strategic maneuver

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Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander of the Ukrainian military, scoffed at the Russian’s announced retreat, suggesting in a Facebook post on Thursday that it was a voluntary strategic maneuver intended to save its soldiers lives.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

In a statement, the committee tried to brand the decision as a strategic maneuver rather than a defeat.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

It was really a brilliant strategic maneuver by Russell and one of the reasons we brought him back so often.

From Time • Oct. 9, 2013

The sac bunt, though in most situations just as dumb a strategic maneuver, has more credibility and stature—the word sacrifice makes it sound dignified, even noble.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2011

Kutuzov's merit lay, not in any strategic maneuver of genius, as it is called, but in the fact that he alone understood the significance of what had happened.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf