Tactical psychological operations are more limited, used by commanders to secure immediate and near-term goals.

While that may at some level be true, in order to make progress in education you have to have near-term goals that are achievable.

The group's near-term goal is to build public understanding and support for its 2030 objectives while implementing immediate improvements to existing regional transportation systems.

For now, our near-term goal is only to unfreeze the political process.

But they contend that without a near-term goal, it may be impossible to get Congress to provide enough money to answer the outstanding questions.

Chinese aviation authorities say that is just a near-term goal.

But it has been more successful in setting some near-term and long-term goals, and in encouraging companies to give the project a high priority.

The program will be focused on near-term goals like developing nuclear power for a Moon base.

A fully novel artificial replicator is a reasonable near-term goal.

But the near-term goal of Government, he made clear, would be the "absolute and urgent need to face up to inflation."