On national security in president Barack Obama’s inaugural speech

In the present article, autors examine president Barack Obama's inaugural speech, with the purpose of throwing light on his ideas regarding national security, considering that the speech is a strategic communications tool and duly bearing in mind the problem of communications and its differences vis à vis information. The chosen approach is content analysis word by word, in two steps: quantitative and qualitative. Results are offered considering the present context of national security in the United States.