Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College retained British military instructors to this day. It trains and educates officers from all military services and all nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council. The College is named after Lieutenant General Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Chief of General Staff of the Kuwait Armed Forces from 1963 to 1980. Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College The Mubarak al-Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College (, abbreviated in English as MAJCSC) is a military educational institution in Kuwait City, Kuwait, which prepares field grade officers to lead at the operational level of warfare. The British Embassy in Kuwait considers the College
Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 traffic and maritime peace, and also sought to formally establish its dominance in the Gulf. By 6 May 1913 Britain and the Ottoman Empire initialed the compromise and the Anglo-Ottoman Convention was signed on 29 July 1913, exactly two years after the first memorandum. The Anglo-Ottoman Convention was only part of a wider bargaining process and the complexities of the competing European commercial interests in the region prevented its ratification. Russia, France, and Germany (and later Italy) also had been pressing the Ottoman government for railway concessions. Ratification was further complicated by the fact that most of the Powers themselves