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"Battlefield conditions" means they need it to run the air conditioning in forward bases in occupied countries. At the moment, this is astonishingly expensive, because it has to be done with fuel trucked in across dangerous supply lines.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/... : every joule of energy spent on aircon in Afghansitan came from fuel trucked a thousand miles across the Khyber pass, getting shot at along the way. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/08/afghanistan-ta...