Praying for victory in war should be anathema to Christians. Can you imagine Jesus taking sides as two groups of Christians kill each other? In a battle between Christians and Non-Christians, does praying to a God that sent his son/incarnation to a tortuous public execution and promised nothing but the same to his followers make any sense. Would not that god sacrifice his believers to allow the non believers more time to repent and escape eternal damnation? Christ will lead an army to victory but it will be obvious when he does.
If you must pray for victory, there are gods waiting to hear you. Odin, Zeus,Marduk,Kali,Tezcatlipoca, or Allah will find your war a pleasing offering.
Yes is goes without saying that The Crusades were the work of a more temporal force. Witness 100 years after they start the crusaders move from freeing Jerusalem with a massacre to the sacking of Constantinople guaranteeing continued Christian disunity.
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