Question: What are some of the major goals of terrorism? What are some of the major goals of terrorism? to act on the behalf of the moral character of their group; agents of righteousness in the battle between darkness and "truth;" the cause is the justification for violence to act on behalf of themselves and the ways they have been oppressed or betrayed by the government; spies and agents of the "good guys;" with no central cause, motive, or unifying mission keeping them from success to use insurgency to intimidate or coerce enemies of the nation-state in a pre-war conflict; to act as intermediaries of POW exchanges; obtaining legitimacy through acquisition of land