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) | |
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Head of State | Chief of Defence | |||||
Finnish Civil War (1918) |
White Senate victory
|
(Reds and Whites) | ||||
Heimosodat (1918–1922) |
Defeat (except in Estonia)[2] | |||||
Mäntsälä rebellion (1932) |
Government Victory
|
1 suicide, 52 imprisoned (Lapua movement) | ||||
Winter War (1939–1940) Part of the Second World War |
Defeat [3] | |||||
Continuation War (1941–1944) Part of the Second World War |
Defeat [5] | |||||
Lapland War (1944–1945) Part of the Second World War |
Victory
|
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War in Afghanistan (2009–present) |
Ongoing | Sauli Niinistö |
Ari Puheloinen Jarmo Lindberg |
See also
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.
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