With all the extra clutter in the sky, if the DoD constellations resembled the Starlink network, we'd have even more astronomers upset at skyclutter. Granted, while an organisation like the DoD would want to keep their sats a secret, most of them are pretty open ones to amateur astronomers and enthusiasts.

I'm not worried about "Star Wars" lasers - most commercial, industrial, and defense applications don't appear on the visual spectrum, and are exceedingly brief; nevermind the physics of how they operate (without an ionising medium, you will not see a laser bloom). What I am concerned about is national assertance and military efforts for LEO supremacy. I've heard it joked that the "Space Force" would be better replaced with a "Cyber Force", but considering the current direction of global communications and electronics, they would appear to serve the same purpose. As humanity slowly transitions to reliance on space-based networks, a space-focused conflict, however brief, would do some serious damage to our infrastructure.