Some poignant projects that were canceled after already been awarded:

"What Sustains and Ends Wars: Will to Fight to Secure Ontological Significance Versus Material Capacity to Pursue Power", with a slide-reading lecture video on "seemingly intractable conflicts" [1].

"Military Adaptation and War Termination" [2]

""Un"Resilience: Drawing Insights from Societal Collapse" [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i_EEHK_u6o

[2] https://minerva.defense.gov/Research/Funded-Projects/Article...

[3] https://minerva.defense.gov/Research/Funded-Projects/Article...