Yes Eric, this pretty much is guaranteed to be a real mess as you stated. What hasn't the US government gotten into or been in control of that hasn't been?
The thing about a war in space is that they can tell us they are fighting battles out there and how the hell would anyone be able to know? It isn't like we will be able to see those battles, even with the most powerful telescopes that normal people would have access to.
They have just found a way to siphon off more money from the people without ever having to show anything for it.
If the US would really like to spread some freedom they could start right here in Texas and let us go back to being a free nation, under one God, as we like to say here in the Republic of Texas.