National Defense University was established on February 24th, 1985 with the approval of the State Council and the Central Military Commission. Its history can be traced back to the central military and political school in the central revolutionary base area in the early days of the founding of our army, and later reorganized into the Red Army University. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was renamed China People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. During the War of Liberation, anti-Japanese military and political universities were divided into military and political universities in liberated areas. After the liberation of the whole country, in order to meet the needs of cultivating senior military talents in peacetime, the PLA Military Academy, Political Academy, Logistics Academy and Advanced Military Academy were successively established in 1950s, and the military and political universities were established after 1969 was abolished at the same time. The predecessor of the National Defense University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was the Red Army Teaching Team founded by Mao Zedong in Jinggangshan on 1927. The Red Army University of Chinese Workers and Peasants, the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and the advanced military academy and military and political university after the founding of the People's Republic of China. 1985,65438+In February, the Military Academy, the Political Academy and the Logistics Academy merged to form the National Defense University.