Every US military recruit is trained to fight and to kill and obligated to eight years of enlistment.
Ongoing conflicts today prove that deployment can happen at any time. You owe it to yourself to consider the many alternatives that do not restrict your life options. - Learn more
Enlisting in the military has been sold for generations as a way to grow up, get a start in life, maybe learn a skill and be part of a noble cause.
If you have kids today, recruiters will tell that familiar story. But today, less and less of it is true. - Learn more
Based on years of experience in public schools, facilitating student organizations dealing with peace (i.e. peace clubs) in your area can have a transformative impact on student autonomy and school culture around pervasive militarism. Learn more
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is a network of organizations that organizes against the militarization of schools and young people in the United States.
NNOMY brings local, regional, and national peace and human rights groups together to connect youth to pathways towards meaningful lives, as alternatives to military enlistment.
"The U.S. military is deeply embedded in public schools, shaping children’s futures long before they’re old enough to understand the consequences — and parents were never meaningfully asked."
NNOMY was founded in the aftermath of the 2004 national counter-recruitment conference "Stopping War Where it Begins" in Philadelphia.[1] It is intended to be a decentralized and flexible structure that helps national, regional and local activists and organizations by promoting communication efforts and by stimulating collaboration between network members. NNOMY organizes actions and campaigns against militarism in order to raise awareness and to increase education on the topic.
Executive Outcomes and the making of the modern mercenary
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A juzgar por sus nuevas políticas de contratación, a Pete Hegseth le importa más ganar guerras culturales que la guerra real que él mismo acaba de ayudar a iniciar.
March 30, 2026 / NNOMY staff / The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) - A mind stops accepting endless war when young people begin to see themselves not as spectators to global violence, but as builders of something better. This shift rarely begins in policy debates or news cycles. It begins in neighborhoods, school hallways, community centers, and the informal networks where youth learn what is possible.
Based on his new recruitment policies, Pete Hegseth cares more about winning culture wars than the real war he just helped start.
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Two years ago students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.
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March 16, 2026 / NNOMY Staff / National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth - The Serve Act arrives at a moment when the U.S.
March 10, 2026 / NNOMY Steering Committee / The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) - The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) affirms its unequivocal opposition to the current war of the U.S. Trump Administration against the Republic of Iran.
March 06, 2026 / NNOMY staff / The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) - Across the United States, a largely invisible system has taken shape inside public schools—one that blends curriculum, culture, and institutional access to guide young people, especially boys, toward military enlistment.
A Message to Young People Considering Military Enlistment
