In Bangui's Camp Kassaï, six hundred and seventy Central African soldiers graduated under the watchful eye of their nation's president, marking another quiet but consequential chapter in Rwanda's expanding role as a builder of military capacity across the continent. Since late 2023, Rwanda's Defence Force has trained more than seventeen hundred CAR personnel, weaving a partnership that operates through both the formal channels of UN peacekeeping and the more intimate threads of bilateral agreement. It is a story of small nations shaping regional order not through conquest, but through curricul