The Reagan administration committed the United States to a massive arms buildup.
During the Reagan era the US expanded its military development through the buildup of new and more powerful massive weapons in order to give the US supremacy on the Cold War against communism and East European countries.He supported rebellions against revolutionary movements in central America (El Salvador,Guatemala,Nicaragua) and in he Caribbean (Grenade). Also this policy was extended to space through a defensive antimisilistic shield.