Starfighter combat, also known as dogfighting, referred to engagements fought by starfighters in space or a planet's atmosphere. Along with space warfare and ground warfare, by 0 BBY it was one of the three major disciplines of war. Starfighter combat was as old as the craft themselves—dating back to the earliest days of the Galactic Republic—and became an integral part of aerospace warfare for tens of thousands of years, occurring throughout conflicts such as the Great Hyperspace War, New Sith Wars, Clone Wars, the Galactic Civil War, the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Second Galactic Civil War and beyond.