It would be very easy to starve Qadaffi’s forces by cutting off their supply lines, but that would require boots on the ground. The Libyan army is stretched for 100s of kilometers along the coast and wouldn’t survive a week if they were cut off from resupply of munitions.
This fight would be very different if we could insert troops on the ground, either between Sirte and Misrata to help Misrata, and reduce supplies to Sirte; or between Sirte and Ras Lanuf to engage Qs troops headed to Ajdabia and/or cut off resupply. Meanwhile, I wonder what is being done at sea to cut off supplies of both food and guns to Qs people and to resupply Misrata and the East? Ultimately, the British and French may decide to turn this into a tank battle. I know the British Centurion tanks were with our M1Abrams in Gulf War I because my son was there with the 82nd Airborne and Sheridan air mobile tanks.