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Michiel de Ruyter
Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607–1676), Dutch admiral from Vlissingen, commander-in-chief in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, victor of Kijkduin 1673, Lieutenant-Admiral-General, died off Sicily.
Miguel Grau Seminario
Miguel Grau Seminario (1834–1879) was a Peruvian admiral, known as the Caballero de los Mares, who commanded the monitor Huáscar in the War of the Pacific.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, known as Father Hidalgo, was a Mexican Catholic priest who issued the Grito de Dolores in 1810, beginning the Mexican War of Independence.
Mihail Moruzov
Mihail Moruzov (1887 or 1890 to 1940) was a Romanian intelligence officer who founded and led the Secret Intelligence Service of the Romanian Army from 1924 until September 1940.
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.
Mike Vining (soldier)
Mike R. Vining (born 1950) is a retired U.S. Army sergeant major, Vietnam EOD technician, and founding member of Delta Force, its first EOD specialist, veteran of Eagle Claw, Urgent Fury, and Desert Storm.
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 Tolstykh (Михаил Сергеевич Толстых)
Mikhail Tolstykh (Михаил Сергеевич Толстых), call sign Givi, DPR separatist commander of the Somalia battalion in the Donbas war; fought at Ilovaisk and Donetsk airport, EU-sanctioned 2015, killed in Makeyevka office explosion 8 February 2017.
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 Horthy
Miklós Horthy (1868–1957), Austro-Hungarian admiral, was Regent of Hungary 1920–1944, led an authoritarian regime, allied with Nazi Germany, halted 1944 deportations, then was removed by Hitler in October 1944.
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.
Miles Taylor (security expert)
Miles Taylor, American national security expert and former DHS chief of staff (2019), author of the anonymous 2018 New York Times 'Resistance' op-ed and book A Warning, revealed October 2020; targeted by Trump's April 2025 clearance memorandum.
Military brat
Military brat is an informal, non-pejorative insider term for children raised in military-connected families, marked by frequent PCS moves, school changes, and parental deployment. Origin theories trace it to the British army; research documents both mental health risks and resilience.
Military career of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler's military career: WWI volunteer in the Bavarian 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment (List Regiment), Gefreiter and regimental dispatch runner, Iron Cross recipient, then Reichswehr intelligence agent 1919–1920.
Military career of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's U.S. Army service, 1958-1960: drafted at Memphis, trained at Fort Hood with the 2d Medium Tank Battalion, 37th Armor, then served in the 3rd Armored Division at Friedberg, West Germany, rising to sergeant before discharge at Fort Dix.
Military career of Muhammad
Muhammad's military career covers his campaigns from the 622 hijra to Medina until his death in 632: Badr, Uhud, the Trench, Hudaybiyyah, the conquest of Mecca, Mu'tah, and Tabuk, read through the maghāzī sources and modern military-history scholarship.
Military history of African Americans
The military history of African Americans spans more than two centuries of Black service in the US armed forces, from the Revolutionary War to post-World War II desegregation.
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.
Milton Rubenfeld
Milton Rubenfeld, in Hebrew מילטון רובנפלד, was an American pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force in World War II and became one of the founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force.
Milunka Savić
Milunka Savić (Милунка Савић) was a Serbian war heroine of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, described as the most decorated woman soldier of the Great War.
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.
Minamoto no Noriyori
Minamoto no Noriyori (源範頼, c. 1150–1193) was a Japanese warrior commander of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods who led Minamoto armies in the Genpei War.
Minamoto no Tsunemoto
Minamoto no Tsunemoto (源経基) was a mid-Heian period Japanese warrior and courtier, ancestor of the Seiwa Genji line that later produced the shoguns Yoritomo and Yoshitsune.
Minamoto no Yorinobu
Minamoto no Yorinobu (源頼信, 968–1048) was a Japanese warrior aristocrat who suppressed the Taira no Tadatsune rebellion without a battle and founded the Kawachi Genji line of the Minamoto clan.
Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝)
Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝, 1147–1199), warrior leader who raised an army in Izu in 1180, founded Japan's first warrior government at Kamakura, defeated the Taira in 1185, and became the first shogun in 1192.
Minamoto no Yoshiie
Minamoto no Yoshiie (源義家, 1039–1106) was a Japanese military commander of the late Heian period who fought in the Former Nine Years' War and won the Later Three Years' War.
Minamoto no Yoshinaka
Minamoto no Yoshinaka, also known as Kiso Yoshinaka (1154–1184), was a late-Heian warrior of the Seiwa Genji who defeated the Taira at Kurikara and entered Kyoto in 1183.