"Robert Peffers" wrote in message
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"phil hunt" wrote in message
rg...
There's recently been speculation in the media that UK defence cuts
ewill result in some or all of Scotland's infantry regiments being
disbanded[1]. If Scotland became an independent state, what
sort of armed forces should it have -- if you were appointed
Scottish minister of defence, what would you do?


[1] see for example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3310763.stm,


http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.co.u...e=s1_1_1&newsi
d=4282


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Frae Auld bob Peffers:
Well Denmark does very well as they are. Anyway Scotland would be entitled
to her share of the UK armed forces, (or if not we could hang on to ALL
the
nukes as hostages). If they don't give us our proper share the Indians,
Pakistanis, Israelis or even the Palestinians may pay well for them. Even
the Koreas have nuclear ambitions.

Explain this bit, please.

'But senior civil servants say the current level of poor Army recruiting and
retention cannot go on. Already, Scottish regiments rely on hundreds of
Fijian soldiers to bolster the ranks, at a time when commitments to Iraq and
Afghanistan are mounting.'