In the new era, patriotism education is particularly important. College students in the new era should have a comprehensive understanding of national defense knowledge, and strengthening national defense awareness and education is the basis for building and consolidating national defense. National defense education is an invincible national defense force with patriotism as its spiritual pillar. The main function of national defense education is to officially inspire citizens' patriotism as hot pillow. Find a solid foundation for national defense construction. National defense education is an important part of socialist spiritual civilization construction. Fundamentally speaking, national defense education and socialist spiritual civilization construction are aimed at improving the quality of China citizens, cultivating qualified talents and inspiring the people of the whole country to build China into a prosperous, strong, democratic and civilized socialist modern country. For college students now, they should have a good understanding of national defense education. China is an ancient country with a history of 5,000 years, and national defense education has a fine tradition. In recent years, with the expansion of the scale of colleges and universities and the changes in the situation at home and abroad, colleges and universities have encountered many new situations and problems in the process of carrying out national defense education. In particular, the lack of national defense moral emotion of some college students is increasingly prominent, which makes national defense education in colleges and universities face more choices and take the initiative to meet challenges. It is very important and urgent to actively study the problems existing in college students' national defense education. For a qualified and excellent college student, national defense education is essential, which can condense the basic content of national defense moral education for college students, that is, the education of loving national self-esteem and self-confidence and being prepared for danger in times of peace.