RedBarron
Not gonna lie, I think the idea of Scotland taking any of the UK's current military capability with it, is a pipe dream! In any case, where on earth would it find the money to operate a military?
Also, there are streams of economists lining up to say that Scotland would be financially worse off...to the point that there would be a very high consensus, if the SNP weren't arguing the opposite. The latest figures I can find, from an official government website, say £6 billion a year in oil and gas revenue... not enough to plug the enormous budget deficit that exists in Scotland's budget, if it went solo (Even £12 billion wouldn't quite suffice); so paying down Scotland's projected national debt of 145% GDP seems difficult too, and even more difficult if it took on its share of RBS?HBOS liabilities.
Just as a thought, if you were the government that was humiliated by the dismantling of the union (The big event that they would be forever remembered for), would you want to help Scotland go easily, or make it as painful as possible?