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>>417
It is indeed the quoting と. I don't have a good way of explaining this, but it's quoting the whole chunk 初撃の後の陽動のために. You could translate it as "preparing for 初撃の後の陽動/ in order to deal with 初撃の後の陽動/ thinking of 初撃の後の陽動".

The sentence works without と (i.e., 初撃の後の陽動のために用意した慧による『姫』の誘拐作戦) but then it really just looks like one big noun phrase and feels a bit rushed.