Announcing "The Warrior Mindset"

I think Mr. Codrea is getting excited about nothing. These types of courses have been around in the firearms community ever since Coopers' Principles of Personal Protection. Generally the purpose of a mindset class is to teach people to "suck it up and drive on" when the situation gets dangerous.

Calling it a "warrior" mindset isn't new. Bruce Siddle's "Sharpening The Warriors Edge" did it a long time ago. Mostly I believe it is just a marketing gimmick. The content doesn't appear to have any physical skills:

fear management, decision making, emotional survival, physical fitness as they pertain to law enforcement officers. Class is designed for all officers from patrol to investigations to SWAT.

Closed classes are for a couple of reasons, and none of them are secrecy. Primarily it is that private citizens might lack the foundations that this class is based upon. The prerequisite for this class is the police academy, much like the prerequisite for AIT is Basic Training.

Another is that the majority of the topics covered are not germane to private citizens. Private citizens are not bound by a department policy on use of force, and have different objectives in a physical encounter.