This is a list of wars involving Finland since its declaration of independence on 6 December 1917.
List
editConflict | Party 1 | Party 2 | Result | Finnish leaders | Finnish losses (dead or missing) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Head of State | Chief of Defence | |||||
Finnish Civil War (1918) |
White Guard Germany Sweden |
Red Guards Russian SFSR |
Government victory
|
~30,000[1]
(Reds and Whites) | ||
Heimosodat (1918–1922) |
White Guard Estonia East Karelia North Ingria |
Russian SFSR Murmansk Legion |
Treaty of Tartu | ~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
editReferences
editCitations
edit- ^ 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
edit- 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.