House Appropriations defense subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (R-CA), possibly setting the stage for politically explosive spending debates in the coming year, said today he favors strategic reviews that could lead to funding cuts for aircraft carriers and Abrams tanks, asserting they are not suitable for modern warfare against a peer adversary like China. “We ought to look at aircraft carriers,” he said at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. “My friends that are submarine captains on Virginia-class submarines will say...