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• compacts between enemies, such as truces and capitulations, shall be faithfully adheredto; 22• no advantage not intended to be given by the adversary shall be taken; 23 and• the means of conducting non-hostile relations (such as flags of truce) must not bemisused. 24On the other hand, the principle of good faith does not prohibit belligerents from:• continuing their military operations while negotiations are ongoing; 25 or• declining to respond to offers to negotiate, refusing offers to negotiate, or refusingspecific offers from the adversary for reasons of military expediency. 2612.3 METHODS FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BELLIGERENTSBelligerents may communicate with one another through a variety of methods, including:• directly by telecommunications; 2722 Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, Letter to Waddy Thompson, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and MinisterPlenipotentiary of the United States to the Mexican Republic, Apr. 15, 1842, reprinted in THE DIPLOMATIC ANDOFFICIAL PAPERS OF DANIEL WEBSTER, WHILE SECRETARY OF STATE 321, 331 (1848) (“If there is one rule of thelaw of war more clear and peremptory than another, it is that compacts between enemies, such as truces andcapitulations, shall be faithfully adhered to; and their non-observance is denounced as being manifestly at variancewith the true interest and duty; not only of the immediate parties, but of all mankind.”).23 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 453 (“It is absolutely essential in all nonhostile relations that the mostscrupulous good faith shall be observed by both parties, and that no advantage not intended to be given by theadversary shall be taken.”).24 2004 UK MANUAL 10.2 (“Whenever there are non-hostile relations between parties to an armed conflict, thoserelations must be conducted with the utmost good faith and any agreement reached scrupulously observed. Inparticular, there should be no abuse of a flag of truce or emblems of identification in dealings betweenbelligerents.”).25 For example, Donald W. Boose, Jr., Fighting While Talking: The Korean War Truce Talks, OAH MAGAZINE OFHISTORY, 25, 27 (Spring 2000) (“The truce talks resumed on 26 April [1953], and the two sides quickly agreed onthe broad outlines of a plan to deal with the POW issue through a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commissioncomposed of the same members as the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, in addition to India. There werestill unresolved issues, however. The U.S. leadership, losing patience with the slow pace of negotiations, nowattempted to use military action to pressure the Chinese and North Koreans. In May U.S. aircraft attacked irrigationdams near Pyongyang, disrupting rail lines and roads and further straining the North Korean infrastructure. Then on20 May Eisenhower and his advisors decided that if no progress were made, the UNC would initiate a militaryoffensive that might include attacks on China and the use of nuclear weapons.”).26 Refer to § 12.5.2 (Refusal or Reception of a Parlementaire).27 For example, James Reston, Ridgway in Offer; Key Figure in Truce Plan Receives a Visitor U.S. Asks Commandof Reds to Parley, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jun. 30, 1951 (“In accordance with Presidential instructionsrecommended by the National Security Council and dispatched from the Pentagon at 1:27 o’clock this afternoon,Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway of the United States broadcast the following message at 6 P.M. to ‘The Commander inChief, Communist Forces in Korea’:”).826