The Sunmaker's Gambit

Dalinar's name for the plan he forms at the rooftop confrontation with Taravangian: rather than fight Odium-as-Retribution head to head and unmake Roshar in the process, surrender the field to him so completely that he becomes the entire cosmere's problem — drawing the attention of the other Shards onto Odium at the moment he has nowhere left to hide. The name is a wry borrowing of an old Alethi conqueror's tag for trading a battle to win a war. SA:WaT:Ch 143