Originally Posted by ShotOne
stand out points were that we could afford lots of good defence equipment without SSBN's...
The problem with that 'stand out point', is that money not spent on maintaining a SSBN fleet is highly unlikely to then be considered as 'money now available' for lots of other nice new defence equipment! Our defence budget is already a pittance of GDP (2.3/4%?). Why should existing capabilities be considered for the chop under the pretext of funding other new kit? I realize this may be a rather simplistic point of view (but then, i am rather simplistic...).
-RP