List of wars involving Latvia

This is a list of wars that the Republic of Latvia have participated in.

The Republic of Latvia existed as a de jure sovereign state from 17 June 1940 to 4 May 1990, and was represented by the Latvian Diplomatic Service dealing with a limited part of the state functions of the Republic of Latvia. The Republic of Latvia did not engage in warfare during the period of occupation.

  Victory

  Defeat

  Another result*

  Ongoing

*e.g. result unknown or indecisive/inconclusive, result of internal conflict inside Latvia, status quo ante bellum, or a treaty or peace without a clear result.

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Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Combatant 3	Result
1918–1920	Latvian War of Independence	Republic of Latvia Republic of Estonia Second Polish Republic Baltische Landeswehr (allied to Latvia, except in April–July 1919)	Russian SFSR Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic	West Russian Volunteer Army	Victory Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty Independence of Republic of Latvia Latgale integrated into Republic of Latvia Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic dissolved Death of 3,046 Latvians
1919–1921	Polish–Soviet War	Poland Ukraine (1920) Belarus (1920) Latvia (1920)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR Byelorussian SSR Polrewkom		Polish victory Peace of Riga Independence of Poland Ukraine and Belarus merged into Soviet Union
1939–1945	World War II Occupation of the Baltic states	Republic of Latvia (1940)	Soviet Union Latvian SSR	Nazi Germany Reichskommissariat Ostland (1941–44)	Nazi German defeat; Soviet victory Soviet occupation (1940) German occupation (1941) Soviet re-occupation (1944)
1945–1956	Guerrilla war in the Baltic states	Estonian partisans Latvian partisans Lithuanian partisans	Soviet Union		Soviet victory Defeat of the partisans
1991	The Barricades (part of the Singing Revolution)	Latvia	Soviet Union		Victory Dissolution of Riga OMON Eventual independence of Latvia on 21 August 1991
2001–2021	War on terror	United States of America United Kingdom Poland Latvia other allies	Al-Qaeda various allies		Mixed results
2012-	Central African Republic Civil War	Central African Republic Central African Armed Forces MINUSCA (since 2014) Rwanda Russia Wagner Group South Africa (2013) MISCA (2013–2014) EUFOR RCA Latvia	Coalition of Patriots for Change Anti-balaka MPC		Ongoing

See also

• List of wars involving Estonia
• List of wars involving Lithuania
• List of wars involving Poland