Australia, Japan, and the United States have signed a landmark agreement to boost logistical cooperation between their maritime forces, allowing warships to refuel, resupply, and get repairs more efficiently at ports and at sea.
The trilateral agreement was signed on Friday aboard the USS America, an amphibious assault ship visiting Brisbane, Australia. While the three Pacific-facing allies have long cooperated on naval logistics through bilateral agreements, this is the first formal arrangement to bring all of them together.
