Editing Rebel Alliance (section)

==== Alliance Starfleet ====
The Alliance military largely consisted of [[Aircraft boneyard|mothballed]], improvised, [[repurpose]]d, or stolen [[Civilian aircraft|civilian ships]] from dozens of manufacturers; they lacked the means, resources or shipyards to build, maintain and crew thousands of military-grade [[capital ship]]s. The Alliance constantly had to change bases and their carrier ships routinely had to escape into hyperspace ''before'' recovering their fighter complement. The biggest and most powerful warship they had available were several [[Mon Calamari cruiser|MC80 star cruisers]] supplied to the Alliance by [[Mon Calamari (fictional planet)|Mon Calamari]], but the Alliance Fleet kept these in reserve and never risked deploying them, even when strategically critical bases in [[Atollon]], [[Yavin]], and [[Hoth]] came under siege. The Alliance fleet is geared towards [[fabian strategy]], [[space superiority]], [[Wolfpack (naval tactic)|wolfpack operations]], [[hit-and-run tactics]], secret missions, [[wikt:subterfuge|subterfuge]], and general elements of a [[Statelessness|stateless]] military [[grand strategy]]. They used gunships and corvettes to screen Imperial starfighters. Their warships carried a complement of expensive starfighters equipped with [[Hyperdrive (Star Wars)|FTL hyperdrives]] and [[Force field (technology)|deflector shields]] that traveled alongside the fleet. This was in contrast to Imperial naval doctrine, whose [[TIE fighter|TIE-series starfighters]] were lightly armored and lacked hyperdrives to lower unit cost and discourage pilot defection. The Alliance's focus on small [[Light combat aircraft|light combat]] ships and on starfighters allowed them to effectively fight the Galactic Empire's well-funded and well-armed military.

The Alliance Starfleet almost never become decisively engaged or placed their ships at risk; they avoided [[pitched battle]]s, [[frontal assault]]s, [[attrition warfare|wars of attrition]] and [[conventional warfare|conventional]], symmetric engagements with the Imperials at all costs. Instead of engaging the Imperials in open firefights, the Rebel Alliance largely embraced flexible non-committal attack tactics utilizing mainly [[Fast attack craft|fast attack]] [[CR90 corvettes]] supplied to the Alliance by [[Alderaan]]. The Imperial leadership considered [[collateral damage]] as "[[War crime|acceptable margins]]" in rooting out insurgents; this contrasted against the Alliance's [[Surgical strike|surgical precision]] to avoid [[civilian casualties]]. To minimize losses, the Alliance military leadership heavily favored [[carrier battle group]]s supporting [[List of Star Wars starfighters|starfighter]] strike crafts for fast-attack style of warfare, thereby leveraging a decisive advantage over the Galactic Empire's "big powerful ships" doctrine. [[Operational level of war|Anti-Imperial operations]] emphasized [[Raid (military)|depredation]] and delayed actions, covertly relocating compromised bases to another secured system, [[interdiction]] in slowing down the Imperials' momentum, and inflicting maximum damage on the enemy without, in principle, becoming decisively engaged.