3 days ago
- General
- Wall Street Journal
In the Hills of Australia, Pacific Allies Are Training to Fight China
TOWNSVILLE, Australia—In the rugged hills outside this coastal city, Japanese and Australian artillery crews fired in tandem on a distant target. They were assisted by U.S. Marines, who were embedded with the Australian gun teams.
The live-fire drill was the culmination of Southern Jackaroo, an expanding annual exercise in the Australian bush in which the three nations' forces practice working together as allies.
