Over many centuries and across many territories the Romans were able to win an astonishing number of military victories and their success was due to several important factors. Italy was a peninsula not easily attacked. a huge pool of fighting men to draw upon, a disciplined and innovative army, a centralized command and line of supply, expert engineers, effective diplomacy a network of allies, and an inclusive approach to conquered people, allowed for strengthening and broadening of the Roman power and logistical bases. , her allies not only supplied, equipped and paid for additional men but they also supplied vital materials such as grain and ships. this, Rome was more or less in a continuous state of war or readiness for it and believed absolutely in the necessity of defending and imposing on others what she firmly believed was her cultural superiority.