Mr C Hinecap
It is obvious from your Posts - and seemingly confirmed by the age quoted for you under your user name - that you have no experience of operating away from Base in an environment where there is no instant advice or assistance available from "Higher Authority".
For people such as BEagle and myself that was a fact of life in the '60s and early '70s. There was no instant communication with "Higher Authority" when operating in a Foreign Land because there was no Communication Satellite System - Radio Communication was dependant on the time of day and the height of the ionosphere! Aircraft Captains had to make decisions - there was no-one else to do so for them.
One example for you - in 1969 I was the Co-Pilot on an Andover which landed at Timehri in Guyana. We were met by the Acting High Commisioner who asked if we could do an Aeromedical Evacuation of a young VSO volunteer who had been riding his moped along a jungle track when he met a 3 ton lorry coming the other way. Neither the High Commision nor ourselves were able to establish contact with UK or our Detatchment HQ - so we flew that sortie without any authorisation. There were no recriminations because that was exactly the sort of decision Junior Officers were expected to be able to make as a matter of routine.
One of the prime objectives in any future conflict will be to knock out the Opposition's Command and Control systems. We should expect Junior Personnel to be able -and willing -to shoulder the burden of responsibilty if so required.