Washington, Feb. 12 -- The Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) signed between the Governments of Sri Lanka and the United States in March 2007 which allowed both countries to transfer and exchange logistics supplies, support, and re-fueling services clearly benefitted the United States in its military operation in the Asia-Pacific region - specifically US Pacific Command (USPACOM) which is now US Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) - but left Sri Lanka with absolutely no benefit from the U.S. at a time Sri Lanka was in an intense military battle with the separatist Tamil Tigers.

It provided - and even now provides after it was renewed in July 2017 - logistic support to the USINDOPACOM responsible for military operations in an...