To safeguard ourselves, let us stop fighting the wars of others

HAVING watched the entire first session of the Defence Select Committee's inquiry into the implications of independence your headline, "Independent Scotland vulnerable to 9/11 attack" (The Herald, July 4), is rather misleading.

First and most obviously, having more modern fighters than all the other nations of the world put together did not stop the US being the target of a successful attack. Secondly, according to the United States Air Force, despite operational changes, the US is still vulnerable to future 9/11-type attacks.

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