As the armed forces of the Colombian army continue to battle leftist rebels, the United States has said it will share more intelligence with the country and speed up delivery of military equipment.
The US has already spent more than $1 billion in just over a year backing President Andres Pastrana's fight against the left wing the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who they believe to be drug traffickers.
While most of the $1 billion has been in military aid, including helicopters, Washington has not committed its own forces, except for training, and it has restricted its financial support to Colombian efforts against what it calls "narco-traffickers and narco-terrorists."
"Two of the more immediate things we're looking at is to share more information, including intelligence information, with the government of Colombia," State Department spokesman Mr Richard Boucher told a daily briefing.
"The second one is that the government of Colombia has purchased various spare parts for their equipment, that we'll look to see if we can't expedite the delivery of those things. ... We've decided to share more information. We've decided to expedite the delivery and we're looking at exactly how that process is going to work," he added.
A government offensive against FARC began on Thursday after President Pastrana decided to drive them out of the area he ceded in 1998.
Mr Boucher said the Bush administration would look at other ways to help Colombia but had not decided to seek changes in US law, which restricts the use of US aid to the campaign against the production and trafficking of drugs.