Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World

By David Solnit and Aimee Allison

Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis. However, even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth accelerate, so do the creative and powerful efforts of students, community members, and veterans to challenge them. Today, the counter recruitment movement--from counseling to poetry slams to citywide lobbying efforts--has become one of the most practical ways to tangibly resist U.S. policy that cuts funding for education and social programs while promoting war and occupation. Without enough soldiers, the U.S. cannot sustain its empire. Army of None exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power strategies to win.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583227555
• ISBN13: 9781583227558
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The author should be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for writing this book

Army of None should be handed out in high schools across the nation. If I had the money, I would do so. The US military has billions of dollars to spend on recruitment every year, and they need every penny of it. How else could they make murder so appetizing to the youth of our country? They hand out key fobs, coffee cups, and ball caps, and all they ask in return is the lives of our children. What a great deal, huh? Army of None is one of the best tools we have to fight back against the war machine and those who support it. That, and teaching our kids to avoid the military at all costs.

Amazing

This book is amazing. Its like a handbook for counter-recruiters, i.e. people who go out and speak the truth about the military and its lies. The first third of it is a mind-blowing description of how far the military goes to recruit youth. The second section provides a wealth of suggestions and annecdotes for counter-recruiting. And the last section is all about building people power, which is a sustainable movement that confronts not just the Iraq or Afghan wars, but an imperialist system that regularly uses wars to bully the rest of the world.