Stuart Crawford has 20 years' experience providing organisations and individuals from the private, public, and third sectors with bespoke advice on their political and media communications. Drawing on his extensive network of subject matter experts he regularly puts together selected teams to answer his clients' requirements.
Stuart is also a popular commentator on defence and security matters and a regular contributor on television, radio, and in the print media in the UK and beyond.
Count an independent Scotland defend itself scot-free?
In this short paper Stuart Crawford and Richard Marsh build on their original thoughts on how an independent Scotland might organise its armed forces. In particular, they assess whether leasing back the nuclear submarine case at Faslane to the Royal Navy and the Lossiemouth air base to NATO might raise sufficient revenue to cover most, if not all, of an independent Scotland's defence budget in the immediate post-independence years.
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