Sentence examples for war assumptions from inspiring English sources

Twenty years in the making, the vehicle had so many breakdowns and cost overruns — and was based on such outdated war assumptions — that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates terminated it this month for a savings of $14.4 billion.

Mr. Clinton would seem to have all the gifts for writing a gripping memoir: gifts of language, erudition and charm, combined with a policy wonk's perception of a complex world at a hinge moment in time, teetering on the pivot between Cold War assumptions and a new era of global interdependence.

Still resting on Cold War assumptions, the law made major inroads elevating joint over service warfare.

"That was kind of a post-Vietnam War assumption.

First, this crisis has buried the post-Cold War assumption that war in Europe is inconceivable.

It showed that the corporation, like most other British broadcasters, tended towards "pro-war assumptions".

ONLY now, nearly a decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, are defence strategists on both sides of the Atlantic seriously challenging the old cold-war assumptions about the nature of possible future conflicts.

W., who had tuned out during the 60's, preferring frat parties to war moratoriums and civil rights marches, and George Jones to "psychedelic" Beatles albums, was on board with his regents' retro concerns, like Star Wars and Saddam, and outdated cold-war assumptions, like the idea that terrorists could thrive only if sponsored by a state.

Photographic theory seems to share the post-war assumptions that death has been eclipsed by modernity, sequestered away and rendered taboo.

A history of wars and inflation, and the post-war assumption that governments will provide safely for retirement, all still push them the other way.

Some officials said the case fell through the cracks of changing post-cold-war counterintelligence assumptions and priorities.