List of wars involving Finland
This is a list of wars involving independent Finland. This list only includes conflicts where Finnish forces took part in actual combat, thus excluding peacekeeping operations.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result | Finnish leaders | Finnish losses | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
President | Chief of Defence | |||||
Finnish Civil War (1918) |
White Guard German Empire |
Red Guard Russian SFSR |
White Senate victory
|
(Reds and Whites) | ||
Heimosodat
(1918-1922) |
White Guard | Russian SFSR Red Guards (Finns) Karelian Regiment |
Failure | |||
Winter War (1939–1940) |
Finland | Soviet Union | Defeat[2] (but survival as an independent state) | |||
Continuation War (1941–1944) |
Finland Nazi Germany |
Soviet Union Great Britain |
Defeat[4] (but survival as an independent state) | |||
Lapland War (1944–1945) |
Finland | Nazi Germany | Victory
|
|||
War in Afghanistan (2009–) |
Afghanistan |
Taliban | Ongoing |
For the wars during the Russian rule (1809–1917), see French invasion of Russia (1812), November Uprising (war in Poland in 1830), Russo-Turkish War (several), Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and World War I (1914–17). For the list of wars during the Swedish rule (1249–1809), see List of Swedish wars. For information on conflicts related to Finland prior to Swedish rule, see Early Finnish wars.
See also
- Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland
- Military history of Finland
- List of Finnish treaties
- Early Finnish wars
- History of Finland
- List of Swedish wars
- Finland Guard Regiment
References
- ^ National Archive
- ^ Wasserstein, Bernard (2007). Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time. Oxford University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780191622519.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Mouritzen, Hans (1997). External Danger and Democracy: Old Nordic Lessons and New European Challenges. Dartmouth. p. 35. ISBN 1-85521-885-2.
- ^ 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
- ^ Ahto 1980, p. 296.
- ^ Knefel, John (7 January 2015). "Drone Rules in Afghanistan Go Unchanged, And Other Reasons the War Isn't Really Over". Rolling Stones. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ "OEF: Afghanistan: Fatalities By Year". icasualties.org. 9 September 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2013.