编辑同志: 最近从报刊上看到《公民国防义务手册》出版发行的消息后,我们感到很兴奋。因为目前社会上流传的国防教育的书很多,有不少是粗制滥造的,缺乏权威性。而《公民国防义务手册》,经中央军委主席邓小平亲自题签书名、国防部长秦基伟作序,集古今中外有关国防知识之大成,全面准确阐述了我国政府颁布的国防义务的有关法令和 Editor’s Comrade: We are very excited to see the publication of the Civil Defense Pamphlet recently published in the press. Because there are many books on national defense education circulating in the community at present, many are abusive and not authoritative. The Civil Defense Pamphlet, which was autographed by Deng Xiaoping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Defense Minister Qin Jiwei in the preface to set forth the precepts of national defense knowledge at all times and in all countries, comprehensively and accurately expounded the relevant laws and decrees on the national defense obligations promulgated by the Chinese government and