Holy war may refer to:
- A religious war led with an exceptionally high grade of religious feeling
- The Crusades, 11th, 12th, and 13th-century religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Christian Europe against Muslim Persia and Middle East.
- The Herem referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
- Reconquista
- Seisen, the name given by Showa era propaganda to the Second Sino-Japanese War, based on the slogan hakko ichiu.
- Taiping Rebellion
- Spread of Islam
- Jewish–Roman wars
- Arab-Israeli Wars (disambiguation)
- Way of the Celestial Masters
- Five Pecks of Rice Rebellion
- Jihad (generally translated into English as "Holy War"), in Islam
- Wars of Religion (France)
- European wars of religion
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“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“Tanks. In any normal war they’re a beautiful sight, on your side.”
—Richard Blake, and William Cameron Menzies. Col. Fielding (Millburn Stone)