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Choiceology with Katy Milkman cover image

It's Hard To Be Humble

Choiceology with Katy Milkman

CHAPTER

The Battle of Midway

Six months after Pearl Harbor, June 4, 1942, the sun is peeking over the endless deep blue horizon of the central Pacific. Just off the Midway Atal, the Japanese have put up a strike force of 108 airplanes on their carrier flight decks. You are not to expose your aircraft carriers to attack unless you think that you can inflict disproportionate damage on your opponents. If you can't do that, then don't attack. And this is the moment when the battle turns dramatically in favor of the Americans.

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