Deliberate?
No, just very stupid. And Biden wasn’t at fault, because he is a potted plant. The US executive is a strange sort of committee. It was likely the usual incoherence and competing agendas of committee leadership. Add in bureaucratic stovepiping and myopia among multiple agencies besides the Pentagon itself, which engaged in egregious micromanagement.
The whole system is sick.
If it’s that bad we are probably in deep S$%T.