But the basic assumptions, the culture, of the military-intelligence complex seem suddenly anachronistic.
"The white backlash," the British journalist Godfrey Hodgson wrote in the summer of 1964, "fits into a broader pattern of social and political change that may rewrite the most basic assumptions on which the dominance of the Democrats had been based since 1933".
So, on a clear day, began the pulverizing horror that turned human beings to dust and shook Americans' most basic assumptions about the land that morphed into a "homeland".
The model, described in a paper published online 21 April by Nature Neuroscience, is based on a statistical theory that takes into account two basic assumptions about the real world: First, most objects in the world don't move at all, and the rest tend to move slowly.
Yet the circumcision of babies cuts against one of the basic assumptions of the liberal mindset.
Even some of the most basic assumptions of the Times's campaign are not universally agreed.
Even before the current crisis, there were calls to rethink basic assumptions about the economy.
If it backfires it will challenge some basic assumptions about the way politics works.
Basic assumptions of the theory of relativity can also be tested.
The basic assumptions of the model are the following: 1.
