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Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信)
Masanobu Tsuji (辻政信, born 1901), Imperial Japanese Army staff officer behind the Malaya–Singapore campaign, linked to the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan; escaped prosecution, became a Diet member, and vanished in Laos in 1961.
Matthew Ridgway
Matthew Bunker Ridgway (1895-1993), U.S. Army general, 82nd Airborne and XVIII Airborne Corps commander in World War II, Eighth Army commander who reversed the Korean War, SACEUR 1952-1953, and Army Chief of Staff 1953-1955 who opposed intervention in Vietnam.
Max Hoffmann
Max Hoffmann (Carl Adolf Maximilian Hoffmann, 1869–1927), Prussian general; planned Tannenberg (1914), chief of staff of the German Eastern Front from 1916, and German military lead negotiator at Brest-Litovsk; later advocated the anti-Soviet Hoffmannplan.
Maxime Weygand
Maxime Weygand (1867–1965) was a French general, chief of staff to Foch in World War I and supreme commander of Allied armies in May 1940.
Maximilian Ulysses Browne
Maximilian Ulysses Browne was an Austrian field marshal of Irish descent who commanded Habsburg forces against Frederick the Great and died of wounds from the 1757 Battle of Prague.
Maxwell D. Taylor
Maxwell D. Taylor (1901–1987), American four-star general, 101st Airborne commander on D-Day, Army Chief of Staff 1955–59, author of flexible response doctrine, Kennedy's military representative and JCS Chairman 1962–64, later US ambassador to South Vietnam 1964–65.
Mengistu Neway
Mengistu Neway (1919–1961) was an Ethiopian brigadier-general and commander of the Imperial Body Guard who, with his brother Germame, led the failed December 1960 coup against Emperor Haile Selassie.
Michael A. Aquino
Michael A. Aquino (1946-2019), U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in psychological operations and founder of the Temple of Set after leaving LaVey's Church of Satan; author of From PSYOP to MindWar and investigated without charges in the 1987 Presidio daycare case.
Michael D. Steele
Michael Dane Steele is a retired US Army colonel, 101st Airborne Rakkasan brigade commander in Iraq 2005-2006 and Ranger company commander at Mogadishu 1993, reprimanded in 2006 over Iraqi civilian deaths; not the 82nd Airborne major general.
Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn (born 1958) is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, former DIA director, and Trump's 24-day national security adviser in 2017 who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, was pardoned, and later won DOJ settlements.
Michael Kurilla
Michael "Erik" Kurilla, U.S. Army general from Elk River, Minnesota, 15th commander of U.S. Central Command (April 2022 to August 2025), West Point 1988, former 75th Ranger Regiment commander, oversaw 2025 Iran strikes.
Michael Wittmann
Michael Wittmann (1914–1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander famous for his Tiger attack on a British column at Villers-Bocage in Normandy in June 1944.
Michael Wright (Canadian Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Michael Charles Wright, CMM, MMV, MSM and Bar, CD, Canadian Army officer and Commander of the Canadian Army since 12 July 2024; former commander of CFINTCOM and Chief of Defence Intelligence; announced the 2026 Manoeuvre Division transformation plan.
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski
Michał Karaszewicz-Tokarzewski (1893–1964) was a Polish general who founded Służba Zwycięstwu Polski in 1939, the first armed underground organization of occupied Poland, and later served the government-in-exile in London.
Michał Rola-Żymierski
Michał Rola-Żymierski, born Michał Łyżwiński, was a Polish military officer and communist activist who served as Marshal of Poland from 1945 and as defense minister from 1944 to 1949.
Michel Ney
Michel Ney (1769-1815), duc d'Elchingen, prince de la Moskowa, Marshal of the Empire under Napoleon, famed as 'the bravest of the brave' for the 1812 Russian rearguard; executed for treason in 1815, the only marshal shot after the Hundred Days.
Mihail Savov
Mihail Savov (Михаил Савов) was a Bulgarian lieutenant general who served twice as Minister of War and whose order of 15 June 1913 opened the Second Balkan War.
Mike Jackson (British Army officer)
General Sir Mike Jackson (Michael David Jackson, 1944-2024), 'Jacko', British Army officer; KFOR commander who refused Wesley Clark's order at Pristina airport in 1999, and Chief of the General Staff 2003-2006 during the Iraq invasion.
Mikhail Kutuzov (Михаил Илларионович Голенищев-Кутузов)
Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745–1813), Russian field marshal and Prince of Smolensk, commanded Russian forces at Borodino in 1812 and directed the strategy that destroyed Napoleon's invasion; died at Bunzlau in 1813.
Mikhail Osipov
Mikhail Osipov (Михаил Осипов; born 1859) was a Russian Imperial general and military topographer who in 1915 first published explicit solutions of Lanchester's attrition equations.
Mikhail Tukhachevsky (Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский)
Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (Михаил Николаевич Тухачевский), Soviet marshal (1935) and deep-operations theorist; Red Army Civil War front commander, executed 11 June 1937 in Stalin's fabricated 'military-fascist conspiracy' case, rehabilitated 1957.
Miklós Bercsényi
Miklós Bercsényi (Bercsényi Miklós, 1665–1725) was a Hungarian aristocrat, soldier, and statesman who served as chief general of the kuruc army and governor under Prince Ferenc II Rákóczi.
Miklós Pálffy
Miklós Pálffy (1552–1600) was a Hungarian nobleman and general in Habsburg service, remembered as the "hero of Győr" for recapturing the fortress from the Ottomans in 1598.
Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac
Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac (Миливоје Петровић Блазнавац) was a Serbian general and politician who served as regent of Serbia from 1868 to 1872 and as prime minister.
Min Aung Hlaing (မင်းအောင်လှိုင်)
Min Aung Hlaing (မင်းအောင်လှိုင်), born 1956 in Dawei, Myanmar's commander-in-chief since 2011, led the February 2021 coup, ruled via the State Administration Council, became acting president in 2024 and president in 2026, sanctioned by the US and UK and facing an ICC warrant application.
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満)
Mitsuru Ushijima (牛島満, 1887–1945), Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general, commanded the 120,000-strong 32nd Army in the defense of Okinawa (April–June 1945) behind the Shuri Line and committed hara-kiri with chief of staff Isamu Cho on Hill 89 on 22 June 1945.
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Maxamed Faarax Xasan Caydiid), Somali general and Habr Gedir faction leader; USC chairman and SNA head, rival of Ali Mahdi, target of the 1993 UN/U.S. manhunt and Battle of Mogadishu, self-declared president 1995, died August 1996.
Mohammad Marani
Mohammad Marani (محمد مارانی) is an IRGC Ground Forces brigadier general, not the academic Mohammad Marandi. He commanded the IRGC Quds Headquarters in Sistan-Baluchestan and Kerman from 2015 to 2020, then Medina Headquarters in southern Iran.
Mohit Malhotra (general)
Lieutenant General Mohit Malhotra, AVSM, SM is an Indian Army armoured corps officer, commissioned into the 47 Armoured Regiment in June 1989, serving since 1 July 2026 as GOC-in-C of the Jaipur-based South Western Command.
Moshe Dayan (משה דיין)
Moshe Dayan (משה דיין), 1915–1981, Israeli military commander and politician: fourth IDF Chief of Staff (1953–1958), defense minister during the 1967 Six-Day War, foreign minister 1977–1979, architect of the Egypt peace treaty.