Lieutenant General Stickland was appointed Chief Joint Operations at the Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood in November 2021, responsible for the command and integration of UK global operations.
He previously served as Assistant Chief of Defence Staff for Operations & Commitments in the MOD in May 2019 and was intimately involved in all UK Resilience and Overseas operations, notably the national COVID response and Operation PITTING, the UK’s extraction from Afghanistan.