Perhaps a tad, but the 600 ship Navy and massive modernization of conventional air and ground forces made the Forever Wars of invasion and occuption ( viz. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc) possible. Wasn't worth the trade-off. The Soviet Union was going down for the count anyway. Besides, all that defense build up during the early 1980s literally extinguished any stomach for domestic spending cuts and reforms among the GOP rank and file on Capitol Hill. I know because I still have the scars!