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>but even they were not so stupid as to go "just spend more duh"
That's kind of the strategy you're logically left with in that context if you value mass production above all else. That, or go for the armies age old back up plan of tactical nuke spam.

Though I think that runs into the dirty secret that the Reformers mainly appealed to (and were championed by) people who were primarily interested in defense spending cuts, not folks interested in conventional defense strategy against the Soviets. That crowd was sold as soon as they heard "cheap" in cheap weapons, and was largely unconcrmed with how much cheap stuff you'd actually need to deal with the soviets.