The SNP has criticised the UK Government for its "paltry" £5 billion in additional funding for defence and its focus on nuclear weapons.
The party's defence spokesperson Dave Doogan said a lack of funding means that salaries in the armed forces will be "uncompetitive", and equipment and facilities will be "substandard".
This came after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an extra £5 billion in military spending over the next two years.
The promised funding will see an extra £1.98 billion this year and £2.97 billion next year for defence.
Large sums of the promised new money will be swallowed up by refilling ammunition stocks handed to Ukraine and work on the Aukus project to develop nuclear-powered submarines for Australia.
The Aukus project is a a military agreement between the UK, the US and Australia.
The short-term funding is only around half of what defence secretary Ben Wallace had reportedly demanded. He asked for more money because the military budgets are being squeezed by the impact of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and high inflation.
Doogan said that the cash the UK was putting towards defence was much less than other countries.
He also said that there was too much of a focus on nuclear rather than defence of Europe and North America.
Doogan said: "Where Germany responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with a funding boost of €100billion for their defence, the UK responded a year later with a paltry £5billion.
"Of that, £2billion will go on stock replenishment for arms sent to Ukraine, this is non-discretionary so does not represent a policy position. The other £3billion is for nuclear submarines.
"Many in uniform will wonder why their pay is uncompetitive, their equipment substandard and their accommodation damp and mouldy - yet there is always money for nuclear in the UK.
"The UK's priorities are all wrong. Robust conventional defence of the Euro-Atlantic region should be our principal defence objective not diverting billions towards the nuclear enterprise."
The SNP has a long-standing opposition to nuclear weapons in Scotland, calling them "immoral, ineffective and expensive."
The party has campaigned for the Trident nuclear submarines to be removed from the River Clyde for years.
Sunak said that Britain is committed to “swift and robust action” to counter any threat from China when he announced his plan for UK foreign and defence policy on Monday afternoon.
The “refreshed” integrated review (IR23) document said that Communist-ruled China represents an “epoch-defining and systemic challenge” to almost every aspect of government policy and the everyday lives of British people.
It said that the UK will seek to continue to engage “constructively” with the regime on tackling shared priorities.
But the review warned that this will become increasingly difficult if China continues its trend towards greater “authoritarianism and assertiveness”.
The document was unveiled as the Prime Minister was in California for a three-way summit with the United United States and Australia.
It also highlighted two developments of “particular concern” as China’s “deepening partnership” with Russia and Moscow’s “growing cooperation” with Iran.
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