The phrase "a general offensive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military actions, strategies, or broader metaphorical uses in discussions about campaigns or initiatives.
Example: "The army launched a general offensive to reclaim the territory lost in the previous conflict."
Alternatives: "a broad attack" or "a widespread campaign".
It was a general offensive, even if none had been formally declared.
MEMPHIS — The game was drifting away from the Knicks, lost in a haze of errant passes, ill-conceived jump shots and a general offensive malaise long before they watched their scoring leader stumble away in agony.
Ludendorff's plan of a general offensive against Russia by means of a temporary reduction of the German forces in the west did not receive approval by the supreme army command in the summer of 1915.
On March 21 , 1918 Ludendorff opened a general offensive on the Western Front with the object of smashing the Anglo-French armies and forcing a decision in Europe before the Americans arrived in force.
On September 4 Joffre, convinced by Gallieni's arguments, decisively ordered his whole left wing to turn about from their retreat and to begin a general offensive against the Germans' exposed right flank on September 6.
In mid-November all six Allied armies on the Western Front had launched a general offensive; but, though the French 1st Army and the U.S. 7th had reached the Rhine River in Alsace, there were only small gains on other sectors of the front.
They adopted the principle of a simultaneous general offensive in 1916 by France, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy.
Thus, on 16 December, in preparation for a planned general offensive to try to destroy all Japanese forces remaining on Guadalcanal, Patch elected to first secure the Mount Austen area.
The Reds carried out an unsuccessful general offensive in February 1918, the Russian Soviet Republic supplied them with weapons.
The General Offensive, General Uprising would then commence with simultaneous actions on major allied bases and most urban areas, and with particular emphasis on the cities of Saigon and Huế.
Former National Security Adviser J.N. Dixit believed that Nehru made a grievous error of judgment in ordering an all-out general offensive when it should have been selective, gradual and area-specific.
