This seems like an irrelevant tangent. Powerful men can hold other powerful men to account, that is still holding powerful men to account.
(In fact, one change desired by is for powerful men to stop reflexively responding to allegations like these by protecting each other and being more skeptical of unsubstantiated pleas of innocence, given the statistics that we know on the nature of sexual assault allegations).
That design probably has more with phone network penetration rather than corporate firewalls. The most likely use case for on prem Google would be far away sites with no connectivity except a phone line
Is there some legal or moral significance of underlining that the occupation is _temporary_ ? Is _permanent_ occupation somewhat more justified or what?
Military matters often have additional considerations to the legal and moral ones that preoccupy your mind. Hence there is, obviously, much significance.