1. Attach importance to the position and role of the people's army in national defense construction. The people's army is the strong backing for safeguarding national security and national unity, and the core force for national defense construction. He stressed that it is necessary to build a people's army that listens to the party's command, serves the people, and is brave and good at fighting. This army should have strong fighting capacity and cohesion, and can effectively resist foreign invasion and defend national security.
2. Emphasize the military strategy of active defense. In war, defense and attack are interdependent and mutually transformed, and there is no absolute defense and attack. Therefore, he put forward a military strategy of active defense, that is, focusing on defense and actively attacking, with the ultimate goal of destroying the enemy and winning. This military strategy embodies the understanding of the laws of war and the flexible use of war strategies.
3. Attach importance to the development of national defense science and technology and weapons and equipment. It is believed that the modernization of weapons and equipment is an important symbol of national defense modernization, and it is necessary to vigorously develop national defense science and technology and weapons and equipment. He put forward the slogan of "Do it yourself and have plenty of food and clothing", encouraged domestic independent research and production of weapons and equipment, and promoted the modernization of national defense science and technology and weapons and equipment.
4. Emphasize the cultivation of national defense awareness. It is considered that the national defense consciousness of the whole people is an important aspect of national defense construction. He put forward the slogan of "preparing for war, preparing for famine and serving the people", which combined preparing for war with serving the people and made preparing for war a conscious action of the whole people. At the same time, he also stressed the need to carry out patriotism education and revolutionary heroism education to improve the national defense awareness and patriotism of the whole people.
Great contribution of national defense construction thought;
In the magnificent revolutionary war in China in the first half of the 20th century, the older generation of revolutionaries, represented by Deng Xiaoping's military thought, combined Marxism–Leninism's universal principles with the concrete reality of China's revolution and founded military thought.
Under the guidance of this scientific theory, our army from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong, finally defeated the powerful reactionaries and established the new China. As the commander-in-chief who commanded the war, he established a high prestige among the broad masses of soldiers and civilians with extraordinary military talents. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China still devoted a lot of efforts to military issues.
He carefully guided the national defense and army building of new China, led the broad masses of soldiers and civilians in a series of military struggles to defend the motherland, defended national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, fundamentally got rid of the history of "having a country but not defending it" in old China, and made the Chinese nation stand on its own feet among the nations of the world.
In practice, the leaders of New China have constantly summed up experience and explored laws, formed the thought of national defense construction with China characteristics, and found a successful way to carry out national defense construction in socialist countries with weak economic foundation. This is not only the enrichment and development of military thought, but also a great contribution to Marxist military science.
On the occasion of commemorating the birthday of 120, it is of great significance to study and understand the thought of national defense construction seriously and deeply understand its great contribution and time value to strengthening national defense and army construction in the new century and new stage and realizing the dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.