The article touches upon the issue how valuable a special education is for professional journalists. In this context, the authors consider organizational and methodological approaches to the military journalists’ training. The purpose of the article is to compare different approaches formed in other countries, and to assess the practice of their application. The authors use the method of analytical description of educational experience; on this basis, they identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threads of each approach (the SWOT analysis methodology). The results give reasons to conclude that, firstly, the optimal system of military journalists' training today is in the process of formation, and secondly, it will combine different approaches and models, which are largely due to national traditions in journalism and higher education.