This list only includes conflicts where Finnish forces took part in actual combat. 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) |
|---|
| Head of State | Chief of Defence |
|---|
Finnish Civil War
(1918) | White Guard
{{Country|German Empire|size=23px|name=Germany}} | Red Guard
{{Country|Russian SFSR|1918|size=23px}} | White Senate victory- Russian military presence ceased
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | C. G. E. Mannerheim | ~30,000[1]
(Reds and Whites) |
Heimosodat
(1918-1922) | Finnish volunteers
{{Country|Estonia|size=23px}}
East Karelia
North Ingria | {{Country|Russian SFSR|1918|size=23px}}
{{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Murmansk Legion | Defeat (except in Estonia)[2] | K. J. Ståhlberg | Karl Fredrik Wilkama | ~550 |
Winter War
(1939–1940){{efn|Part of the Second World War}} | {{Country|Finland|size=23px}} | {{Country|Soviet Union|size=23px}} | Defeat (but survival as an independent state)[3] | Kyösti Kallio | C. G. E. Mannerheim | 25,904{{refn|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.}} |
Continuation War
(1941–1944){{efn|Part of the Second World War}} | {{Country|Finland|size=23px}}
{{Country|Nazi Germany|size=23px|name=Germany}} | {{Country|Soviet Union|size=23px}} | Defeat (but survival as an independent state)[4]- Moscow Armistice, Lapland War
| Risto Ryti | 63,204{{refn|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}} |
Lapland War
(1944–1945){{efn|Part of the Second World War}} | {{Country|Finland|size=23px}} | {{Country|Nazi Germany|size=23px|name=Germany}} | Victory- German retreat from Finnish territory
| C. G. E. Mannerheim | 1,036{{sfn|Ahto|1980|p=296}} |
War in Afghanistan
(2009–) | {{flag|Afghanistan|size=23px}}
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Sauli Niinistö | Juhani Kaskeala
Ari Puheloinen
Jarmo Lindberg | 2[6] |
1. ^National Archive
2. ^Finnish volunteers oftentimes left the Finnish Defence Forces to avoid making Finland an official combatant in the wars.
3. ^{{cite book|last=Wasserstein|first=Bernard|authorlink=Bernard Wasserstein|title=Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time|url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XicFgasYzWQC&pg=PT125|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780191622519|page=125}}
4. ^{{cite book|last=Mouritzen|first= Hans|title=External Danger and Democracy: Old Nordic Lessons and New European Challenges|year= 1997|publisher=Dartmouth|isbn=1-85521-885-2|pages=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?cd=4&id=O7COAAAAMAAJ&q=soviet+victory#search_anchor}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/drone-rules-in-afghanistan-go-unchanged-and-other-reasons-the-war-isnt-really-over-20150107 |title=Drone Rules in Afghanistan Go Unchanged, And Other Reasons the War Isn't Really Over |last=Knefel |first=John |date=7 January 2015 |website=Rolling Stones |publisher= |accessdate=6 February 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web |url=http://icasualties.org/OEF/ByYear.aspx|title=OEF: Afghanistan: Fatalities By Year|work=icasualties.org|date=9 September 2005|accessdate=14 September 2013}}