Sexual assaults remove power and control, and when it happens to men there is a loss of a sense of 'maleness'," says Duncan Craig of Survivors Manchester and himself a rape survivor.
A band who have, for an unbelievable 25 years, contrived to make "industrial pop", Nine Inch Nails' live show is more a thrash guitar assault than power-electronics mindmash, and they're fresh off a US tour with Soundgarden and QOTSA.
To counter this assault on their power base, Cornwallis sought to use his power as lord lieutenant to grant government jobs (patronage) and peerages to essentially buy off enough votes in the Irish parliament so that it would vote itself out of existence.
The Populists were animated by a radical agrarianism that celebrated the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian assault on monopolistic power.
The Hittite state had vanished by the seventh century B.C., wiped out by the Assyrians, who launched their assault from their power base in present-day Iraq.
