"offensive information" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to any type of information that is insulting, disrespectful, or hurtful to someone or a group of people. Example: The CEO of the company was fired after a video emerged of him making offensive comments about women during a conference.
But being unpopular is not a crime and publishing offensive information is not either".
But the president, as commander in chief, does have some authority to conduct offensive information warfare against foreign adversaries.
Referring to the work of the military cyberwar force, he said, "The fact that our own government has offensive information programs that it won't talk about except to acknowledge that they exist -- that should tell us something".
Whether it's true or not, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, the United States is now in the business of offensive information warfare, along with China, Israel and Russia, among others.
Pity the nation that applauds this as progress — Jahanzaib Haque (@jhaque_) 17 Sep 12 Ali Dayan of Human Rights Watch wrote: Responding to abusive or offensive information by banning access to information amounts to cutting your nose to spite your face.
Therefore, before our courts are forced to consider the issue and potentially limit executive powers, as they did after President Harry Truman tried to seize steel plants in the early 1950s, Congress should grant the White House broad authority to wage offensive information warfare.
Scientists and researchers convened by the National Academy of Sciences this year heard testimony from military strategy experts indicating that both China and Russia have offensive information-warfare programs.
It says its spyware offers "world-class offensive techniques for information gathering".
What's more, offensive and defensive information warfare are tightly, insidiously coupled, which will significantly complicate military-industrial relations.
The Hebrew word is hasbara, which literally means "explanation," but carries the connotation here of something like "information offensive".
If Mr. Bush orders an attack against Iraq, the information offensive will expand to a fierce but invisible war of electrons.
