Retired Navy Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, 63, the first head of the Pentagon’s Office of Transformation died Nov. 12 in Bethesda, Md., from cancer. A Naval aviator, Cebrowski was president of the Naval War College from 1998 to 2001, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld selected him to lead the department’s transformation efforts.
The U.S. military conducted strikes on Iranian targets around the Strait of Hormuz on May 7, as the conflict with Iran flared up again—though officials say the ceasefire remains in effect.