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Jean-Christophe Noël has been a researcher at IRSEM since October 2026, where he deals with military operations. A former Air Force officer, he had a career as a fighter pilot and held various staff positions, notably dealing with doctrine and foresight matters. He served as deputy chief of staff to the Air Force Chief of Staff from 2006 to 2009, Military Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. in 2009/2010, and as a political-military affairs expert at the Policy Planning Directorate (CAPS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2017. He was also editor-in-chief of the magazine Vortex—dedicated to aerospace warfare—between 2021 and 2026. He has been an associate researcher at IFRI since 2018.