text: Chapter 6
  Occupation
  This chapter concerns the law of military occupation. It discusses when military
  occupation applies, the duties of the Occupying Power, the administration of the
  occupied territory, and the protection of the population within occupied territory. It
  further discusses the rules applicable to relief organizations in occupied territory, the
  rights and duties of the Occupying Power in regard to enemy property, the rules that
  concern obtaining services of the inhabitants, public finance in the occupied territory,
  and penal provisions in the occupied territory.
  OVERVIEW AND PRACTICAL GUIDANCE
  6-1. Military occupation of enemy territory establishes a special relationship between the government of
  the Occupying Power, the occupied government, and the civilian population of the territory occupied. The
  body of international law governing occupations recognizes that the Occupying Power is responsible for the
  general administration of the occupied territory and its civilian inhabitants, including the maintenance of
  public order and safety (HR art. 43).
  6-2. Military occupation is a temporary measure for administering territory under the control of an invading
  army, both for purposes of military necessity and of safeguarding the welfare of the population of the
  occupied territory. To administer occupied territory effectively, the Occupying Power has authority, within
  certain limits, to enact laws and to suspend certain local laws. (See HR art. 27; GC art. 64.) The Occupying
  Power generally may not suspend or alter laws that pertain to private matters such as family life, inheritance,
  and property, except as required to enable the Occupying Power to fulfill its obligations under LOAC, to
  maintain an orderly government, and to ensure the security of the Occupying Power.
  6-3. Commanders should be prepared to apply occupation law, including by planning for the requirements
  of occupation even before the entry into foreign territory. Successful stability operations may be critical to
  achieving the political objectives of combat operations. Many of the rules of occupation law reflect sound
  principles for stability operations that technically occur outside the context of occupation.
  6-4. Commanders should be prepared to work and coordinate with a range of organizations and entities on
  occupation issues to utilize relevant expertise and to ensure consistency with national policy and U.S. legal
  obligation, such as the Department of State and other national level authorities.
  6-5. Commanders should be prepared to take the necessary actions to fulfill the additional responsibilities
  of an Occupying Power, in particular, the duty to restore and ensure, as far as possible, public order and
  safety, while respecting, unless absolutely prevented, the laws in force in the country. Although the primary
  objective in conducting military occupation is to further the purpose of the war and to ensure the maintenance
  and security of occupying forces, there are important duties to provide for the interests and welfare of the
  civilian population of the occupied territory (see DOD Law of War Manual, 11.1). For example:
  * Commanders should plan and prepare to take actions to ensure there is sufficient food and clean
  water and other basic services for the inhabitants of the occupied territory;
  * Commanders should plan and prepare to take actions to stop looting after the government of the
  opposing State has been ousted; and
  * Commanders must not make arbitrary changes to the governance of the occupied territory.
  6-6. Commanders should be prepared to take the necessary actions to exercise the additional authorities
  that occupation law confers with respect to the administration of the occupied territory. For example, there
  are authorities to: