  This paper provides an overview of the current state of the stripping model
for short gamma-ray bursts. After the historical joint detection of the
gravitational wave event GW170817 and the accompanying gamma-ray burst
GRB170817A, the relation between short gamma-ray bursts and neutron star
mergers has been reliably confirmed. We show that many properties of
GRB170817A, which turned out to be peculiar in comparison with other short
gamma-ray bursts, are naturally explained in the context of the stripping
model, specifically, the time (1.7 s) between the peak of the gravitational
wave signal and the detection of the gamma-ray burst, its total isotropic
energy, and the parameters of the red and blue components of the accompanying
kilonova.
