WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It wasn’t so long ago that President Donald Trump spoke of building a legacy as a “peacemaker.”

His administration would measure “success not only by the battles we win,” Trump said in his inaugural address , “but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”

But nine months into his second go-round in the White House, Trump is beating a curious path to executing his “peace through strength” foreign policy agenda, a phrase he borrowed from a fellow Republican president, Ronald Reagan, who saw building a strong military and economy as the bedrock to Soviet deterrence.

Trump's take on the Reagan doctrine includes sharper threats, bombings and no shortage of bravado .

It’s too soon to tell how history will

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