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This is a list of wars involving Finland since its declaration of independence on 6 December 1917.

List

Conflict	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 Uprising suppressed	Pehr Evind Svinhufvud	C. G. E. Mannerheim	~30,000 (Reds and Whites)
Heimosodat (1918–1922)	White Guard  Estonia East Karelia North Ingria	Russian SFSR Murmansk Legion	Treaty of Tartu	K. J. Ståhlberg	Karl Fredrik Wilkama	~550
Winter War (1939–1940) Part of the Second World War	Finland	Soviet Union	Moscow Peace Treaty	Kyösti Kallio	C. G. E. Mannerheim	25,904
Continuation War (1941–1944) Part of the Second World War	Finland  Germany	Soviet Union	Defeat Moscow Armistice, Lapland War	Risto Ryti		63,204
Lapland War (1944–1945) Part of the Second World War	Finland	Germany	Victory German retreat from Finnish territory	C. G. E. Mannerheim		1,036
War in Afghanistan (2009–2021)	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	Defeat Taliban retakes Afghanistan	Tarja Halonen Sauli Niinistö	Juhani Kaskeala Ari Puheloinen Jarmo Lindberg	2
War in Iraq (2014–2017)	Iraq CJTF–OIR	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant	Victory Iraqi and allied victory against ISIL	Sauli Niinistö	Jarmo Lindberg	None

See also

• Military of the Grand Duchy of Finland
• Military history of Finland
• List of Finnish treaties
• Finland Guard Regiment

References

Citations

1. National Archive
2. 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.
3. Mouritzen, Hans (1997). External Danger and Democracy: Old Nordic Lessons and New European Challenges. Dartmouth. p. 35. ISBN 1-85521-885-2.
4. 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
5. Ahto 1980, p. 296.
6. "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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