He added: "The MoD is consciously choosing to allow gaps in medium-term capabilities – such as carriers and now fast jets – to develop so that it can focus its limited resources on Afghanistan … and on long-term investment programmes.
Researchers do have legitimate grounds for this of course; they have chosen to invest in the medium term quality of strengthening research capabilities with respect to the traffic hotspot in order to better be able to make a difference in complicated traffic debate in the longer run.
We will want to eliminate genetic diseases in the nearer term, enhance human capabilities in the medium term and, perhaps, prepare ourselves to live on a hotter Earth, in space, or on other planets in the longer term.
In the medium term, CSOs add value by building world-class strategy development and execution capabilities within the company.
They are far behind Western companies in those realizations and in the development of those capabilities; that will be a big struggle for them in the medium term".
Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who has criticized France's lack of independent drone capability, has said that Paris could buy as many as 10 more such drones in the medium term.
Medium term: very little.
Or maybe the medium term.
Note the phrase "medium term".
In the medium term comes another challenge.
