LTC Michael Stokes
LTC Michael Stokes currently serves an instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he teaches joint doctrine, strategy and planning in the Department of Joint, Interagency and Multinational Operations. He also serves as the Cyberwarfare Subject Matter Expert for CGSC. From 2017-2019 he served as a mission manager and then later Deputy Chief of the Cyber Tactical Operations Center, at Army Cyber Command’s Joint Force Headquarters – Cyber, where he directed, coordinated and synchronized the execution of cyberspace operations in support of USCYBERCOM, ARCYBER and supported Combatant Commands. He also served as a lead planner at Joint Task Force Ares where he directed and oversaw cyberspace operations to disrupt and degraded ISIL media operations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. From 2013 – 2017 he served as a Team Leader of a Cyber Protection Team in the U.S. Army Cyber Protection Brigade, where he planned and led defensive cyberspace operations to protect Combatant Command networks from nation state adversaries.
LTC Stokes received his commission though the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Appalachian State University, in 2003. He spent the first several years of his career as a Signal Corps officer before specializing in cybersecurity and transferring into the newly established Cyberwarfare career field.
His military education includes: the Signal Officer’s Basic Course, the Signal Officer Captain’s Career Course, the Information Operations Capabilities, Assessment and Planners Couse, the Army Cyber Operations Planners Course, the Information Systems Engineer Course and he is a graduate of the U.S.
Army Command and General Staff College. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in History from Appalachian State University and a Master’s of Science in Information Assurance and Security from Western Governor’s University. He maintains several IT security professional certifications.