时下一些人认为,国防教育是军事行为,是为战争服务的。现在是以经济建设中心的和平时期,因而不愿履行国防教育义务,怕开展国防教育活动影响其经济效益。笔者认为,这种认识是错误的。国防教育作为一种社会教育活动,目的在于唤起人们的国家安全意识,关心、支持国防建设,自觉履行国防义务,以有效地维护国家的综合安全和权益。广大人民群众强烈的国家安全意识,“国家兴亡,匹夫有责”的使命感,本身就 Nowadays, some people think that national defense education is a military act and serves the war. Now it is a time of peace in the center of economic construction. Therefore, it is unwilling to fulfill its obligation of national defense education and is afraid that its national defense education activities will affect its economic benefits. The author believes that this understanding is wrong. As a kind of social education activity, national defense education aims to arouse people’s consciousness of national security, care and support national defense construction and conscientiously fulfill its national defense obligations so as to effectively safeguard the comprehensive security and rights and interests of the country. The broad masses of people have a strong sense of national security and a sense of mission of “the rise and fall of the country and the responsibility of every country” itself