Looking back at history, we will find that from the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, from the Central Plains to the Yuan Dynasty, princes competed with each other, Mongolian fighters prevailed in Europe and Asia, and soldiers greatly strengthened Mazhuang, ensuring the consolidation of political power and the prosperity of dynasties. Later, in the Song Dynasty, literature was valued over martial arts, and poverty and weakness were accumulated. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, politics was decadent and national defense was empty. In the midst of internal troubles and foreign invasion, the Chinese Empire paid tribute to cede territory and pay reparations. The huge Chinese empire has no power to defend itself in the face of "barbarians", let alone fight back! The century-old shame is deeply branded in the history of China, warning every descendant: a weak country has no diplomacy! As the saying goes, "the country cannot be defenceless, and the people cannot be defended." If the Chinese nation wants to rank among the world's outstanding nations and China wants to rank among the world's powerful countries, it must speed up national defense construction and enhance its national defense strength.
Today, economic globalization has become one of the most important development trends in the world. Political multipolarization has maintained a delicate balance of struggle and cooperation among world powers. Developing economic and scientific and technological strength has become the core of the national policy of all countries in the world. The old world pattern has collapsed, and the new world pattern has not yet formed. In this special historical period, China is facing challenges and opportunities. Peace and development are the theme of the times, but the factors that threaten world peace and development still exist: hegemonism and power politics are stubborn, terrorism is arrogant, extreme right forces in Japan are emerging one after another, religious contradictions and regional conflicts are one after another, and transnational crimes such as drug trafficking and smuggling are repeatedly banned. We must keep a high degree of vigilance against this. In order to protect the fundamental interests of the country and the people, we must revitalize national defense! Youth is the hope of the country. "Youth makes the country prosperous and youth makes the country strong". College students are an excellent group of young people in China, and they should undertake the historical mission of promoting national defense modernization. National defense education can stimulate our patriotic enthusiasm and cultivate our excellent qualities of courage, tenacity, perseverance, hard work and fear of difficulties. Therefore, actively participating in the national defense construction of the motherland is not only a way for us to serve the motherland, but also a correct way for us to improve our own quality and realize the value of life. Therefore, college students' enlistment is of great significance to national defense education.
First, the enlistment of contemporary college students is a concrete manifestation of implementing military service regulations. College students are the representatives of outstanding young people of the Chinese nation, and they are the important reserve forces to consolidate China's national defense, resist foreign aggression, defend the independence of the motherland and safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Therefore, it is the unshirkable responsibility of college students to perform military service obligations in accordance with the law, receive military training during school, and learn and master basic military theoretical knowledge and skills.
Article 3 of China's military service law stipulates: "China people and China citizens, regardless of nationality, race, occupation, family background, religious belief and education level, have the obligation to perform military service in accordance with the provisions of this law." As college students, they also have the obligation to perform military service obligations. In the past, due to China's rich military resources, a large number of high school graduates or young recruits with equivalent education met the needs of conscription work at that time. Therefore, for a long time, except for a few directly recruited officers or civilian cadres, most college students in our country have not fulfilled their military service obligations. With the development of education in China, the enrollment scale of colleges and universities is expanding, and the number of college students is increasing year by year, especially some private colleges and universities are also included in the national enrollment plan. In this way, more and more young people of school age can enter the university, and the number of people who have not been admitted to high school is relatively reduced, which has a certain impact on the completion of the recruitment task.
In view of this situation, recruiting college students to perform military service obligations broadens the scope of recruiting new recruits and includes more aspiring young people who are determined to devote themselves to national defense. College students generally have a strong sense of patriotism and national defense, and many of them have long had the ambition to join the army and serve the motherland with pens; At the same time, recruiting college students into the army according to law can make them understand the army earlier and receive systematic national defense education, which will have a far-reaching impact on the national defense awareness of college students and even the whole people. In the long run, recruiting college students to join the army is an inevitable trend of China's economic development and army building.
Second, the enlistment of contemporary college students is the realistic need of our army's modernization. Since the founding of New China, soldiers as the main body of the army are mainly composed of people with high school education or below. In the last century, they can be called a literate army. But in 2 1 century, the world's science and technology advanced by leaps and bounds, and modern wars are all high-tech long-distance operations. Soldiers operating modern weapons are still a group below high school, which has fallen far behind the needs of the times. With the development of society, only by improving the combat effectiveness and modernization level of the army and strengthening the national defense strength can we defend the victory of national development. It is impossible to improve the modernization level of the army's combat effectiveness if it stays on the personnel structure with a high school education level lower than that in the 1950s and 1960s. Defending national security and safeguarding the reunification of the motherland is the fundamental purpose of our army. The strategic policy of our army in the new period is to win local wars under modern high-tech conditions. Therefore, we must realize two changes, that is, from intensive to scientific and technological, and from quantitative scale to quality and efficiency. The core is to fight against technology. Then, to realize the two transformations and ensure victory, the key lies in talents. Where do talents come from? Only relying on military schools to train talents can no longer meet the needs of level and quantity, so college students' enlistment is of great benefit to promoting national defense modernization. Similarly, when a college student soldier and a high school student soldier go to a military academy for training, the knowledge of the college student soldier must be wider than that of the high school student soldier, so as to master military knowledge and skills faster and deeper. The trained cadres have a high knowledge structure and play a greater role in the army. Our army is gradually strengthening quality construction and strengthening the army through science and technology. With the development of military modernization, a large number of new weapons and equipment units need not only high-quality officers, but also soldiers with higher cultural quality to operate and maintain. Therefore, it is of great significance for college students to join the army to optimize the cultural structure of the army, adapt to the knowledge-intensive and advanced technology needs of the army, accelerate the strengthening of the army through science and technology, and take the road of elite soldiers.
Third, the enlistment of contemporary college students is a manifestation of conforming to the world trend. Throughout the world, all countries attach great importance to military training for college students and regard it as an important measure to strengthen national defense construction. The United States has enacted a national defense education law, and at the same time, it has also enacted a national military training and military service law specifically for young adults, requiring citizens to participate in military training and fulfill their military service obligations at a specified age. According to statistics, 30% generals and 40% officers of the US Army are college graduates of the Reserve Training Corps School. With the rapid development of military high technology, the form of war and the way of fighting have undergone qualitative changes. The future war is a competition between technology and talents. College students should consciously integrate into the army construction system to ensure the continuous improvement of the overall construction level of the army.
Fourthly, the enlistment of contemporary college students is an objective need to promote national defense education for all. Young students are an important part of contemporary society and the most vivid and energetic group. Their quality and national defense concept will have a great radiation effect on society. Therefore, we must firmly grasp the foundation of young students in order to enhance their national spirit to radiate and promote the enhancement of the national defense concept of the whole society. Joining the army for college students is an excellent form of implementing national defense education, which can not only enable students to learn certain military knowledge and skills, but also cultivate their organizational discipline and hard-working spirit. Through systematic national defense knowledge and international security education, we will enhance their sense of hardship, stimulate their patriotic enthusiasm and ambition to serve the country, enhance their sense of political responsibility in building and defending the motherland, and consciously shoulder the historical mission entrusted by the times. Years of practice have proved that college students' enlistment is a fundamental good policy to implement national defense education practice activities and enhance students' national defense concept, and it is also a wise move to promote the objective needs of national defense education for all.