How to strengthen Scottish defence after independence: cooperate with London

Simon J Smith

How to strengthen Scottish defence after independence: cooperate with London

Simon J Smith

Politics, Languages & International Studies

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The Scottish government’s commitment to a post-independence defence and security budget of £2.5 billion, “exceeds most of the earlier predictions” and would place it in the top six of NATO countries for spending per head on the armed forces (based on 2011 defence budgets). Maintaining defence spending at around 1.7% to 2.0% of GDP would also very much buck the trend in Europe.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 26 Feb 2014

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