In what is becoming a recurring theme, U.S. Central Command on Wednesday morning announced a B-52 presence flight in the Persian Gulf. It’s another unnecessary and wasteful deployment.

According to the Wall Street Journal, this B-52 mission is the sixth since last fall, when concerns began bubbling up in the Trump administration about Iran possibly using the anniversary of Iranian Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s death to target U.S. forces and assets. Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike as his car exited Baghdad airport in Iraq.