Marc Ambinder reports that Vice Admiral William McRaven will be promoted after a distinguished tenure as boss of Joint Special Operations Command. 

That means a fourth star for the water-walking Navy SEAL, who has overseen successful special forces campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In military circles, McRaven is best known for establishing a terrorist “targeting center” under the JSOC umbrella, which fuses civilian experts and intelligence officials with the special forces community. The war room’s creation cut the bureaucratic red tape between trackers and hunters, exponentially upping operations and enemy kills. In short, McRaven morphed terrorist tracking from a passive to aggressive endeavor.