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
  • Russian military presence ceased
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
C. G. E. Mannerheim
~30,000[1]
(Reds and Whites)
Heimosodat
(1918-1922)		 Finnish volunteers
 Estonia
East Karelia
North Ingria		  Russian SFSR
United Kingdom Murmansk Legion		 Defeat (except in Estonia)[2]
K. J. Ståhlberg
Karl Fredrik Wilkama
~550
Winter War
(1939–1940)[lower-alpha 1]		  Finland  Soviet Union Defeat (but survival as an independent state)[3]
Kyösti Kallio
C. G. E. Mannerheim
25,904[4]
Continuation War
(1941–1944)[lower-alpha 2]		  Finland
 Germany		  Soviet Union Defeat (but survival as an independent state)[5]
Risto Ryti
63,204[6]
Lapland War
(1944–1945)[lower-alpha 3]		  Finland  Germany Victory
  • German retreat from Finnish territory
C. G. E. Mannerheim
1,036[7]
War in Afghanistan
(2009–)		  Afghanistan
 Afghanistan Taliban Ongoing
Tarja Halonen
Juhani Kaskeala
2[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Archive
  2. ↑ Finnish volunteers oftentimes left the Finnish Defence Forces to avoid making Finland an official combatant in the wars.
  3. ↑ Wasserstein, Bernard (2007). Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time. Oxford University Press. p. 125. ISBN 9780191622519.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Mouritzen, Hans (1997). External Danger and Democracy: Old Nordic Lessons and New European Challenges. Dartmouth. p. 35. ISBN 1-85521-885-2.
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ Ahto 1980, p. 296.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "OEF: Afghanistan: Fatalities By Year". icasualties.org. 9 September 2005. Retrieved 14 September 2013.

Notes

  1. ↑ Part of the Second World War
  2. ↑ Part of the Second World War
  3. ↑ Part of the Second World War
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