By the way....it was a 600 Ship Navy we were building. Granted there was no way we could afford to sustain such a fleet or man it with sailors who got to live on dirt with any regularity or length of time.
Reagan Doctrine - "Rollback", the point wasn't to achieve the target, along with the other elements it was to bankrupt the USSR by making them to compete with an economy a tenth the size of California' s let alone that of the whole USA.
Which succeeded.
A useful reminder to Trump when facing up to Putin - and a warning when competing against China.
Reagan Doctrine - Conservapedia