Some armies have different rankings, so it would depend on which army you are referring to.
General is usually considered the highest rank, though this can have additions to it. Brigadier Genera, Major General, Lieutenant General, etc. There are also ranks called Marshalls, Field Marshall, Marshall of the Army etc.
Then, of course, there are such things as monarchs, emperors and presidents.
The abbreviation for general would be Gen.
The highest ranking officer in the Army is the Army Chief of Staff. The current Army Chief of Staff is General Martin Dempsey.
The Army Chief of Staff is the highest ranking officer in the peacetime Army. The highest raning NCO is the Sergeant Major of the Army.
Not necessarily.
In the United States Army the highest ranking officer is a General. Bellow him is a Lietenant General. But the highest rankin officer is a four star general deemed chief of staff
The following link will provide an illustration of the high-ranking officer in the Terracotta Army.
Brigadier Benjamin O. Davis.Sr
Norton A. Schwartz is the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and is a Four-Star General.
Please resubmit your question with more specifics. Do you need to know which Army is the strongest army in the world or the highest rank in an army? A 5 star General or Field Marshall is the highest ranking officer in the armies of the world. I would suppose the US Army is the largest being the superpower in the world right now.
Albert Sidney Johnston. He was an adopted Texan, born in Kentucky.
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.
Presuming you mean "chief", the highest ranking officer in the British army is called a Brigadier.
The General of The Army, but it is reserved for Wartimes. General is the normal highest.