Still no hostage deal. While Qatar mediates, the Israelis are tearing apart the Hamas tunnel complex HQ beneath al Shifa hospital in Gaza. Stroock's Books believes the Israelis are stringing Hamas along until they are finished with the HQ.
Speaking of Qatar, how do the Israelis get to Doha and kill/capture Hamas leadership? In Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea, the Israelis land a pair of C-130s on a highway in Khartoum and send a special jeep squadron to assassinate the exiled head of Hezbollah.
Reminder, it is not enough for Israel to eliminate Hamas leadership, kill field commanders. They must make a slaughter of the Hamas battalion rank and file. Brutal work for a brutal war.
Israel Radar reports this morning that the Israelis are now preemptively striking Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. Good.
Also from Israel Radar: 'US arms for Israel include 1,800 bunker busting bombs, 2,000 guided missiles for attack helicopters, over 90,000 artillery shells of different types. via @Bloomberg reports.' We asked if that's a new shipment or cumulative since the start of the war.
Linking to Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea above led us to a deep dive of some of the reviews.* Periodically we see a review that begins, 'It's been 8 years! Where is the sequel?' World War 1990 got in the way and gave us our armored warfare fix. The planned third book got overtaken by events, so no war with the Muslim Brotherhood run Egypt. ** And even if we decided, fuck it we're writing it anyway, doing so during the next year would be completely inappropriate. A man's got to have a code, as Omar Little says.
WOTRS didn't sell as well as Israel Strikes. At one point we were moving 75 copies of Israel Strikes a day, this was before KU. Over time WOTRS has just about caught up to Israel Strikes. WOTRS has more KU reads than digital/hard copy purchases. Israel Strikes still outsells WOTRS, which is a good thing. People who read the former will get to the latter. See how the backlist works?
Last year we published three books. This year we're only getting one book out (relax, The Final Storm and Norway are coming out next year). Nevertheless, sales for this year will just about equal sales for last year. We believe The Great Nuclear War of 1975 has attracted a tonne of new readers. This year's top three sellers are the nuke series. The next seven sellers are the World War 1990 books. Exit question, what's a concept similar to the nuke series and the World War 1990 series that can attract new readers?
* This review reads like the trailer to a Chuck Norris movie: 'Here's my take on this book: If you dislike Israel - don't read this book -- If you agree with Middle-Eastern terrorists, don't read this book -- If you don't like the military, don't read this book -- On the other hand: If you care about Israel and it's people -- If you hate terrorists - anywhere --If you like and support the military --If you like pithy - crisp - reparte at the beginning of each chapter "ala Christopher Nuttall" -- Then read this book - read both books in the series, but if you are employed -- Be prepared to explain to your boss why you come into work bleary eyed for a few days :)They are both really hard to put down after you begin to read ................'
**There are people, and they know who they are, who will read that and think, 'OMG. Israeli Merkevas vs Egyptian M1s!'
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