王启田等在《毛泽东思想研究》2013年第1期撰文认为:毛泽东边防思想是毛泽东军事思想的重要组成部分。新中国成立以后,毛泽东将马克思主义军事理论与中国边防实际相结合,逐步形成和创立了具有中国特色的边防理论,并成功地指导了边防实践,捍卫了国家主权和领土完整,为国家经济建设提供了相对安全的周边环境,改写了中国近代有边无防、任人侵扰的屈辱历史,开创了中国边防建设史上的新篇 Wang Qitian et al. In Mao Zedong Thought Research, No. 1, 2013, the author argues that Mao Zedong’s frontier defense thought is an important part of Mao Zedong’s military thinking. After the founding of New China, Mao Zedong integrated the Marxist military theory with the reality of China’s border defense and gradually formed and established the frontier defense theory with Chinese characteristics. He successfully guided the border defense practice, defended the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and provided national economic construction Provided a relatively safe surrounding environment, rewrote the history of humiliation in modern China with no borders and no one’s harassment, and created a new chapter in the history of the construction of border areas in China