This is Jocco podcast number 45 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

I often think that if I were an Indian, I would greatly prefer to cast my lot

among those of my people who adhere to the free open planes rather than submit

to the confined limits of a reservation, there to be the recipient of the

blessed gifts of civilization with its vices thrown in without stint or measure.

And that is a quote from a book called My Life on the Plains published in 1876 by a

guy named General Custer who wrote that book, published a few months before he died

at the Battle of Little Big Horn. But we're not going to look at that book today.

Even though that battle, the Battle of Little Big Horn is something we will definitely

delve into. There's a ton of lessons learned there, you know, a whole, all the American soldiers

were killed in this one unit of General Custer's. There was no survivors from it.

He lost like 200 guys, all of them, himself included. And there was some survivors

from some of the other companies that were along with him.

There's a guy named Major Reno and another guy named Captain Ben Teen and they had people

that survived in there. We actually a lot of their company survived. But none of

Colonel Custer's or General Custer, Colonel Custer's troop survived.

And as I was thinking about doing that battle because there's so many good lessons to learn

about, a lot of lessons to learn about arrogance and overconfidence and splitting

forces, there's just a really good bunch of good tactical lessons to learn from it.

And as I dove into it, I ended up coming across another first hand account from

India. Now, I use the term Indian because instead of the term Native American, which is

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