What is Monte Melkonian?
{{Infobox military person | name = Monte Melkonian | image = Monte Melkonian postal card.jpg | image_size = | caption = 2008 postal card honoring Melkonian | birth_date = {{Birth date|1957|11|25}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1993|06|12|1957|11|25}} | birth_place = [[Visalia, California|Visalia]], [[California]], [[United States]] | death_place = [[Mərzili|Merzili]], [[Agdam District]], [[Azerbaijan]] | placeofburial = [[Yerablur]] | alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]] | nickname = | birth_name = | allegiance = {{flagicon image|Flag of ASALA.png}} [[Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia|ASALA]]<br>{{flag|Nagorno-Karabakh}} | branch = {{flagicon image|}} [[Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army]] | serviceyears = 1979–1993 | rank = [[Lieutenant Colonel]] | unit = | commands = Martuni Detachment | battles = [[Iranian Revolution]]<br />[[Lebanese Civil War]]<br>[[1982 Lebanon War]]<br>[[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]] | battles_label = | awards = [[National Hero of Armenia]] | spouse = Seda Melkonian | relations = [[Markar Melkonian]] <small>(brother)</small> | laterwork = ''The Right to Struggle'' (selected writings printed posthumously in 1993) | signature = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''Monte Melkonian''' (born November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was an [[Americans|American]]-[[Armenians|Armenian]] [[Military|military commander]]. in the [[Nagorno-Karabakh war]]. He is largely known for major military victories against [[Azerbaijan]] from the late autumn of 1992. Melkonian had no prior service record in any country's [[army]] before being placed in command of an estimated 4,000 men in the war. He had largely built his military education beginning from the late 1970s and 1980s where he fought against the various splintering factions in the [[Lebanese Civil War]], against [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli]] troops in the [[1982 Lebanon War|Israeli invasi