Aaron Cohen Behavioral-Based CQB School

For more info on hosting After years of dealing with terrorism, Israel leaned into and partnered with their top behavioral scientists to create the first behavioral-based method of Close Quarters Battle (CQB) for their IDF special operations units and the Israeli National Police SWAT team. They studied thousands of operations involving shootouts, and developed a tactical doctrine that harnessed exactly how these officers and commandos physiologically responded under extreme high levels of stress. They leaned into the science. They found that massive levels of chemicals were being dumped into the bloodstream which couldn’t be controlled regardless of how much they trained in sighted firing and conventional room entry. This chemical dump included epinephrine, norepinephrine, cortisol and adrenaline. This led to immediately squaring up on threat, non-sighted compulsive rapid firing, threat focused binocular dominance, and firing from outside the threshold as opposed to trying to make entry for hostage rescue. So they built a tactical doctrine around these findings which included instinctive point shooting (non sighted), rapid cluster firing (which you’ll do naturally), and limited penetration (LimPen) room clearing (you won’t press in if shots are being fired at you through the threshold). This newly formed counterterrorism tactical response methodology became known as Behavioral Based CQB which I’ve been teaching to US law enforcement now for over two decades.