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Analysis | ‘You want your land back?’ The Geo-Politics of Military Bases, Empire and Independence
The Ministry of Defence's latest threat to keep Faslane as sovereign territory in the event of Scottish Independence should be seen in the context of Britain's imperial history of maintaining military bases against the wishes of local people across the world.
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