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Practice Relating to Rule 8. Definition of Military Objectives
Section A. General
III. Military Manuals
Mexico’s IHL Guidelines (2009) states:
Military objectives are:
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- … objects which by their nature, location or purpose make an effective contribution to military action and whose destruction or capture offers a military advantage. 
Mexico, Cartilla de Derecho Internacional Humanitario, Ministry of National Defence, 2009, § 8.
VI. Other National Practice
At the CDDH, Mexico stated that it believed Article 47 of the draft Additional Protocol I (now Article 52) to be so essential that it “cannot be the subject of any reservations whatsoever since these would be inconsistent with the aim and purpose of Protocol I and undermine its basis”. 
Mexico, Statement at the CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.41, 26 May 1977, p. 193.