Lieutenant colonel general Lieutenant colonel general Lieutenant colonel general or sub-colonel general (Serbo-Croat: "генерал-потпуковник" or "general-potpukovnik") is a general officer rank in a number of Balkan armed forces. Its literal meaning is "sub-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. In the Serbian Army, the rank of "sub-colonel" ("potpukovnik" / "потпуковник") is used rather than "lieutenant colonel" ("poručnik pukovnik" / "поручник пуковникin"). In the Serbian Army and Air Force ("генерал-потпуковник" or "general-potpukovnik"), it is the rank immediately below colonel-general. The
Major general used as a rank in the Portuguese military, but as an appointment title conferred to the general officer that acted as the military head of a service branch. The roles of Major-General of the Navy ("Major-General da Armada") and Major-General of the Army ("Major-General do Exército") became extinct in 1950, with their roles being unified in the then created Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. In the Russian Army, the rank "Major general" is known as "Генера́л-майо́р". In Somalia, major general is used within the Somali Armed Forces (SAF) for the highest-ranking military official. In Sweden, the