Back in 2008 right before he got elected for the 1st time as the president of the United States Barack Obama said that we can't just rely on the US military for threats here in the country he said that we needed a civilian military force just as powerful and funded. What did he mean by that? The US Military can not come after the American people for anything. The IRS can. Why do you think they need 87000 IRS agents heavily armed?