General (four stars)
Lieutenant General Samuel B. M. Young.
Second Lieutenant is the higher rank
Name of Pakistani army chief is Ashfaq Kiyani
General Tasker H. Bliss who was advanced from Lieutenant Colonel to Brigadier General and from Major General to General.
Chief of Staff is the title of the highest ranking officer of the US Army. He holds the rank of General, which is an 0-10 / 4 star rank. The title of Commander-In-Chief is given to the President of the US and is the commanding authority for all military forces, but the holder of this rank, while often having served in the military, is not a military officer by virtue of title.
The rank of the Chief of Staff of the Army is a 4-star general. General Raymond T. Odierno is the CSA (as of December 2014). General Odierno has two bosses; he reports to both the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Army.
The President is the Commander in Chief if the Irish Defence Forces (IDF) The Chief of Staff is the serving Lt.General. (Highest commissioned officer rank in the IDF.) chief of staff
The highest rank in the army is general. Unless in a real war than it it general of the army which is 5 stars. Jointcheif and all that is just a title not a rank
The Chief of Staff
Admiral is a navy rank, not Army. Looking on Wikipedia, it lists a General Deepak Kapoor as the Chief of Staff of the Indian Army, and an Admiral Nirmil Kumar Verma as the Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy.
Lieutenant General Samuel B. M. Young.
They hold the rank of General and are usually titled as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS).
As political office there is no such thing as the chief of staff of the army, therefore no-one consults him or her. Certainly an army general will have his or her chief of staff and the general will consult with that person. Other members of the staff will also consult with them.
The General Staff of the Army assists the Army Chief of Staff in carrying out the duties of his job
The highest ranking officer in the Army is the Army Chief of Staff. The current Army Chief of Staff is General Martin Dempsey.
The General is the Leader of an Army. After WWII, The 4 star general is the leader
The Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) is a statutory office (10 U.S.C. § 3033) held by a four-star general in the United States Army. The current Chief of Staff of the Army is General Mark A. Milley.