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Old 24th Feb 2015, 17:42
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"Vulnerable to attack by ICBMs". Unless we are attacked by Russia, France or the US that is an unlikely scenario post-Cold War.

In the post-Cold War scenario the threat has changed and there is no longer the justification to maintain a vastly expensive SSBN force which can only come at the expense of conventional defence capability, for which there is a constant requirement.
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