‡ The expression Maginot mentality refers to any military strategy that is exclusively defensive and therefore flawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maginot line] Reference

If you read the history of World War II, you will find references to something called the Maginot Line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq and a hard place] Reference

It's the 700-mile Maginot Line of American nativism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soy hispano, y yo voto] Reference

But we cannot rely solely on a Maginot line of firewalls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introducing U.S. Cyber Command] Reference

Ballistic missile defense is like the Maginot line in WW1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Congressman Attacks Liberal ‘Backbiters’ And ‘Naysayers’ For Criticizing Failed Missile Defense] Reference

It is only the modern version of the Maginot Line mentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impact of Strategy on Recent Developments] Reference

The French soldiers at the Maginot gros ouvrages forts prevailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Percy Blakeney: Hold the Line in Afghanistan] Reference

Many commentators suggest Spain is now the euro zone's Maginot Line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spain Financial Crisis: Maginot Lines And Illusions] Reference

You are as effective as a linear geometry based upon the Maginot Line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » November » 01] Reference

The French Generals said the same thing about the Maginot Line in 1938.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Cold War Hawks and the Soviet Economy] Reference

The crews of the unconquered Maginot forts held out until the armistice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Margolis: Four Myths About World War II] Reference

"The problem is, they never communicate with us," Maginot said of the CDF.    From Wordnik.com.  [Accused Catholic Priests Left In Legal Limbo] Reference

The mark of a bad coach is Maginot Line thinking: always fighting the last war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Finals] Reference

Google Docs has security that makes the Maginot Line look impregnable (check) 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Google Win When Microsoft Kills Office 2000?] Reference

A good case in point would be a fort on the Maginot line or the port of Cherbourg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worth Repeating: Bob Rae And Liberals Don’t Understand Mission « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

The missile shield is the 21st century Maginot Line and a complete waste of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glad to be Wrong about the Election « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

Even worse is the Maginot-mindedness thinking that produces these white elephants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glad to be Wrong about the Election « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

Then they drew their Volvos, Mercedeses and other high-end cars into a Maginot line.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege Of L.A.] Reference

This was way bigger than the Great Wall of China, way, way bigger than the Maginot line.    From Wordnik.com.  [D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II] Reference

“This is the equivalent of the builders of the Maginot line giving lessons on defense.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: BEWARE Do NOT Trust Paulson's Plan to "Protect" and "Regulate"] Reference

In World War II, the Germans conquered France by going around the Maginot line to the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maginot line] Reference

He saw the officers behind their Maginot line of cars, some looking back at the van uneasily.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Maiden's Grave]

Planning tends to be focused on "the last war" the best/worst example being the Maginot Line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank A. Weil: Through a Monstrous Looking Glass] Reference

The mentality of the "Maginot Line" means apathy, indifference and a false sense of security.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle For Europe's Mind] Reference

The Maginot line was designed to stop any future invasion by Germany, but it was never completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maginot line] Reference

They stared at each other across the Maginot Line, between two lines of trenches, and did nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

It is a myth however that the Maginot line ended at the Belgian border and was easy to circumvent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Sarkozy lauds the U.S.: ‘Welcome to the club of states who don’t turn their back on the sick and the poor.’] Reference

Who'd have thought these massed legions were little more than a Maginot Line against the banker blitzkrieg?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope vs. Financial Experience] Reference

I felt like the French, watching the Germans walk across the Maginot line like there was nothing in their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [spectre12 Diary Entry] Reference

Sarkozy's veto has become a new Maginot Line, the futile and antiquated fortifications France built to defend itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Turkey Must Get In] Reference

The only way to defeat these threats is for nation states to cooperate rather than hide behind Maginot lines or oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Green: Yes It Was... A Mandate for "Progressive Patriotism"] Reference

Selvaraj and Maginot kept writing appeals -- to the CDF, the Vatican's supreme court -- and finally, to Benedict himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Accused Catholic Priests Left In Legal Limbo] Reference

"To stop them, you literally have to construct a Maginot Line," said Craig Kotze, spokesman for the Law and Order Ministry.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In practical terms, this means putting an end to our primary reliance on firewalls -- the Maginot Lines of the information age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

The only way to defeat these threats is for nation states to engage in collective security rather than hide behind Maginot lines or oceans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Green: Progressive Patriotism: How the 44th President Can Change Washington and America] Reference