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Dvorak 9 Jan 8:33pm, 9 Jan 2025 28,426 posts	0 Dvorak I reckon not having troops in the territory of a non-existent country rather counts as a non-invasion. And afaik there were British military actions in Norway during WW II, but incursions into a territory under hostile occupation does not to me fit any reasonable standard of "invasion".
GlennR 9 Jan 8:51pm, 9 Jan 2025 77,166 posts	0 GlennR In mid-1939 the US armed forces were smaller than Portugal's.
NordRunner 9 Jan 9:03pm, 9 Jan 2025 4,901 posts	0 NordRunner Britain has indeed invaded Norway, during World War II. You could call it a counter-invasion but I believe this is still an invasion—of a kind designed to counter another invasion. In April 1940, as part of the Norwegian Campaign, British forces landed at Narvik, Namsos, and Åndalsnes to counter Germany’s invasion and secure strategic locations like Narvik’s iron ore port. However, the campaign ended with British forces withdrawing by June 1940 due to German advances in France and logistical challenges in Norway.
Cerrertonia 9 Jan 9:15pm, 9 Jan 2025 22,603 posts	0 Cerrertonia British troops fought in Finland during the Crimean War. Might not call it an invasion, but we still burned a load of shops and warehouses and people on both sides were killed, including Finnish locals.
Cerrertonia 9 Jan 9:17pm, 9 Jan 2025 22,604 posts	0 Cerrertonia And we did actually declare war on Finland in 1941 after they signed an alliance with Germany (and on Hungary & Romania on the same day). We bombed and sank some Finnish ships in their home ports.
Cerrertonia 9 Jan 9:28pm, 9 Jan 2025 22,605 posts	0 Cerrertonia I speculate that we might have had troops in what is now Kazakhstan during the Crimean war too. What is interesting is that in the 1840s small British forces attacked the Khanate of Kokand and its neighbour Bukhara. These places are now in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan and yet Uzbekistan is on the list of places we haven't invaded. Some of the other uninvaded places on the list have also had British troops present. Mali had British troops as part of UN peacekeeping forces from 2020 to 2022 for example.
Jason1969 9 Jan 9:44pm, 9 Jan 2025 13,391 posts	0 Jason1969 I wonder what would constitute an invasion in 2025? I'm very keen to complete the set, rather like filling a football sticker album or getting a parkrun alphabet.