 He served as adviser to the Defence Minister of Benin, and as the Defence Attaché at the French embassy in Beirut.He took part to both the UNPROFOR and the IFOR in 1995 and 96, and worked for the implentation of the Dayton Agreement in Sarajevo and Mostar.In 2000, as a colonel, he headed the Africa and Middle East Division at the "Direction du Renseignement Militaire" (Military Intelligence Directorate) in Paris.