List of wars involving Finland

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This article is about wars involving independent Finland. For wars during the Russian rule (1809–1917), see list of wars involving Russia. For wars during the Swedish rule (1249–1809), see list of wars involving Sweden. For wars prior to Swedish rule, see early Finnish wars.

This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Finland. The combat in Finland from 1939 through 1945 is considered part of the Second World War.

List[]

Conflict Party 1 Party 2 Result Finnish leaders Finnish losses
(dead or missing)
Head of State Chief of Defence
Finnish Civil War
(1918) 		Flag of Finland 1918 (state).svg White Guard
 Germany 		Red flag.svg Red Guard
 Russian SFSR 		Government Victory
  • Uprising suppressed
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
C. G. E. Mannerheim
~30,000[1]
(Reds and Whites)
Heimosodat
(1918–1922) 		Flag of Finland 1918 (state).svg White Guard
 Estonia
KarelianNationalFlag.svg East Karelia
Ingrian people.svg North Ingria 		 Russian SFSR
United Kingdom Murmansk Legion 		Treaty of Tartu
K. J. Ståhlberg
Karl Fredrik Wilkama
~550
Winter War
(1939–1940)
Part of the Second World War 		 Finland  Soviet Union Moscow Peace Treaty
Kyösti Kallio
C. G. E. Mannerheim
25,904[2]
Continuation War
(1941–1944)
Part of the Second World War 		 Finland
 Germany 		 Soviet Union Defeat [3]
Risto Ryti
63,204[4]
Lapland War
(1944–1945)
Part of the Second World War 		 Finland  Germany Victory
  • German retreat from Finnish territory
C. G. E. Mannerheim
1,036[5]
War in Afghanistan
(2009–2021) 		 Afghanistan
 Afghanistan Taliban Defeat
  • Taliban retakes Afghanistan
Tarja Halonen
Sauli Niinistö
Juhani Kaskeala
Ari Puheloinen
Jarmo Lindberg
2[6]
War in Iraq
(2014–2017) 		 Iraq
CJTF–OIR 		Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Victory
  • Iraqi and allied victory against ISIL
Sauli Niinistö
Jarmo Lindberg
None

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ National Archive
  2. ^ Finnish detailed death casualties: Dead, buried 16,766; Wounded, died of wounds 3,089; Dead, not buried, later declared as dead 3,503; Missing, declared as dead 1,712; Died as a prisoner of war 20; Other reasons (diseases, accidents, suicides) 677; Unknown 137.
  3. ^ Mouritzen, Hans (1997). External Danger and Democracy: Old Nordic Lessons and New European Challenges. Dartmouth. p. 35. ISBN 1-85521-885-2.
  4. ^ Finnish detailed death casualties: Dead, buried 33,565; Wounded, died of wounds 12,820; Dead, not buried later declared as dead 4,251; Missing, declared as dead 3,552; Died as prisoners of war 473; Other reasons (diseases, accidents, suicides) 7,932; Unknown 611
  5. ^ Ahto 1980, p. 296.
  6. ^ "OEF: Afghanistan: Fatalities By Year". icasualties.org. 9 September 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
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