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even sovereignty of the invading force but
its willingness and capacity to commit hostile acts against the state or its people.'
"Notably, entrants need not occupy territory or attack with or against military forces to meet the threshold of enmity.
While invasion is most often and aptly used to describe the hostile military action of one nation against another and
thereby typically excludes the actions of rogue individuals and roving gangs, it can also describe, and has been authoritatively used in American history to describe, the actions of non-state actors like “pirates and barbarians” (Hamilton
et al., 1788/2014)."