Principles: Combine regular education with centralized education, combine universal education with key education, and combine theoretical education with behavioral education.

According to the national defense education law, national defense education should adhere to the principle of "combining regular education with centralized education, combining universal education with key education, and combining theoretical education with behavioral education". This is not only the criterion for developing national defense education, but also the basic method of national defense education. 1. Combine regular education with centralized education. This is a different way of education between China and America. Regular education stipulates the timeliness of education and requires national defense education to be regular and uninterrupted. Centralized education stipulates the organization mode of education, that is, the time, content and personnel of national defense education can be centralized. The combination of the two means that people and content can be concentrated in regular education; At the same time, centralized education can also be carried out frequently. The regularity of national defense education is rooted in the eternity of national defense construction. National defense construction requires national defense education.