Colonel Regis Chamagne spent his career as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, first in air defence, then in reconnaissance and finally on the Mirage 2000D fighter/bomber aircraft.

He has gained high military education degrees and led a strategic analysis cell directly linked to the French Chief of the Joint Staff during the air campaign over the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999.

He was the mastermind of the creation of national targeting structures in 2000. He has published several articles on air strategy in several magazines.