National Security: Invasion

We think we know an invasion when we see it. World War II in Europe clearly began when the German army invaded the Polish border on Sept. 1, 1939. The circumstances were similar when North Korea invaded the South on June 25, 1950. I was caught up in the Vietnam War when the North Vietnamese Army crossed into South Vietnam with 200 thousand troops on March 29, 1972. More recently, Russia invaded the sovereign state of the Ukraine in February of 2022, and following the Oct. 7 massacre, Israel inva