Five Stages of Combat

The Five Stages of Combat was the name given to the codified starfighter techniques in Adar Tallon's Treatise on Starfighter Tactics. The first stage was detection, the second was closing, the third stage was attack, the fourth being maneuver, and the fifth was disengagement.

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