Walking the floor at CANSEC this week, it’s impossible not to look at the Canadian defence ecosystem through the lens of pure Newtonian mechanics. After all, the best problems are solved starting from first principles. Newton’s second law of motion states that the net force applied to a body is equal to the object’s mass multiplied by its acceleration: F=ma In the case of the Canadian defence industry: · Force (F) is the government strategic mandate / policy. · Ma