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
Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire 1911, Muslim intellectuals and politicians formed "The Young Arab Society", a small Arab nationalist club, in Paris. Its stated aim was "raising the level of the Arab nation to the level of modern nations." In the first few years of its existence, al-Fatat called for greater autonomy within a unified Ottoman state rather than Arab independence from the empire. Al-Fatat hosted the Arab Congress of 1913 in Paris, the purpose of which was to discuss desired reforms with other dissenting individuals from the Arab world. They also requested that Arab conscripts to the Ottoman army not be required to serve