The Roman Strategy in the Middle East

The Romans were able to run wars on two completely separate fronts and emerge victorious from both. The strategy was straightforward, though it took years to see it through to the end. Unlike their neighbors in the lowlands, samnites did not concentrate in large cities. As a result, there was no one place the romans could target to bring a swift conclusion to hostilities. They had to proceed piecemeal, cutting off samnite communities from each other by holding mountain passes and building fortresses along navigable rivers. In this way, the romans slowly hemmed in the samnites and annexed more and more of their territory,. sending in colonists and taking possession of samnium bit