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Military rank
This article is about the military rank. For the royal office of "lieutenant general" in Italian-speaking monarchies, see
Luogotenente
.
Lieutenant general
(
Lt Gen
,
LTG
and similar) is a
military
rank used in many countries. The rank originates from the
Old European System
. The rank traces its origins to the
Middle Ages
, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the
second-in-command
on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a
captain general
.
In modern armies, lieutenant general normally ranks immediately below
general
(or
colonel general
) and above
major general
; it is equivalent to the navy rank of
vice admiral
, and in air forces with a separate rank structure, it is equivalent to
air marshal
. In the United States, a lieutenant general has a three star insignia and commands an
army corps
, typically made up of three
army divisions
, and consisting of around 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers.
The seeming incongruity that a lieutenant general outranks a major general (whereas a
major
outranks a
lieutenant
) is due to the derivation of major general from
sergeant major general
, which was a rank subordinate to lieutenant general (as a lieutenant outranks a
sergeant major
). Several countries (e.g. Balkan states) use the rank of
lieutenant colonel general
instead of lieutenant general, in an attempt to solve this apparent anomaly.
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In contrast, in
Russia
and a number of other countries of the former
Soviet Union
, lieutenant general is a rank immediately below
colonel general
, and above
major general
? in these systems there is no use of the
brigadier general
of many Western countries.
In addition, some countries use the lieutenant general as the rank of divisional commander, and some have designated them with
French revolutionary system
. For example, some countries of South America use
divisional general
as the equivalent of lieutenant general.
Lieutenant general ranks by country
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Army ranks
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Air force ranks
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Naval infantry
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See also
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