Wiktionary
n. (context military English) A military action launched by land, using ground troops.
Usage examples of "ground offensive".
During the coalition ground offensive, Saddam suddenly realized that his army would not be able to stop the American-led forces.
Brigadier General Kiel has designated me as the commander of the ground offensive part of this operation, but the term is not accurate.
But when the Tarakan ground offensive finally came, it swept over a ruined cityscape under soot-blackened skies riven by the occasional solid bars of fire that were orbit-to-surface kinetic-kill weapons descending whenever one side or the other was in a position to launch one and thought it could achieve a targeting solution in the electronic chaos below.
If the cream of the Iraqi Army came out of their bunkers haggard and with arms raised during the Coalition ground offensive, it was in part because their nerves had been shattered and their morale broken by around-the-clock pounding from B-52s.
I anticipate a ground offensive to accomplish this, and the moon must not be destroyed in the process.