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Militarily, he participated in the suppression of the tribal disturbances in the Middle Euphrates region in 1935, during the Anglo-Iraqi War in May 1941 and in the Kurdistan War in 1945.

Qassim also served during the Iraqi military involvement in the Arab-Israeli War from May 1948 to June 1949.

Toward the latter part of the mission, he commanded a battalion of the First Brigade, which was situated in the Kafr Qasem area south of Qilqilya.

In 1956-57, he served with his brigade at Mafraq in Jordan in the wake of the Suez Crisis.

By 1957 Qasim had assumed leadership of several opposition groups that had formed in the army.