My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom Freedom There's a secret

in the deepest, most southern,

hottest sweltering armpit of America that is used to train special

operators, military special operations units, and a handful of covert field officers.

And we go there because they teach us a very specific type of self-defense, of defensive maneuvering. And they teach us about our natural threat

response instinct. And that threat response instinct is something super interesting. To me,

it's been really invaluable in how I have approached my business, how I handled the field

when I was with CIA, and something

that I like to teach other people as well.

And I wanted to share it with you today because I imagine that one of the big questions you

have, like so many of my clients, is what is the right response?

What is the best instinct when you're faced with a threat? A threat in business,

a threat at home, a threat in the field, whatever it might be, physical threat, monetary

threat, digital threat, etc. So I want to start by telling you a story. So when I first went

to this base down in the forgotten armpit of the world, there was a senior master sergeant there who was teaching me about stuff from Vietnam. Now, if you are a history buff or a military history buff, then you know that the Viet Cong were a very difficult group to combat with existing American

tactics at the time.

And what would happen is they were experts at ambush and they were experts at concealment

at hiding themselves in the jungle.

And often what would happen is a U.S. troop on patrol would walk into an ambush in tight quarters.

And that's often why the air support during the Vietnam War would come in and try to just destroy, burn, poison, huge swaths of jungle so that they could take out all the foliage and make it difficult

for the indigenous Vietnamese guerrillas to be able to attack American troops. Well, the reason that

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