Our country is divided, and policy has become more partisan than ever before. There is one concept, however, that people with vastly contrasting foreign policy belief systems can largely come to terms with: It’s far better for our allies (most of which are wealthy nations) to increase their own defense capabilities and embrace more of the security burden rather than relying on the United States to protect them.

Defense hawks, establishment types, realists, non-interventionists, and deficit hawks disagree on pretty much everything, but burden sharing isn’t one of them.