The purpose of China's national defense education is not to cultivate reserve forces, but to cultivate young people's patriotism, sense of discipline and respect for soldiers. The success or failure of national defense education should also be measured by whether the goal is achieved. In addition, the means of national defense education should be diversified, not limited to military training and military theory courses in universities, and the media should participate more in national defense education.

Discussion:

1. What is modern national defense education?

1. Professional military skill education does not belong to modern national defense education.

The professionalism of the modern army is extremely strong, and professional military skills, like other professional skills, have been specialized and standardized. Ordinary people have no professional training and cannot compete with professionals. But unlike other professional skills, military skills are powerful enough to kill people. Once they are widely spread, the consequences are unimaginable.

In addition, due to the strong professionalism, the scope of application of professional military skills is quite small, and they are often only useful in the battlefield and are not used at all in daily life. It is obviously neither economical nor realistic to take up a lot of time for students to learn these skills.

2. Looking at national defense education from modern wars and modern soldiers.

National defense education, in the final analysis, serves the war. Since citizens live in this land, they have the obligation to defend this land from foreign aggression, but not everyone has such consciousness, so national defense education is inevitable. If we do a good job, the morale of the army will be high and the people will support the army, and the chances of victory in the war will obviously be greater.

The emergence of modern wars has strengthened the importance of national defense education.

The important feature of modern warfare is the high level of military science and technology. Machines replace humans on the battlefield, and a small group of modern soldiers armed to the teeth can almost rival an ancient legion. Building such a high-tech modern army requires not only high military expenditure, but also high-intensity training and efficient command system, which further strengthens the specialization of the modern army and makes it a professional and efficient killing machine.

The highly specialized army is getting farther and farther away from ordinary people. Modern people no longer like romance on the battlefield, but begin to hate the devastating impact of war on daily life. The new media represented by social platforms has made the army a scapegoat for the atrocities of war. People immersed in human rights thinking hate those soldiers who take killing as their duty, and regard them as human demons and executioners with blood on their hands. "Developed" countries such as Germany and Japan are undergoing such changes. The status of soldiers in the country is getting worse every day. Street demonstrators threw rotten eggs at soldiers who maintained public order, shouted insults, and even took the initiative to attack the exposure, making everyone unwilling to be a soldier, let alone defend their country.

At this time, national defense education assumed the responsibility. It is necessary to tell young students that your life is not born. Many countries in the world are eyeing our land. You can't see the darkness because the soldiers keep it out of your sight. Loving the army means loving the country, and loving the country has today's life. This kind of education must be combined with the education of historical view and beware of historical nihilism.

Second, what is the current national defense education in China and how should it be improved?

1. At present, national defense education in China is facing a crisis of marginalization.

In my opinion, there are two problems in our national defense education. One is too ideological and political, and the other is too old-fashioned

"Ideological and political" is manifested in the fact that the military theory course is not divided from the political course, which easily makes students feel disgusted and thinks that the military theory course is useless and irrelevant, thus diluting its role;

Too old to show that our army's development achievements are too little and too old. The description of the international situation still stays at the end of the cold war, and there are few descriptions of the new changes in the development of our army.

So I think national defense education has been marginalized intentionally or unintentionally, which has something to do with China's long history. Once national defense education fails to meet the needs of young people, the atmosphere of hating the army and despising soldiers will rise, which is quite unfavorable.

2. National defense education should be a new media.

The current national defense education must be in line with the new media and find ways that young people like.

But these are not enough. What we want is more real interaction. Maybe we can select qualified servicemen, describe the life in the military camp from a personal perspective, interact with netizens and show the outside world a more real military life.