A graduate in 1990 of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Law and Politics Institute), Philippe Wodka-Gallien is a member of the Institut Francais d'Analyse Strategique (IFAS), a think tank based in Paris. Expert of defense issues, he graduated from the IHEDN (Institute for High National Defense Studies), 47th national session. In 2015, he edited Nuclear forces - a strategic perspective, a collective work published by Revue de Defense Nationale. A regular contributor to Revue Defense Nationale, he is the author of numerous articles in the professional media: Airways, Conflits, Marines & Forces Navales, and in Defense, the IHEDN magazine where he writes Les Chroniques de la dissuasion.