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If you are the subject of a committed unannounced "raid" and you're unaware that you've been specifically targeted for such action, it'll be over before you can become fully awake from your sweet dreams. Because they will execute a "no-knock" warrant at about 0300HRS and will kill the dog or dogs within milliseconds of making the breach into your home with sound suppressors, called "Hush Puppies" for a reason.
The best you can hope for is to make the proposition very expensive for the intrusion team in terms of lives...

Seems that one would be wise to increase the enemy's breach time by spending extra money to make the primary entrance more breach resistant. I wonder what other counter measures could be taken so that the costs to the intrusion team would be maximized.

Agree with the rest of your post...

Seems that one would be wise to increase the enemy's breach time by spending extra money to make the primary entrance more breach resistant.

Sadly, there are long- preexisting laws which make this illegal, the rationale being that the fire department as well as police have to be able to get into any private residence. It's illegal to put a bank vault door on the front of your house...

I would imagine that this is all a matter of degree, however, which may vary considerably from one community to another.

Depends on where you live. If I lived in the desert south west, I'd put in a huge barrier of cactus around my windows and then separate them from kids and dogs by another less painful hedge or barrier. Here in South Florida we cultivate the Bouganvillea plant for it's stunning array of beautiful flowers. The by product is a set of thorns two inches long and about the diameter of your pinky finger on a mature plant. They don't easily snap and are very hardy plants. Grow like a weed, too.

Back in 1996, I fought with an intruder trying to gain entry into my home in the middle of the night. After I hit him, he was pretty disoriented. The cops told me he apparently staggered across the street and thru another yard before running into a huge "Bougie" bush. They said he musta pushed his way thru an easy EIGHT FEET of mature thorns. Said it looked like a slaughter house with the huge pools of blood. I swear, they put out the BOLO for a "shredded perp!" He was never caught though. The cops examined my bruised and bloodied fists and the area of the hedge and remarked that I'd gotten the best justice possible anyway.

As far as the front door area as the most likely breach point, I'll be building my dream home (in Idaho) with that in mind (if I live long enough) someday and it will include a 360 perimeter wall with an electronic outer and inner gate and NO blind spots. Anybody approaching the front door from ANY angle will find themselves in a KZ that won't be easy to exit. However, until that time, I'm stuck in suburbia in south Florida and my front door will be very vulnerable to most any entry ram chosen.