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We can characterize the invasion as that act by which a person or group of people violently or suddenly occupy a territory or space previously occupied by another group of people. The invasion is a normally conflictive act since it confronts two or more parties who from that moment enter a litigation to know who owns the territory and why. Usually, the term is used in military settings or when referring to historical events, but it can also be a minor phenomenon when a group of people invade a building or entity, etc.

Invasion is the sudden and usually violent occupation of a space that is being occupied by others. It can be carried out for different reasons, mainly they usually have to do with economic, political or geographical issues. There are cases of territorial invasions in great quantity in the history of the Humanity, some of them justified if historical, geographical or social reasons are taken into account and others based on a desire to conquest or from imperialism.

One of the main problems of the invasion is that it usually generates important conflicts between those who occupy the territory and those who wish to occupy it. In some cases we can even speak of possession of a territory by right or by fact, which means that although a territorial space belongs to a people, in fact the one that occupies it is another, which is why it could also come to belong to them.

Conflicts, wars and confrontations between different peoples due to invasions and occupations of territories is a phenomenon permanent in Humanity, existing even today cases without possible resolution such as the case of Palestine and Israel. Others have been solved by the use of the force, as happened for example with the European invasion and conquest of America to pre-Columbian societies. Finally, there may also be cases of planned invasions that are only temporary, in the context of a war or conflict (such as during the Second World War when the Americans invaded Normandy in order to prevent the Nazi advance).