The Totalitarian Mind is a short story by Steven Mohan Jr. that was published online on BattleCorps on 19 December 2009 as the second installment of the Operation Rat series. It was also later published in print in the 2016 BattleCorps anthology Front Lines.
Set in the Fourth Succession War, it narrates the tale of two brothers on the Capellan Confederation world of Tybalt and how they cope with the invasion of overwhelming AFFS forces.
Steven Mohan, Jr. has professionally published more a half million words of military science fiction including the BattleTech novel A Bonfire of Worlds. He has sold original fiction to markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short stories have won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.