List of wars involving Finland
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) | |
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Head of State | Chief of Defence | |||||
Finnish Civil War (1918) | White Guard Germany Sweden | Red Guards Russian SFSR | Government victory
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ~30,000[1] (Reds and Whites) | |
Heimosodat (1918–1922) | White Guard Estonia East Karelia North Ingria | Russian SFSR Murmansk Legion | Treaty of Tartu | Karl Fredrik Wilkama | ~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
| 1,036[5] | ||
War in Afghanistan (2009–2021) | Afghanistan | Taliban | Defeat
| 2[6] | ||
War in Iraq (2014–2017) | Iraq CJTF–OIR | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | Victory
| None |
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
Citations
- ^ National Archive
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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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