Are you arguing that Reagan reined in the military industrial complex? While you may be able to plausibly argue that he reduced government waste in some areas (

Are you arguing that Reagan reined in the military industrial complex? While you may be able to plausibly argue that he reduced government waste in some areas (emphasis on MAY), there is zero room for an argument that he somehow cut the fat on military spending. Under his administration, military spending (deficit spending, mind you, none of this was paid for) increased: "Reagan significantly increased public expenditures, primarily the Department of Defense, which rose (in constant 2000 dollars) from $267.1 billion in 1980 (4.9% of GDP and 22.7% of public expenditure) to $393.1 billion in 1988 (5.8% of GDP and 27.3% of public expenditure); most of those years military spending was about 6% of GDP, exceeding this number in 4 different years. All these numbers had not been seen since the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics