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.

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 Murmansk Legion	Defeat (except in Estonia)[2] Treaty of Tartu	K. J. Ståhlberg	Karl Fredrik Wilkama	~550
Mäntsälä rebellion (1932)	Finnish Government	Lapua movement	Government Victory Finnish democracy prevails; the Lapua movement is disbanded	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud	Aarne Sihvo	1 suicide, 52 imprisoned (Lapua movement)
Winter War (1939–1940) Part of the Second World War	Finland	Soviet Union	Defeat [3] Moscow Peace Treaty	Kyösti Kallio	C. G. E. Mannerheim	25,904[4]
Continuation War (1941–1944) Part of the Second World War	Finland  Germany	Soviet Union	Defeat [5] Moscow Armistice, Lapland War	Risto Ryti		63,204[6]
Lapland War (1944–1945) Part of the Second World War	Finland	Germany	Victory German retreat from Finnish territory	C. G. E. Mannerheim		1,036[7]
War in Afghanistan (2009–present)	Afghanistan ISAF United States  United Kingdom  Australia  Canada  Germany  France  Italy  Czech Republic  Netherlands  Turkey  Romania  Georgia  South Korea  Poland  Denmark  Sweden  Norway  Finland  Singapore  New Zealand  Mongolia  Bulgaria  Hungary  Belgium  Estonia  Latvia  Lithuania  Portugal  Albania  Slovenia	Taliban	Ongoing Continuation of war[8]	Tarja Halonen Sauli Niinistö	Juhani Kaskeala Ari Puheloinen Jarmo Lindberg	2[9]

This article is about wars involving independent Finland. For wars during the Russian rule (1809–1917), see list of wars involving Russia. For wars during the Swedish rule (1249–1809), see list of wars involving Sweden. For wars 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

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. sfn error: no target: CITEREFAhto1980 (help)
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.