Though Kahn's book is an assault on the overwhelming-force mentality of Dulles and the generals at the Strategic Air Command (who, Kahn once told them, dreamed of a "wargasm"), it is also an attack on the anti-nuclear movement and the belief that nuclear war means the end of life as we know it.
Bratton, who is best known for developing and implementing the COMSTAT system during his first run as NYPD commissioner under Rudi Giuliani in the mid-1990s, also helped usher in the cops-as-an-occupying-force mentality in poor neighborhoods in NYC.
Some insight into the force's mentality is offered by the codename adopted for its investigation of the club: Operation Lenor.
For ESPN's Kate Fagan, a former college basketball player, that mentality forces female athletes to be judged not just on their own abilities but also in comparison to men, who are inherently bigger, stronger and faster.
But it can also specify timing: in May 2007, Gen. David Petraeus, chief of U.S. forces in Iraq (a man with a surge mentality, being forced to issue Sherman-like denials of interest in a vice-presidential run being bruited about by a right-wing former pundit), told The Washington Post's David Ignatius: "How long does reconciliation take?
That mentality will force them along a plodding path, but if they reach the end of that path, it is a potential game changer for the market.
I prayed they didn't succumb to mob mentality and force Henry and I into turtlenecks, mistaking us for smother fetishists.
Upon the announcement of her death sentence he proclaimed a chilling response: "This is the happiest day of my life, it brought me tears of joy!" His malicious mentality incited violence forcing Bibi's family with a disabled child to flee their home because of subsequent death threats.
France, like the British and United States, is a former imperial power and still acts with that mentality by using force excessively abroad.
The Great Recession has begun to change that mentality by forcing cuts in mowing budgets.
Having grown up with what she calls a "poverty mentality," if forced to choose, she would pick the pilot in a heartbeat.
