On the one hand, the national defense force with patriotism as its spiritual pillar is invincible, and the main function of national defense education is to stimulate citizens' patriotic enthusiasm and lay a solid ideological foundation for national defense construction. On the other hand, if a country wants to build national defense, it must pay attention to two aspects: one is material construction, the other is spiritual construction, mainly national defense education.
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 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. It is precisely because of the consistency of purpose, content and means between national defense education and socialist spiritual civilization construction that the former becomes an indispensable part of the latter, which further shows the important role of national defense education in strengthening national cohesion and improving the quality of the whole people in socialist spiritual civilization construction, and shows that national defense education is an important part of socialist spiritual civilization construction.