https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-04-05/uk-opens-permanent-military-base-in-bahrain
April 5, 2018, at 4:02 p.m.
Geopolitics in a nutshell...
Well, I was looking for a link I can use on the old hardware and software, and Google didn’t return a link to a cached version, but the other hit was this topic. I feel special. :^) The UK previously had a naval presence there, but it’s been years. The US 5th Fleet is already there.