A look at Russian Military Power in 2017 according to the Defense Intelligence Agency and other sources. This also includes a short historical overview from 1991 to 2017. NOTE: Non-conventional weapons were excluded due to YouTube’s tendency to remove ads on such videos. See my Video on the US considering using atomic bombs to support a landing in Japan 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIY1-TYirIw »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » paypal donation - https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TFHEY4P4YU3NY »» MERCHANDISE - SPOILS OF WAR «« » shop - https://www.redbubble.com/people/mhvis/shop »» SOCIAL MEDIA «« » minds.com - https://www.minds.com/militaryhistoryvisualized » facebook - https://www.facebook.com/milhistoryvisualized/ » twitter - https://twitter.com/MilHiVisualized » twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/militaryhistoryvisualized » SOURCES « Defense Intelligence Agency: Russia Military Power – Building a Military to Support Great Power Aspirations - 2017 Sutyagin, Igor: Detailing Russian Forces in Syria, in: RUSI Defence Systems, 13 November 2015 https://rusi.org/publication/rusi-defence-systems/detailing-russian-forces-syria Sutyagin, Igor: Russia’s Military Reform: Why the Kremlin Needs the West Hill, Alexander: The Red Army and the Second World War U.S. Department of Defense: Military Forces in Transition, September 1991 Lindley-French, Julian: NATO: Countering Strategic Maskirovka. Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute. (2015) Smith, Charles L.: Soviet Maskirovko, in: Airpower Journal - Spring 1988 http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj88/spr88/smith.html