A chapter of the PhD thesis 'IHL and the Production of Space: A Study of Spatiality within International Humanitarian Law' entitled 'The Geographical Scope of IHL's Application and the Spectrum of Global Warfare' is hereby introduced. This chapter, building on the multifaceted relationship between space and law, analyses a shift in the geographical applicability of IHL of NIACs towards an unlimited spatial application. It situates this change in a wider social context and attempts to explain it.