Second, the National Defense University is not a university in the traditional sense, but a short-term and medium-term training institution for senior military cadres, similar to the Party School.

National Defense University has many specialties, such as contract combat command, military ideological theory, national defense research, college education management, military political theory, postgraduate education, etc.

National defense research:

It mainly trains leading cadres at or above the corps level, local leading cadres at the provincial level, and responsible cadres at or above the bureau level of the relevant ministries and commissions of the central state organs for no more than half a year.

(two) basic departments, set up the following training courses:

1, command training course: training command cadres of units above the corps level 1 year;

2. Staff training course: training in-service staff officers of military organs at or above the corps level. The transfer targets are staff officers and officers above the corps level, with education 1 year. After graduation, students are suitable to hold leadership positions in the business departments of military organs at or above the corps level. Foundation 3. Teacher training course: training military teachers in middle and senior command colleges of the whole army. The transfer target is undergraduate graduates from the command technical colleges of the whole army, and the term is 2 years. Graduates are suitable to be military teachers in command colleges and universities and researchers in scientific research units.

(3) Department of Advanced Studies. Transfer target: military and political logistics command cadres at or above the division level; Dean of all military academies; Leading cadres at or above the division level in the provincial military region system; Military teachers and military theory researchers in intermediate command colleges have less than half a year's schooling.

Responsible for the rotation training of military, political, rear and armed command cadres of the whole army and the armed police force, leading cadres of provincial military regions and military academies, and researchers and teachers of military ideology, strategy and campaign and foreign troops, with a schooling period of less than 3 months.

(4) Graduate school, with the major of 13, mainly trains commanders, theoretical researchers and teachers with master's and doctoral degrees. Enrollment target: cadres at or above the company level who have graduated from university, been trained by the Military Command College, served in the army for more than 2 years, and have a degree of 2.5 to 3 years. Graduates are suitable for command work, work in organs above the corps level, theoretical research and teaching.

(5) The Ministry of National Defense Research has the following training courses:

1, national defense research class, enrolling leading cadres at or above the corps level in the army, at or above the level of state organs (bureaus) and at the local provincial level, with a schooling period of two and a half months;

2, strategic class, recruit leading cadres at or above the corps level, the educational system is 4 months.

3. Staff officers, recruiting staff officers at or above the corps level of the whole army and the armed police force for half a year;

4, training courses for young and middle-aged leading cadres, recruit the whole army and the armed police force deputy division, regimental leading cadres, educational system for 2 years;

5, the backbone of the staff training class, recruit staff officers at or above the corps level of the whole army and the armed police force, the educational system is 2 years.

(6) National Defense Academy:

Recruit foreign generals and field officers, including advanced training courses for foreign officers, with a duration of 5 months; National defense research class, length of schooling 1 year; Seminar on international issues, duration 1 month.