Field marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army. As such a senior rank it is rarely held and many countries do not routinely promote any officers to the rank.
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)