The U.S. will most likely not contribute troops, but they will contribute towards logistics, so communications, that type of thing.

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The unit's expertise would include communications, logistics, medicine and engineering.

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Without the things that only states can provide - sanctuary, intelligence, logistics, training, communications, money - even the bin Laden network and others like it could manage only the occasional car bomb.

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If we are going to tackle health care for millions of people across Africa we must first tackle the most basic elements of any health system: logistics, maintenance, local skills and communications.

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