MANEUVERS

The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.

"Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics."

Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.

A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.

To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.

To guide, steer, manage purposefully

To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme

"The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts"