The Secret Service isn’t up to the job. It’s time to give them help from the military.

The security breach at the White House last week unfortunately proved that the Secret Service is in over its head protecting the White House. Fence jumping by one person, while a concern, isn’t a major issue in itself. That has been accomplished many times over the history of the White House, usually with benign results. But this time was different. Not only because the fence jumper actually made it into the executive mansion — but because the United States is at war.

Since the end of World War II, the protection of the White House has primarily been the autonomous duty of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division. It is a police force tasked with patrolling and securing foreign embassies as well as the interior and exterior of the White House. They are among the best police officers in the world, but their numbers are too few and their rules of engagement too passive to adequately protect the White House grounds.

Allowing a fence jumper to enter the White House unimpeded sends a dangerous message to all of our enemies: The Secret Service — either due to insufficient numbers of officers or a lack of decisiveness – does not kill people who force their way into the White House. This message undoubtedly will embolden our enemies, and that’s a serious problem at a time when terrorist groups are planning major attacks on Western soil and coming alarmingly close to carrying them out. Unable to deter even one lightly armed, demented individual from breaching White House defenses and entering the state floor through the front door, the Uniformed Division has proved it isn’t prepared to hold back a coordinated attack on the White House by multiple invaders. They are a law enforcement organization, not a combat unit, and this is war.

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