Editing False flag (section)

===Air warfare===
Between December 1922 and February 1923, a commission of jurists at [[the Hague]] drafted a set of rules concerning the Control of Wireless Telegraphy in Time of War and Air Warfare. They included:<ref>[https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Hague_Rules_of_Air_Warfare The Hague Rules of Air Warfare], December 1922 to February 1923, this convention was never adopted ([https://web.archive.org/web/20020601160139/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/interwar/hagair.htm backup site]).</ref>

{{Blockquote|{{unbulleted list|Art. 3. A military aircraft must carry an exterior mark indicating its nationality and its military character.|Art. 19. The use of false exterior marks is forbidden.}}}}

This draft was never adopted as a legally binding treaty, but the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] states in its introduction on the draft: "To a great extent, [the draft rules] correspond to the customary rules and general principles underlying treaties on the law of war on land and at sea",<ref>{{cite web |title=Rules concerning the Control of Wireless Telegraphy in Time of War and Air Warfare. Drafted by a Commission of Jurists at the Hague, December 1922 – February 1923: Introduction |publisher=[[ICRC]] |url=https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/hague-rules-1923 |access-date=11 February 2025}}</ref> and as such these two non-controversial articles were already part of customary law.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Gómez |first=Javier Guisández |title=The Law of Air Warfare |date=20 June 1998 |journal=[[International Review of the Red Cross]] |volume=38 |issue=323 |pages=347–63 |df=dmy |doi=10.1017/S0020860400091075 |url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/57jpcl.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425044944/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/57jpcl.htm |archive-date=25 April 2013|url-access=subscription }}</ref>