[JGarcia]

If armed terrorists are on US soil, I think it could be qualified as a military strike on US soil. That being the case, the DOD is the owner of those targets. I wouldnt even imagine that posse comitatus applies. You wouldnt roll out the local SWAT team when BMP's are rolling down the street. If billy bob has a knife on his mamas throat, while his kids watch, thats a job for swat. If 3 guys hold up in a school with machine guns and explosives, that should be a military target.

But without a doubt, when you have what you had in Russia, combatants with RPG's, machine guns, and explosives, there is no room in that for police, except for perimeter security to keep civilians away.

For a long time the police in the US have had aspirations of being more like the military, and as TS metioned earlier, without success. Wearing a Kpot and weilding an M4 does not an operator make.

I read a book a few years back, I think it was called "Killology" by a LTC. So and So. He described police as Sheep Dogs, and the military as Wolves.