What does bugging out have to do with fighting and winning in combat? We're talking about getting away from chaos, not chasing gunfights. Bugging out is a defensive idea. Your presumptions that this is about Rambo fantasies are the exact sort of misconceptions that I worry exists in certain overzealous sects of our surveillance state. Middle eastern terrorism is a diminished threat so now we have all this counter terrorism government infrastructure in place with nobody to target, and I worry that agencies who want to continue to get funding, are going to find new reasons to use it, but against its own people. If there are no real threats, find the next best thing. Your equation of people bugging out with blood lust fantasies underlined my point in ways you probably don't even understand.