In all the wars and battles of this century, each side has been creating different ways of communicating with their troops out in the field without having the other side get wind of what they were planning. The creation of long-range radios have helped tremendously for Generals to keep in touch with their troops and get status reports on how various situations and operations are panning out. The only problem with radios is that if the enemy is able to tap into that signal, your troops might meet and ambush. In the more recent years, technology has advanced to the point where we are able to secure communications disallowing others from listening in. From 1930 through the 1940's when we were in the middle of the second World War, we did not have the same security on radios that we enjoy today so our government decided to use a code that they had used in previous wars: Indian language. This was a races dialect but it was unique in that no other countries had Indians with languages that were not used in other areas. Of course all tribes have different dialects but the government selected various ones at different times like Choctaw and Comanche, which were originally used or Navajo, which was used heavily in World War II. Using languages not present anywhere else in the world except the United States created a perfect and easy way for the government to create an almost unbreakable code. .
The use of Code Talkers in the major wars of the early to mid 1900's has proven to be very successful. When first researched, the government found that it was easy to recruit Code Talkers within the United States. They also realized that most of the tribes did not have much written history or language, it was all spoken. Because of this fact, their language was very hard to learn or understand. Even words and phrases were hard to pick out. The fact that their language or history was not written but rather was spoken reflects the basic aspect of Indian culture of Storytelling and the idea that the elders hold the history, knowledge, and tales of their tribes.
