A military invasion involves the entry of soldiers from one country into a foreign territory.
From the Latin invasio , invasion is the action and effect of invading . It involves interrupting, entering by force or irregularly occupying a place.
It also refers to that which enters and spreads in a place or environment, to unjustified entry into other people's functions or, in terms of a feeling, to taking over someone.
military invasion
The entry of a nation 's armed forces into a foreign territory is known as an invasion and usually has as its objective the conquest of said territory or the overthrow of a government .
An invasion involves the movement of numerous forces to control a territory. For this, various types of tactics are developed that are designed by army commanders. Whoever is invaded can use different defense methods, such as building walls or taking advantage of natural geographical features.
The military invasion is considered an aggression that violates the principles of international law. It is, in this sense, a war crime.
The causes of an intervention of this type
The reasons for an invasion can be diverse: the looting of resources, the recovery of a territory that was lost in the past, the pursuit of enemies, the protection of allies , the defense against a possible future attack or a punishment towards a certain government. are some of them.
Currently, the concept of invasion is associated with that of intervention , a kind of euphemism used by modern powers to enter a country in pursuit of a benefit for its inhabitants or for international society in general.
Many works of fiction revolve around an alien invasion.
Invasion of privacy
On a social level, invading another person's privacy is an expression that can have several meanings. On the one hand, it can be about spying on someone, and this in turn can occur in different situations and with varying degrees of malice; Some examples of this disrespectful behavior are following an individual on the street, observing them from outside their home or in public bathrooms, such as those of a sports club. If we add to this the fact of recording it on video and spreading it on the Internet, not only is the seriousness of the crime greater, but so are the consequences for the victim.
At the end of 2010, a young American committed suicide after being filmed while having sexual relations in his own bedroom. Apparently, his roommate had planned to capture on video an intimate encounter of the victim with another man, initially to play a practical joke on him; However, he later considered that the impact would be greater if he posted the recording on the Internet . Leaving aside the homophobic component of said criminal act and the fact that the boy had not declared his sexuality publicly, it was an invasion of his privacy of almost insurmountable baseness...
Alien attack
Regarding invasions by extraterrestrial beings, no story has had as much impact as Orson Welles ' famous radio broadcast. This multifaceted man counted acting and scriptwriting among his talents, and on October 30, 1938 he decided to broadcast a dramatization of a script based on the novel " The War of the Worlds ", which was intended to alert listeners of a alleged alien invasion. Although at two points in the performance it was explained that it was fiction , many listeners joined in later, and believed at face value the story they were so convincingly told.
Thousands of people called the security forces, terrified of the alien invasion of which they believed themselves to be victims. The next morning, once the situation that had generated unprecedented mass hysteria had been clarified, the only smiling face was that of Welles, whose fame had grown considerably thanks to his Halloween prank .