Indeed, a characteristic psychic pattern of the military state is the "startle pattern," which is carried over to the internal as well as to external threat of danger. This startle pattern is overcome and stylized as alert, prompt, commanding adjustment to reality. This is expressed in the authoritative manner that dominates military style--in gesture, intonation, and idiom. (p. 459)
from Laswell, H. (1941). The garrison state. The American Journal of Sociology, 46, 455-468
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