Mubarak Ali Al Sabah & Surveillance conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE 2012 and the maritime infrastructure protection symposium in the Kingdom of Bahrain 2013. Mubarak Ali Al Sabah Captain Sheikh Mubarak Ali Yousuf Al Sabah (12 Aug 1979) the eldest son of Sheikh Ali Yousuf Al Sabah and Sheikha Awrad Jaber Al Sabah, the daughter of the 13th monarch Ruler and 3rd Emir of Kuwait His Highness Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Joined the Kuwait Navy as an officer cadet in 2000, and was commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant in 2002. The same year he attended the British Royal Navy's young officer course at Britannia
Rise of the Ottoman Empire and vassals. When the Ottoman polity first emerged at the end of the thirteenth century under the leadership of Osman I, it had a tribal organization without a complex administrative apparatus. As Ottoman territory expanded its rulers were faced with the challenge of administering an ever-larger population. Early on the Ottomans adopted the Seljuks of Rum as models, and by 1324 were able to produce Persian-language bureaucratic documents in the Seljuk style. The early Ottoman state's expansion was fueled by the military activity of frontier warriors (), of whom the Ottoman ruler was initially merely "primus inter pares". Much of