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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	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[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

• 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

• 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.