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

NPR: U.N. Resolution Points to Peace in Lebanon

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

CNN: Military ponders disaster response unit

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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