After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union each boosted military spending to try to prevent the other from gaining a military edge.This pattern is called

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The pattern described is an arms race, where two or more countries increase their military spending in order to maintain or gain a military advantage over one another. This term is commonly used to describe the escalating competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.