Lieutenant colonel general

See also: Lieutenant general

Lieutenant colonel general (Serbo-Croatian: генерал-потпуковник, general-potpukovnik, lit. 'general sub-colonel') is a general officer rank in a number of armed forces in the countries of the Balkans. The rank can be traced back the ranks used by the Yugoslav People's Army, and continues to be used in a number of former Yugoslav countries following the breakup of Yugoslavia.^[1]

Countries which use Lieutenant colonel general

The rank of lieutenant colonel general represents a rationalisation of the situation in some armies of a lieutenant general outranking a major general, when a major outranks a lieutenant.^[2]

Lieutenant colonel general's insignia

Army

• 
  General Potpukovnik
  (Montenegrin Ground Army)^[3]
• 
  Генерал потполковник
  General potpolkovnik
  (North Macedonian Ground Forces)^[4]
• 
  Генерал-потпуковник
  General-potpukovnik
  (Serbian Army)^[5]
• 
  Generalpodpolkovnik
  (Slovenian Ground Force)^[6]

Air force

• 
  General Potpukovnik
  (Montenegrin Air Force)^[3]
• 
  Генерал потполковник
  General potpolkovnik
  (North Macedonia Air Brigade)^[4]
• 
  Генерал-Потпуковник
  General-Potpukovnik
  (Serbian Air Force)^[5]
• 
  Generalpodpolkovnik
  (Slovenian Air Force)^[6]

See also

• Lieutenant (Eastern Europe)
• Lieutenant colonel (Eastern Europe)
• Colonel (Eastern Europe)
• Colonel general