List of wars involving Finland
This list only includes conflicts where Finnish forces took part in actual combat. The combat in Finland from 1939 through 1945 is considered part of the Second World War.
Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 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 |
White Senate victory
|
(Reds and Whites) | ||
Heimosodat (1918-1922) |
Finnish volunteers Estonia East Karelia North Ingria |
Russian SFSR Murmansk Legion |
Defeat (except in Estonia)[2] | |||
Winter War (1939–1940)[a] |
Finland | Soviet Union | Defeat (but survival as an independent state)[3] | |||
Continuation War (1941–1944)[b] |
Finland Germany |
Soviet Union | Defeat (but survival as an independent state)[5] | |||
Lapland War (1944–1945)[c] |
Finland | Germany | Victory
|
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War in Afghanistan (2009–) |
Afghanistan |
Taliban | Ongoing |
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
- ^ Finnish volunteers oftentimes left the Finnish Defence Forces to avoid making Finland an official combatant in the wars.
- ^ 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.