Codetalkers after WWII

reading that article in 'Chat' about the last surviving WWII Comanche codetalker passing on, and after watching WINDTALKERS again last Sun night- WI the codetalking program had been retained by the USMC, and poss by the Army too, after WWII ? How much utility would the Navaho and other codetalkers have been in the atomic age, and would they still have been denied recognition for their key role ?
 
I think that with spread-spectrum communications, there would not be a need for codetalking today. But in the early cold-war period I could see a use for Native American language in military communications.

I wonder if the Native American languages used the standard international Morse Code set for the Latin alphabet, or a modified code set. Japanese, Arabic, and Chinese all have their own character set. A separate morse code for Native American languages wouldn't provide much security in itself, but maybe a ciphered communications system would provide a degree of security.
 
Codtalkers would have been very useful in Korea, Vietnam, and up until the Gulf War in '91, as there was still a lot of voice traffic on radios. Incidentally, the Indian Code Talkers weren't the only ones: the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy, France, and Germany often sent voice radio from Regiment down to Battalion and Company level in Japanese, much to the consternation of the Germans, who sometimes thought there was a Japanese unit fighting alongside them in a particular area. Even material that should've been sent in code was sent in the clear, as long as there was a Japanese-speaker at each end.
 
I think the idea would outlive it's usefulness. The Soviets would find out the use of them and learn the language somehow.

But speaking of which, the Soviet Union had a lot of minorities, could they do something similar?
 
I think the idea would outlive it's usefulness. The Soviets would find out the use of them and learn the language somehow.

But speaking of which, the Soviet Union had a lot of minorities, could they do something similar?
Certainly. Plenty of the tribes living in Siberia could have their language co-opted for the sake of codetalking.

In fact, they don't even need to do that much. If they chose instead to, for example, create a whole new language a la Esperanto, they wouldn't have to co-opt another language.
 
Certainly. Plenty of the tribes living in Siberia could have their language co-opted for the sake of codetalking.

In fact, they don't even need to do that much. If they chose instead to, for example, create a whole new language a la Esperanto, they wouldn't have to co-opt another language.

Elvish? Klingon? How long could one of those languages be used before the other side figured it out?
 
I think the idea would outlive it's usefulness. The Soviets would find out the use of them and learn the language somehow.

But speaking of which, the Soviet Union had a lot of minorities, could they do something similar?
Eh...Georgian, Ukranian, and Central Assian languages could be decoded easily, methinks.
 
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