 Considerable work was being undertaken building fortifications on the Italian frontier.During 1938, Milutin Nedić was appointed as Minister of the Army and Navy, and was replaced as Chief of the General Staff by "Armijski đeneral" Dušan Simović.That year, two geo-strategic changes made the task of the army significantly more difficult, the "Anschluss" between Germany and Austria, and the Munich Agreement which drastically weakened Czechoslovakia.