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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)
Conflict	Party 1	Party 2	Result	Head of State	Chief of Defence	Finnish losses (dead or missing)
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^[1] (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^[2]
Continuation War (1941–1944) Part of the Second World War	Finland Germany	Soviet Union	Defeat ^[3] Moscow Armistice, Lapland War	Risto Ryti		63,204^[4]
Lapland War (1944–1945) Part of the Second World War	Finland	Germany	Victory German retreat from Finnish territory	C. G. E. Mannerheim		1,036^[5]
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^[6]
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

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.