Connectivity is Soft Power

I was once asked what I would use a single airship in a massive natural disaster response scenario. The question was actually more specific, it was how I would use a single airship responding from Bahrain to Karachi, Pakistan in a humanitarian support operation following a massive natural disaster with an airship that could move at 100 mph to prepare the way for naval forces responding from the sea.

My answer:

I would have a loading plan prepared for moving COWs and Fuel Cell backups for rapid on-sight deployment. My airship would be specifically designed to broadcast the most popular local radio station with the largest possible signal strength. I'd use local DJs with local government officials as the on-air personalities. I would look into options for running the most powerful cellular antenna tower and electronic radio transceiver equipment possible from the airship itself. Basically, my military airship would be outfitted as a giant commercial communication system capable of being adapted to the regions it would be tasked to respond to.

See this article, this article, and this article for reasons why, and consider whether my answer represents the best way an arriving superpower can show up to support a humanitarian disaster. My theory is thus: everyone will bring the basic needs, but not everyone can bring essential needs to the target citizen that empowers the system supporting basic needs.

If you have a different answer you think is better, I'm interested.