The committee highlighted significant gaps in the capabilities of the ANSF in areas such as helicopters and close air support and medical care.
President Clinton has said the U.S. might offer logistical support for joint military action -- such as helicopters -- but no troops.
Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - Nato has struggled, at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of 25, 000 to 40, 000 troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets such as helicopters, transport aircraft, maintenance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and much more.
The army brigades, which were not identified, depend on the UN for military support such as attack helicopters, the official said.
This would rely on radio connections attached to vehicles such as snowmobiles, helicopters and trucks that travel in the area.
However, Anatoly Isaikin, the head of the state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, said the supplies did not include attack weapons such as planes or helicopters.
The country imports about 70% of its defense equipment, such as fighter jets, warships, helicopters, missiles and radars, from countries such as Russia, Israel, the U.S. and France.
After the September 11 airline hijacking attacks, restrictions were imposed on private flights and many commercial flights, such as traffic planes and helicopters, crossing big city airspace.
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Even so, Colombia is not planning to ask the United States to donate sophisticated attack helicopters, such as Apaches, whose use would be subject to close congressional oversight on human-rights grounds.
It can be reconfigured for each mission by adding or removing modules such as weapon systems, sensors, helicopters and drones.
The then Conservative and Liberal Democrat opposition parties helped to highlight the emerging fissures between the military and their political masters under the previous Labour government, such as the row over whether there was a shortage of helicopters in Helmand.
Potential strengths include aircraft, helicopters, engines, turbines, industrial gear such as pumps and compressors and, inevitably, military equipment.
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