Lieutenant Colonel Geoffroy Clain

Autonomous Weapons Systems Capacity Officer French Army HQ

Ranks:

Cadet : 11 July 2008

Lieutenant : 1 July 2009

Captain : 1 August 2012

Major : 1 November 2018

Lieutenant-Colonel: 1 February 2022

Assignments: 

2009–2010: Bourges – Army Maintenance School (specialization course)

2010–2012: Laon-Couvron – Maintenance Company detached to the 1st Marine Artillery Regiment – Platoon Leader

2012–2016: Mourmelon – 8th Materiel Regiment – Deputy Officer / Company Commander

2016–2019: Bourges – Army Maintenance School – Training Brigade Leader

2019–2021: Paris – Army War College (École de Guerre Terre) & War College (École de Guerre)

2021–2022: Paris – Ecole des Mines Paris (civilian engineering studies)

2022–2024: Bruz – 2nd Materiel Regiment – Regiment Chief of Staff

2024–2026: Versailles – Operational Land Equipment Support Structure (SIMMT) - Head of Maintenance Studies Section

2026: French Army Staff (EMAT) / PLANS – Staff Officer responsible for automated systems and Land Equipment Maintenance Operational

Deployments:

2011–2012: Afghanistan (Kabul) – Operation Épidote – Cavalry Instructor

2013–2014: Central African Republic / Cameroon – Operation Sangaris – Company Commander

2015: Mali – Operation Barkhane – Company Commander

2018: Burkina Faso – Instructor at the Logistics School (ISLO)

2019: Iraq (Baghdad) – Operation Inherent Resolve – J35 Staff Officer

2023: Niger – French Forces in the Sahel – Commander of the Logistics Detachment and Deputy Chief of Operations at the Niger Command Post

Degrees and Qualifications

PhD in History (2026), Paris-Sorbonne

Master's Degree in History (2008)

Master's Degree in Heritage Studies (2008)

Master's Degree, Saint-Cyr (2009)

Graduate of the French War College (École de Guerre) (2021)

Advanced Master's Degree in Logistics Systems Engineering, École des Mines (2022)