Invasion
Invasion is a word that comes from Latin. Originally, it meant that something goes in (as in military occupation) of a foreign territory. So far, the following uses are known:
- Military: Getting troops to take control of enemy territory. Often a state invades another to start a war, but invasions can happen anytime during war. An invasion differs from a raid, in which the attacker does not intend to remain.
- Others: Sometimes, biologists speak about an invasive species. There might be locust swarms invading, or that some algae spread far more rapidly in new territory.
Invasion Media
A defensive wall, the Great Wall of China.
View from Dover Castle.
The view from a battery at Ouvrage Schoenenbourg in Alsace; notice the retractable turret in the left foreground.
German troops march through Warsaw, Poland in 1939 during the German invasion of Poland
An LCAC carrying LAVs ashore during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Thousands of paratroopers descend during Operation Market Garden in September 1944.
U.S. forces distribute information leaflets on the streets of Kut, Iraq in May 2003.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressing the European Parliament during an extraordinary plenary session in Brussels.