Azerbaijan, Baku, March 10 /Trend/
A pre-emptive strike against the air force of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi would not necessarily be required to impose a no-fly zone, Britain's defence secretary said Thursday, dpa reported.
Liam Fox, speaking ahead of a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Brussels, suggested there could be "alternatives" to a pre-emptive strike.
Fox told the BBC that, rather than "taking out" air defences, NATO leaders could say that, if an enemy locked its air defence radar on NATO planes, they could "regard that as a hostile action and take subsequent action."
"That's one military option but there are other military options that we have used," said Fox, who is considered to be a hardliner on defence.
The NATO meeting in Brussels was aimed at making sure that "we are all on the same page," he said.