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Practice Relating to Rule 8. Definition of Military Objectives
Section A. General
III. Military Manuals
Peru’s IHL Manual (2004) states: “Military objectives are those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization offers a definite military advantage.” 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial Nº 1394-2004-DE/CCFFAA/CDIH-FFAA, Lima, 1 December 2004, § 98; see also § 172.c.
Peru’s IHL and Human Rights Manual (2010) states:
89. Military Objectives
Objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization offers a definite military advantage. 
Peru, Manual de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos para las Fuerzas Armadas, Resolución Ministerial No. 049-2010/DE/VPD, Lima, 21 May 2010, § 89, p. 291; see also § 163(c), pp. 343 and 410.
IV. National Legislation
Peru’s Decree on the Use of Force by the Armed Forces (2010) states:
A military objective … is an objective which by its nature, location, purpose or use contributes to the actions of the hostile group and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization offers a military advantage. 
Peru, Decree on the Use of Force by the Armed Forces, 2010, Article 3(j).