Arthur Cebrowski

Arthur Karl Cebrowski (1942 to 2005) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy and one of the principal American thinkers on how digital networks change the conduct of war. Born in Passaic, New Jersey, to a Polish American family, he graduated from Villanova University in 1964, entered the navy through the Reserve Officers Training Corps and became a naval aviator who commanded Fighter Squadron 41, Carrier Air Wing 8, the assault ship USS Guam and the carrier USS Midway. As a rear admiral he led Carrier Group Six and, in 1993, Naval Battle Force Somalia during the United Nations operation there. He had combat experience in Vietnam and during Desert Storm, and he finished his uniformed career as president of the Naval War College. From October 2001 to January 2005 he directed the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, advocating the transformation of the American military.