Osama bin Laden: will the $25m bounty be paid? - Telegraph

Osama bin Laden: will the $25m bounty be paid? - Telegraph

Clearly, for the government, $25 million is irrelevant. The question is how paying or not paying it to the armed forces members who killed him will affect incentives and future behavior. The entire bounty should not be paid exclusively to the individual who fired the lethal shot, because if it was teamwork among the unit would be undermined as each tried to get the winning shot in. But is the "team" is rewarded, who is a member of the team? Just the guys on the ground, air support, logistics...I have no idea how many people are involved in an operation such as this or how one draws the line. My guess it that the bounty will not be paid, because the soldiers were doing a job for which they are paid. Bounties are typically used to motivate freelancers. The government then allows the freelances to determine the split.