He then served as chief of staff in the Initial Operations Planning Group (IOPG) in Vienna for the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict from 1993 to 1994 when he was promoted to colonel.
[1] Fant served as commanding officer of the Norrland Anti-Aircraft Corps (Lv 7) from 1994 to 1997 and was promoted to senior colonel in 1996.
In 1999, Fant was appointed head of the Development Department of the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (Strategiledningens utvecklingsavdelning) and in 2000 he attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in the United Kingdom and was promoted to brigadier general.
[1] On 1 July 2002, Fan was promoted to major general and was appointed deputy head of the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (Strategiledningen).
[3] He was then head of the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters from 21 June 2004 to 31 December 2004.