King Alexander appointed Nedić to carry through a significant change in army organisation against the opposition of many of the senior generals, mainly to reduce the size of the oversized infantry divisions and create corps as an intermediate formation between divisions and armies.
King Alexander commissioned Nedić to undertake a major restructuring of the army's organizational framework, countering the objections of several senior generals, with the aim of downsizing the oversized infantry units and introducing corps as a middle tier between divisions and armies.