"The effectiveness, efficiency and economy of defence spend by an independent Scotland has the potential to deliver substantial improvements in value for public money, including the investment of a defence posture better aligned to our own particular needs and the perceived threats to Scotland’s security. Scotland will have no need for expensive weapons of mass destruction; no need for aircraft carriers ‘projecting global power’; no need to maintain military bases on foreign soil. It will need other things – just as Ireland, Norway, Denmark and New Zealand need them and succeed in having them."
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