Original sentence: " By this logic, if factories and workers producing war materiel are part of the war effort they become legitimate targets for attack, rather than protected noncombatants.Civilian populations had traditionally considered to be separate from combat, however the expanded destructive capabilites of modern warfare brought with it an increased direct threat to civilian populations.Hence in practice, both sides in a conflict often commit atrocities against civilians, with the understanding that these are legitimate and lawful targets in war.Home front is the informal term commonly used to describe the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system of a particular side in a war.In a modern industrial nation, the fighting "teeth" of combat soldiers, depends on the "tail" of civilian support services, which extend all the way to the factories that build the material.In the political jargon of militarist-nationalists, it implies the imperative or effective militarization of a society, and its servitude to the needs of a military command during a time of war.The view that a society in wartime must function as a component of its executive branch, "teeth and tail" view.This continuity of "military effort" from fighting soldier to manufacturing facility has profound effects for the concept  of "total war.This military view of civilian targets has profound effects on the equity of applied legal principles on which the prosecution of crimes against humanity are based.With the rapid increase of warfare technology, the term "military effort" has changed to include the "home front" as a reflection of both a civilian "sector" capacity to produce arms, as well as the structural or policy changes which deal with its vulnerability to direct attack
Edited sentence: Home front is the term commonly used to describe the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system of the fighting effort.However, in a modern industrial nation's armed forced the "tail" of support services which enable the "teeth" of combat soldiers to fight must necessarily be understood to extend all the way to the factories that build the materiel.If the factories and workers producing war materiel are part of the war effort, they thus become legitimate targets for attack, rather than protected noncombatants.This continuity of military effort from fighting soldier to manufacturing facility has profound effects for theories and practice of total war.Traditionally, civilian populations were considered to be separate from the war-fighting activities of a nation, and as such to be protected from attack