Brown had said that Israel was a "military burden" to the United States.
But no satisfactory formulas were found for sharing the financial and military burdens of enforcing international law.
Could they be persuaded after such a long and costly war to agree to new financial and military burdens to preserve the world order?
Thus, according to my research, a low military burden - more than trade policy, industrial policy or national character - best explains Japan's advantage.
By remaining students, they were a massive burden on the state, while also failing to participate in the military burden.
The local governors told him that they already bore enough of the military burden and that he should look somewhere else.
So the search is on for ways to trim the military and shift burdens to America's allies.
But this disequilibrium is by no means due only to the differences in military burdens.
One is the central question of whether the allies are carrying their fair share of the military and economic burden.
He recognized that "the full weight of American diplomacy" required a willingness to share the military burden - including ground troops.