One of the harshest criticisms the Court of Enquiry made of Cadorna was his organization at Udine which figured as some kind of feudal court cut off from the world outside. Inhabited by a circle of the faithful few whose privilege it was to live in daily contact with the overlord (Chief of Staff) and rigorously policing the coveted access to his person, it also housed a large population of ill-organized employees and heads of office, as well as an intermittent throng of postulants seeking audience (generals of combatant units, the occasional envoy from a foreign army, or delegates from the government in Rome). Decidedly, the Supreme Command was anything but a modern centralized command structure catering swiftly to the needs of a mass army.