The phrase "a war of occupation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conflict where one country or group takes control of another territory, often involving military presence and governance.
Example: "The historical analysis revealed that the conflict was not merely a civil war, but rather a war of occupation that lasted for decades."
Alternatives: "an occupying war" or "a military occupation conflict".
This is a war of aggression, a war of occupation.
Even so, Iraqis and others Middle Eastern countries remain wary about possible American shenanigans with Iraqi oil and are watching sales to see whether the United States waged a war of liberation or a war of occupation.
Just ask the men and women of our military how great it is to be part of a war -- particularly part of a war of occupation in the Middle East.
Condemnation of Blackwater, however justified, can easily be syphoned into a political whirlpool that demands a cleanup of the U.S. war effort -- as though a relentless war of occupation based on lies could be redeemed by better management -- as if the occupying troops in Army and Marine uniforms are incarnations of restraint and accountability.
Anyone who visited Kabul in the past eight years knew that a western war of occupation would end in tears.
Their logic is clear: America is engaged in a brutal war of occupation; if you don't support the mission then you shouldn't support the troops.
When Fox anchors assured viewers that images of Saddam Hussein's statue falling would let the Arab world see America as a liberator, the correspondent Simon Marks, in Amman, Jordan, warned that "the Arab street" was angry; and that it would take diplomacy to convince people that this was not "an American war of occupation".
But while neither Blair nor any of those who launched a war of aggression and occupation in Iraq have been held to account, a civil servant and MP's researcher were yesterday shamefully jailed for exposing some of the dealings between Bush and Blair that lay behind the war.
On the rolling spring lawns of Kent State in the American heartland, students continued to press against an illegal, immoral war of occupation.
Not all wars of occupation are alike, but distinctions between Iraq and Chechnya blur at the body count.
Partisans were fighting three types of war: a civil war against Italian Fascists, a war of national liberation against German occupation, and a class war against the ruling elites.
