What is the main task of national defense education?

The fundamental task of national defense education is to teach citizens national defense theory, publicize national defense laws and regulations, instill national defense knowledge, and train military skills through various forms of education, so that citizens can establish national defense awareness and master national defense theory. and knowledge, have certain military skills, and be able to consciously perform national defense obligations. The specific educational tasks are as follows.

(1) Popularize national defense knowledge. National defense common sense is the simplest and most basic knowledge in the field of national defense, and it is knowledge that needs to be generally mastered by citizens. For example, knowledge about the national flag, national emblem, and national anthem, knowledge about border defense, coastal defense, and air defense, knowledge about national sovereignty and territorial integrity, knowledge about national character and personality, etc., are all the most basic common sense of national defense. Common sense directly guides and restricts people's behavior. With certain common sense, people's behavior and speech will be more standardized; if they lack common sense, they may make jokes.

One of the tasks of national defense education is to enable all citizens to generally understand national defense knowledge through popular education and to use national defense knowledge to regulate speech and actions related to national defense activities. In this way, citizens can be shown to have certain qualities when participating in activities related to national defense.

(2) Instilling national defense laws and regulations. my country's Constitution, National Defense Law, Military Service Law, Military Facilities Protection Law, National Defense Education Law and other laws and related regulations stipulate citizens' national defense obligations and rights. For example, Article 55 of my country’s Constitution stipulates: “Defending the motherland and resisting aggression is the sacred duty of every citizen of the People’s Republic of China. It is the duty of citizens of the People’s Republic of China to perform military service and join militia organizations in accordance with the law. Honorable obligations. "Article 6 of the "National Defense Law" stipulates: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China shall perform national defense obligations in accordance with the law." Article 50 of the "National Defense Law" stipulates: "Performing military service and participating in militia organizations in accordance with the law are the obligations of the Chinese people. The honorable obligations of citizens of the People's Republic of China. "It is necessary to educate citizens on national defense laws and regulations so that citizens can generally understand the national defense obligations they should bear and the national defense rights they enjoy, so that they can consciously fulfill their national defense responsibilities.

(3) Promote national defense knowledge. The content of national defense knowledge is very rich, including both general national defense knowledge and theoretical knowledge of national defense; both historical knowledge of national defense and practical national defense knowledge. Appropriate knowledge should be selected according to the acceptance ability and actual needs of the education subjects. For example, ordinary citizens should understand general national defense knowledge and national defense history knowledge; leaders, national civil servants, officers and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force, militiamen, and reserve personnel should learn certain national defense theories on the basis of mastering general national defense knowledge; all Personnel should receive realistic national defense education based on the situation and tasks.

(4) Cultivate national defense moral sentiments. The moral sentiment of national defense with the spirit of patriotism as its main content is an important spiritual pillar of national defense. With a deep sense of national defense ethics, when national security is threatened, citizens can consciously stand up and defend their country at the expense of their lives. Without the moral sentiment of national defense, even if a country is very rich and its armed forces are very powerful, its national defense will be fragile. Because national defense without the support of citizens’ patriotism will be difficult to resist subversion and aggression by external forces. Cultivating citizens' national defense moral sentiments is the most important task of national defense education. It is necessary to influence the ideological consciousness of citizens through national defense history education, national humiliation education, and patriotic case education, so that all citizens can firmly establish the national defense moral sentiments of loving the motherland.

(5) Training military skills. In order to fulfill national defense obligations and cultivate a martial spirit, citizens need to receive basic military physical fitness and skills training. The content includes training on general queue movements, "three defense" skills, small arms shooting, self-rescue and mutual rescue skills, as well as general military knowledge learning.