Jamie McIntyre is the former Senior Pentagon Correspondent for CNN, and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He blogs on military and media issues at" Jamie McIntyre's Line of Departure," lineofdeparture.com.

Why is a general so lionized hanging up his uniform for a back-bench position? Jamie McIntyre on why Petraeus is headed for the CIA—and not the Pentagon—and how he can help the agency that helped kill Osama bin Laden.

As tension in the Korean Peninsula escalates, former Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre reminds us that we’ve been here before. The Clinton administration was poised on the brink of war in 1994.

As the battle continued this week, former Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre talked to military officials who say the debate is nothing more than an unnecessary wartime distraction.