Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah military officer to establish conscription. Mubarak was the son of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jaber Abdullah II Al-Sabah (1899–1996); the first Minister of Education of Kuwait and Sheikha Munira bint Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (b. 1911 in Kuwait City), eldest daughter of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Mubarak joined the Directorate of Public Security Force as a Lieutenant during the period in which the directorate included the partnership of the Kuwait Army and split in 1953. The next year, he was appointed as the first deputy commander of the Kuwait Army. In 1960, Mubarak founded the Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade, the first designated
Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 intervene in matters of the Gulf, of which the British desired to retain a monopoly. The Ottomans were willing to drop all claims to Bahrain, in which they had never been able to maintain anything but a symbolic role, but not Qatar. As a question of sovereignty, the Ottomans argued that the empire had always exercised effective sovereignty over the peninsula and could not justify the abandonment of territory which it had never formally renounced. Yet under considerable pressure it renounced claims to both (Articles 11 & 13) and a blue line was established to define the territorial limits of