Defending The State

Defending Scotland against aggression and contributing to international security .

The Defence Forces primary mission is to prevent conflicts and war whilst asserting Scotland's sovereignty and ensuring it's continued existence and integrity

”Through preparedness the Defence Forces of Scotland can deter aggression and promote peace ”

Threat assessment:

It is a near-certainty that an independent Scotland would face no immediate military threat from any other state and therefore the threat to Scottish territorial integrity, in the near term, is extremely low. An independent Scotland would likely be surrounded by benign democratic neighbours with whom it would in all likelihood have good relations. The surrounding political and physical geography thus gives Scotland strategic depth from more unstable regions of the world where territorial integrity is less certain and international or intercultural tensions persist.

However, just because Scotland would not face military aggression or attempts by a foreign state to annex its territory in the near term does not mean that such a threat won't emerge in the future. Geopolitics is about capabilities, not intentions. The political character of nations can change rapidly and one needs only look at European history over the past hundred years to see how dramatically such changes affect the threat environment. It would be the utmost hubris to assume that one can know for certain what the future holds and therefore The Defence Forces will maintain the capacity and those capabilities which cannot quickly be reconstituted, adopting an asymmetric warfare doctrine in order to show potential aggressors that they would find Scotland a difficult and costly target of aggression.

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