Australia volunteered to take the lead in the UN peacekeeping operation in East Timor--International Force-East Timor (INTERFET)--in 1999. The United States established US Forces INTERFET to provide logistics, intelligence, communications, civil affairs, and operations and planning augmentees in support of the Australian forces. The Army provided most of the intelligence and communications assets and all of the civil affairs support. During Operation Stabilize, US participation was meager in comparison to that of other INTERFET forces, yet US assets were significant force multipliers.