strategic maneuvers
Planned competitive actions
Strategic maneuvers are calculated movements or actions designed to gain advantage over an opponent or achieve a specific goal.
The phrase appears most often in military contexts, where it describes the positioning of forces to outflank or outmaneuver an enemy, but it extends readily to business, politics, and personal relationships.
The company's strategic maneuvers included acquiring smaller competitors before they could gain market share.
The plural form emphasizes a series of coordinated actions rather than a single decisive move.
- mergersCorporate consolidations
- hostile takeoverUnwanted corporate buyout attempt
- flankingAt the sides of
- acquisitionsThings newly gained
- diplomacyNegotiation between nations
ambush · encirclement · persuasion · feint · bait and switch · counterattack · divide and conquer · sanctions · siege · treaties · diversion · smoke and mirrors · blitzkrieg · lobbying · mirroring · reconnaissance · conditioning · calculated risk
- military tacticstactics, flanking, ambush, battle formations, encirclement
strategic maneuversinaction
Deliberate nonmovement
drift · going with the flow · complacency · resignation · capitulation
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