military occupation
effective provisional control of a certain power over a territory
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Military occupation occurs when one country's armed forces take effective control over another territory, typically during or after a conflict. It matters because it raises questions about who governs the occupied land, what rights the local population has, and how long such control should last.
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American tanks at the Victory Arch in the city of Baghdad during the occupation of Iraq, 2003 British Indian troops of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles in the city of Kure during the Allied occupation of Japan, 1946
Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory. The controlled territory is called occupied territory, and the ruling power is called the occupant. Occupation's intended temporary nature distinguishes it from annexation and colonialism. The occupant often establishes military rule to facilitate administration of the occupied territory, though this is not a necessary characteristic of occupation.