What did president reagan’s new approach to the cold war reveal about his foreign-policy strategy? he thought that aggressive military action would lead to peace. he favored peace talks, trade agreements, and negotiation. he wanted to work for peace from a position of military strength. he believed that cutting defense spending would improve us foreign relations.

Foreign policy has to be reassert on all four dimensions of national interest.

Peace-Détente failed to bring peace and Reagan believed that the Soviets had never changed and that they used détente as a cover up for the traditional aggression strategy. Democrats like Carter and even Republicans like Nixon Ford and Kissinger were deluding themselves and endangering the country to think that the Soviets had changed. Peace was only going to be achieved through strength

Power-Reagan wanted to reassert US power. Gave military aid, weapons and covert action for the Afghan maujahideen who were fighting the Soviets and the Nicaraguan contras who were fighting the Sandinistas. Secretary of Defense Weinberg set higher standard as to when US military should be used to intervene in foreign conflicts. Reagan increased defense spending and increased nuclear weapon arsenal.
Principle-Communists were focus of evil and headed for ash bin of history. Said US was shining city on a hill and last hope of mankind. These claims justified ABC democrats and said that communist leaders were far more repressive than other leaders. View was contradictory because of the US support for military regime in El Salvador that promoted mass murder of citizens. Congress despite objections from Reagan administration attached human rights to US aid in El Salvador.

Prosperity-The early 80s were marked as greatest recession since Great Depression, but they began to prosper under Reagan. Inflation tamed, economic growth rate boomed, and increase in defense rates played positive role in prosperity. Economic recovery and revived to prosperity key to Reagan reelection. 

Reagan Doctrine was an attempt to oppose Soviet Union influence. US provided overt and covert aid to anti communist guerillas and resistance movements in attempt to rollback Soviet governments in Asia Africa and Latin America. Also wanted to potentially open door to liberal democracy and capitalism in Soviet-supported socialist governments

Weinberger criteria were response to failure of American military in Vietnam and Lebanon. Six criteria needed to be met before US sent troops to respond to international issue.

1) Must be vital to our interest or that of our allies. 
2) If it is in interest we commit wholeheartedly enough troops to clearly win the struggle. 
3) If we commit must have political and military goals for troops to accomplish. 
4) Once committed must continually reassess troops that are committed based on the goals left to accomplish and change troop levels based on current demands. 
5) Before troops are committed must be reasonable approval from Congress and American people that they support this use of force. 
6)Use of troops should be last resort in all situations.

He wanted to work for peace from a position of military strength.

Explanation:

President Reagan spent a ton of money on defense programs. Reagan considered the Soviet Union the focal point of malice in the cutting edge world. He thought the USSR was an extremist government and abusive.

During the time of the Cold War, the U.S. needed to adjust to various strategies to manage Russia. That is the reason President Ronald Reagan's new way to deal with the Cold War uncovered that he needed to work for peace from a place of military quality, as his foreign-policy strategy.