Editing 1982 Lebanon War (section)

===Cold War perspective===
According to Abraham Rabinovich, the complete dominance of U.S. and Israeli technology and tactics over those of the [[Eastern Bloc]] was a factor that hastened the demise of the [[Warsaw Pact]] and the Soviet Union.<ref name="Rabinovich p. 510-11"/><ref name="The Bekaa Valley War"/>{{dubious|date=December 2012}} However, this was not the first confrontation in which Soviet weaponry had been outmatched by American weaponry. In many of the Cold War conflicts{{which|date=April 2014}} the Americans and their allies had superior technology. Nonetheless, the gap between the [[First World]] and [[Second World]] weaponry was more apparent in the 1980s and weighed more heavily on Second World leaders.