Originally Posted by
scr1
Does the UK have the capability on it's own??
Probably not, but the UK is a global security exporter across the board, and certainly has all sorts of stabilizing capability and capacity. Further, the British maintain a military understanding than the majority of calories and other necessities of daily life in the UK come via sea, and their prime assistance in securing that is 3000 miles to the west.
To this discussion, the Scots will not have this capability to be militarily independently secure, have no desire to pursue this capability and can proceed down these independence roads secure in the knowledge that the British Army won't be getting ready to march up the A-1(M) and force Holyrood to submit at bayonet point. A fact of life NOT shared by say, the neighbors of Belarus or Russia or China.