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Mikhail Katukov
Mikhail Katukov (Михаил Ефимович Катуков; 1900–1976) was a Soviet tank commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who led the 1st Guards Tank Army from 1943 to 1945.
Mikhail Kirponos
Mikhail Kirponos was a Soviet colonel general, a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1940, who commanded the Southwestern Front and was killed in 1941 breaking out of the encirclement of Kiev.
Mikhail Naumov
Mikhail Ivanovich Naumov (Михаил Иванович Наумов) was a Soviet major general and Hero of the Soviet Union who led partisan cavalry raids behind German lines in occupied Ukraine.
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war
Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian war includes weapons, ammunition, equipment, training, and financing supplied by foreign governments and coordinated international initiatives. Following Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, the scale.
Military coups in Nigeria
Military coups in Nigeria: armed seizures of power, 1966–1993, six successful takeovers and two failed attempts, yielding 29 years of military rule before the 1999 democratic transition.
Military dictatorship in Brazil
Military dictatorship in Brazil (ditadura militar), 1964-1985: authoritarian regime after the coup against João Goulart, ruled by five indirectly elected generals, marked by AI-5, censorship, the 1979 Amnesty Law, and a late National Truth Commission.
Military history of France
Military history of France: armed conflict involving French states from the Hundred Years' War and Napoleonic Wars through the 1940 defeat and the Indochina and Algeria decolonization wars to today's nuclear-armed, full-spectrum military.
Military history of Japan
The military history of Japan extends from the Yayoi period through the rise of the samurai and the Tokugawa peace, moving to imperial expansion and the postwar constitutional order.
Military history of the Philippines during World War II
Military history of the Philippines during World War II: Japanese invasion and conquest 1941–1942 (Bataan, Corregidor), guerrilla resistance under USAFFE, and the 1944–1945 liberation from Leyte and the Battle of Leyte Gulf through the campaigns on Luzon, Manila, and Mindanao.
Military of ancient Egypt
Military of ancient Egypt: the pharaonic armed forces, evolving from Old Kingdom peasant conscripts to the New Kingdom professional army with chariotry, divisions named for gods, and the Kadesh campaign against the Hittites.
Military production during World War II
Military production during World War II: belligerents' conversion of industry to weapons output, the US War Production Board, 299,000 planes and 100,000 tanks, Soviet and German munitions effort, and $11 billion Lend-Lease to the USSR.
Millennium Challenge 2002
Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02), a $250 million U.S. Joint Forces Command war game, July 24-August 15, 2002, testing Rapid Decisive Operations; Red Force commander Paul Van Riper sank the US fleet, the game was restarted with him constrained, and he charged it was scripted.
Milperra massacre
Milperra massacre (Father's Day Massacre), 2 September 1984 gun battle between Bandidos and Comancheros bikie gangs at the Viking Tavern, Milperra, Sydney: seven dead including teenager Leanne Walters, 43 charged, NSW gun law changes.
Mineriads
The Mineriads (Mineriadele) were a series of six violent interventions by Jiu Valley coal miners against anti-communist protesters, opposition parties, and the press in Bucharest, from January 1990 to February 1999.
Ming conquest of Đại Việt
The Ming–Hồ War (1406–1407) was China's Ming invasion of Vietnam under the Yongle emperor, ending in the annexation of Đại Việt as the province of Jiaozhi.
Mining of Shimonoseki Strait
The mining of Shimonoseki Strait (Kanmon Strait) was the 1945 B-29 minelaying campaign that closed the key waterway between Honshu and Kyushu, the first phase of Operation Starvation.
Minsk agreements (Минские соглашения)
The Minsk agreements (Минские соглашения), also called Minsk I and Minsk II, were 2014 and 2015 ceasefire and settlement accords for the Donbas war signed by Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE and endorsed by UNSC Resolution 2202. They remained largely unimplemented and ended with Russia's February 2022 recognition of the separatist republics and full-scale invasion.
Mir Muhammad Rebellion
Mir Muhammad Rebellion: Kurdish uprising (1830–1838) led by Mir Muhammad of Rawanduz, the Blind emir of the Soran Emirate, against Ottoman centralization; suppressed after a Rawanduz fatwa, ending in his 1836 surrender and 1838 death.
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798–1859), second elected president of the Republic of Texas (1838–1841), Georgia-born poet and soldier; championed Texas public education, opposed annexation, and pursued a forceful policy expelling Native peoples.
Mishima incident
The Mishima incident (三島事件), 25 November 1970: writer Yukio Mishima and four Tatenokai militia members took an SDF commandant hostage at Camp Ichigaya, Tokyo, demanded a coup to restore imperial rule, and Mishima committed seppuku.
Mission Accomplished speech
Bush's May 1, 2003 address aboard USS Abraham Lincoln declaring major combat in Iraq ended, named for a 'Mission Accomplished' banner he never spoke; became shorthand for premature victory as the Iraq insurgency followed.
Mius offensive
The Mius offensive (Міуська операція) was a Soviet attack by the Southern Front against the German Mius River line in the Donbas, from 17 July to 2 August 1943.
Mixtec wars of expansion under Eight Deer Jaguar Claw
The Mixtec wars of expansion under Eight Deer Jaguar Claw were 11th-century conquests in which the ruler Eight Deer of Tilantongo subdued dozens of towns in Oaxaca.
Miyoshi occupation of Kyoto
The Miyoshi occupation of Kyoto was the control of Japan's capital and the Muromachi shogunate by the Miyoshi clan from their 1549 victory over Hosokawa Harumoto until 1568.
MKUltra
MKUltra (MK-ULTRA, MKULTRA) was a covert CIA human-experimentation program (1953–1973) testing LSD, hypnosis, electroshock, and psychic driving for behavior control across 149 subprojects; ended in failure, exposed in 1977.
Mlanjeni's War
The Eighth Xhosa War, also known as Mlanjeni's War or the Eighth Frontier War, was the 1850–1853 conflict between the Xhosa and British colonial forces on the eastern Cape frontier.
Modoc War
The Modoc War was an 1872 to 1873 armed conflict between the United States Army and Modoc people resisting removal from lava beds near Tule Lake, on the California-Oregon border.
Mohammad Sidique Khan
Mohammad Sidique Khan (also Mohammed Siddique Khan), born 1974, was a Leeds teaching assistant and the ringleader of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, bombing Edgware Road (7 dead). He had appeared peripherally in Operation Crevice but was never assessed as a threat.
Mohammed Yusuf (محمد يوسف) (Boko Haram)
Mohammed Yusuf (محمد يوسف), 1970–2009, Nigerian Salafi cleric and founder of Boko Haram (Jama'atu Ahl as-Sunnah li-Da'awati wal-Jihad) in Maiduguri in 2002; executed in police custody July 30, 2009, after the group's July 2009 uprising, succeeded by Abubakar Shekau.
Moldavian Revolution of 1848
The Moldavian Revolution of 1848 was the part of the European revolutionary wave in the Principality of Moldavia, a peaceful petition movement crushed by Prince Mihail Sturdza in 1848.