Law of War
11.1.1 Military Occupation – Notes on Terminology.

11.1.1.1 Military Occupation, Military Government, Belligerent Occupation, and
Martial Law. The practice of conducting military occupation is very old, and the law of military
occupation has long been part of the law of war.
4 Military occupation is also called belligerent
occupation. The conduct of military occupation has also been characterized as an exercise of
“military government”5 or “martial law.”