If you ever need an example of God thoroughly being against an offensive war, here's some fairly explicit direction (3 Nephi 3):
The Lord forbid; for if we should go up against them the Lord would deliver us into their hands; therefore we will prepare ourselves in the center of our lands, and we will gather all our armies together, and we will not go against them, but we will wait till they shall come against us; therefore as the Lord liveth, if we do this he will deliver them into our hands.
God obviously doesn;t condone us going out and picking fights - that would lead to the Lord delivering us into their hands. However, if we gather together and defend ourselves against the attacking enemy, we will have the Lord on our side.
The crusades were clearly not God sent...
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