Obama's civilian national security force

I’m not sure what to make of this. On July 2, 2008, it appears that Barack Obama was at the University of Colorado delivering a speech, issuing a call to service. Rocky Mountain News carried the story and transcript, and the video of the speech ended up on at this location on youtube. About 16 minutes and 50 seconds into the speech, Obama says:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

These comments don’t appear on the transcripts and a finding a record of the speech is hit and miss, although I did find it on a Wall Street Journal posting. It’s like he was there, then he wasn’t, then he said it, then he didn’t. Something just doesn’t smell right. I have no reason to believe it didn’t happen. I just wish I could find wide spread reporting on the event.

In any case, the question is, what does he mean? In context, I could take it to mean that a strong, well funded force of volunteers in agencies like AmeriCorp, Peace Corp, and diplomatic corp will move to strengthen our reputation in the world. But that’s a stretch.

What if he means exactly what he said? What if he wants a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded as the strongest military force in the world? What would this group do? Who would they be responsible to? How would they perform their duties? What about the FBI, DEA, ICE, IRS, Secret Service, National Guard, state police, and local policing agencies? Do those not count? My mind instantly thinks of Hitler’s brown shirts. Obama needs to either refute this incident or explain himself in more detail because the connotation suggested by this is disturbing.