Military recruiters have unprecedented access to our public school campuses and a $3.7 billion dollar budget to convince young people to sign up. So what can parents and concerned community members do to balance the equation, expose the myths that recruiters tell, and give young people more options for their future? Aimee Allison offers a number of effective strategies that communities have used to counter recruitment in her new book Army of None: Strategies to Counter Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World (Seven Stories Press, 2007).

After serving four years as a combat medic in the Army Reserves, Aimee Allison earned an honorable discharge as a Conscientious Objector during the Persian Gulf War. Today, she writes and speaks about the experience and role of GI resistance in ending war, supports soldiers applying for CO discharges, and advocates for military women's issues with the Service Women's Action Network that she co-founded this year.

View a YouTube Video of Her Speaking!

Topics covered

• Counter-recruitment
• Veteran perspective
• Woman's military perspective