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)		 White Guard
 Germany		 Red Guard
 Russian SFSR		 Government Victory
  • Uprising suppressed
~30,000[1]
(Reds and Whites)
Heimosodat
(1918–1922)		 White Guard
 Estonia
East Karelia
North Ingria		  Russian SFSR
United Kingdom Murmansk Legion		 Treaty of Tartu
~550
Winter War
(1939–1940)
Part of the Second World War		  Finland  Soviet Union Moscow Peace Treaty
25,904[2]
Continuation War
(1941–1944)
Part of the Second World War		  Finland
 Germany		  Soviet Union Defeat [3]
63,204[4]
Lapland War
(1944–1945)
Part of the Second World War		  Finland  Germany Victory
  • German retreat from Finnish territory
1,036[5]
War in Afghanistan
(2009–2021)		  Afghanistan
 Afghanistan Taliban Defeat
  • Taliban retakes Afghanistan
2[6]
War in Iraq
(2014–2017)		  Iraq
CJTF–OIR		 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Victory
  • Iraqi and allied victory against ISIL
None

See also

References

Citations

  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.

Bibliography

  • Ahto, Sampo (1980). Aseveljet vastakkain – Lapin sota 1944–1945 [Brothers in Arms Opposing Each Other – Lapland War 1944–1945] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä. ISBN 978-951-26-1726-5.
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