occupation forces
Foreign controlling troops
Occupation forces are military troops stationed in foreign territory after conquest or conflict, maintaining control until a peace settlement or new government is established.
The term carries connotations of imposed authority and often local resentment: The occupation forces faced growing resistance from the population.
Distinguished from peacekeeping forces by their unilateral rather than multilateral mandate.
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- troop deploymentStationing soldiers operationally
- foreign troopsMilitary personnel from elsewhere
- insurgencyArmed uprising against authority
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
martial law · military governor · puppet government · checkpoints · house searches · identity papers · garrison · guerrilla warfare · sabotage · underground networks · espionage · patrol units · nonviolent resistance · counterintelligence · protests · propaganda · war crimes tribunals · curfews
- armed forcesarmy, military, soldiers, troops, marines
- military forcesarmy, soldiers, troops, militias, reserve army
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cold War militariesSoviet Army, Warsaw Pact, Soviet military, People's Liberation Army, tank divisions
- Norway WWIIhome front, German invasion, Nazi invasion, resistance fighters, commando raids
- wartime organizationsWar Department, USO, civil defense, Home Guard, Selective Service
occupation forcesliberators
Those who free captives
liberation forces · liberation army · freedom fighters · resistance fighters · peacekeeping forces
occupation forceshome guard
Local civilian defense volunteers
self-defense forces · territorial defense · native troops · independence movement · local militia
occupation, force, occupy, occupied, occupying, occupier, occupiers, occupant, occupants