The authors acknowledged that an independent Scotland would "need to come to some arrangement with the rest of the UK" on intelligence-gathering, cyber-warfare and cyber-defence, that the future cost of purchasing and maintaining equipment of its forces might be higher due to smaller orders, and that recruitment and training "may prove problematic" in the early years.
Institut je istakao i da postoji potreba da nezavisna Škotska "postigne neki dogovor s ostatkom Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva" o prikupljanju obaveštajnih podataka i cyber-ratovanju, da bi budući izdaci za nabavku i održavanje vojne opreme mogli biti veći zbog malog opsega narudžbi, kao i da se regrutovanje i obuka "mogu pokzati problematičnim" u prvim godinama.