The authoritative unclassified U.S. government assessments of Russian military power — the DIA's standalone volume plus the recurring missile-threat and Congressional Research Service reports.
Unlike China, Russia has no single congressionally-mandated annual report on its military power — there’s nothing that runs year after year the way the China Military Power Report does. What exists instead is one authoritative standalone assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, backed by a set of recurring reports that are updated as events move. I’ve gathered the best of both here — the anchor document archived on our own servers, and the living reports linked at their official sources.
The Defense Intelligence Agency’s Russia Military Power is the closest thing to a definitive, unclassified U.S. read on the Russian armed forces. It consciously revived the spirit of the DIA’s Cold-War Soviet Military Power series — but as a single 2017 edition, never updated into an annual run. It’s still the best one-volume overview of Russian doctrine, forces, and modernization.
These are updated over time, so rather than freeze a single copy, they’re linked at their official homes (they’ll open in a new tab).
Missile forces
Nuclear security
Congressional Research Service — continuously updated background for Congress; the stable landing pages always serve the current edition:
A note on the sources: the DIA report is a fixed historical document, so it’s archived here in full. The missile, nuclear-security, and CRS reports change as the situation does — those stay linked to their official publishers so you always get the current version.
