Will Daniels

"In the event of independence Scotland is not going to suddenly raise it's own army overnight, nor is it likely to leave itself undefended. So the question of shared defence capabilities will have to be answered IF it ever happens. It's surely going to be a difficult and complicated matter that would depend on so many details of yet-to-be-negotiated arrangements between the two states that it would surely be pointless to try drawing up plans already for every possible political arrangement that could happen. And anyway, last I heard, the MoD favours a strategy of airborne nuclear weapons, Trident is more of a political weapon than a military one. So it is possible that they _really_ don't care." - Will Daniels

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Will Daniels