The phrase "an offensive tactic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing strategies or methods that are considered aggressive or disrespectful in a particular context, such as sports, military, or competitive situations.
Example: "The team's use of an offensive tactic during the game drew criticism from fans and commentators alike."
Alternatives: "a hostile approach" or "an aggressive strategy."
Chinese hacking capabilities are particularly worrisome because U.S. officials fear that Beijing could use them as an offensive tactic.
She seems determined to catalog her own flaws and foibles — an offensive tactic, she admits, against critics who would gladly pile on.
The use of a substitute as an offensive tactic most commonly involves sending in a pinch hitter that is, taking a hitter out of the lineup and substituting another player whose likelihood for driving the ball for a hit or a fly to the deep outfield is greater.
While there has been much research on marketing as an offensive tactic, there has been remarkably little on how strong incumbents can use marketing to preemptively respond to new or anticipated threats, whether they arise because of deregulation, patent expiration, changing technology, or rivals' shifting competitive advantage.
My defenses kicked in, and I responded to the threat with an offensive tactic: meet missile with missile.
Devastation by fire was not only used as an offensive tactic; some countries and armies employed 'scorched earth' policies on their own land to deprive invading armies of all food and forage.
There has been a lot of research on marketing as an offensive tactic--how it can help companies successfully launch new products, enter new markets, or gain share with existing products in their current markets.
(A backwash squeeze, by the way, is an obscure offensive tactic whereby a player, facing a certain arrangement of cards, forces an opponent to make a certain kind of self-defeating discard).
Whenever her team was deep in its attacking end, Rachel was able to fling the ball all the way into the goal area — a potent offensive tactic made possible by the extreme flexibility of her spine.
These very same fossil-fuel interests have deployed an even more offensive tactic in their deceptive campaign: using people of color as a political prop against renewable energy.
Over the space of only two weeks, we've seen Palmer deploy an array of offensive tactics in an attempt to bring his rogue senator into line.
