Leading news agencies have been allowed a peek into the US Central Command (CENTCOM) in Florida where the orders for overseas attacks receive final approval, Press TV reported.
On Tuesday, the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida received journalists from mainstream news outlets, AFP reported.
The military center supervises the Iraq and Afghanistan operations and oversees the Middle East, Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Aden and Central Asia.
"From this room..., we issue orders, we can assist with targeting," said the Joint Operations Center (JOC) our guide Todd Schappler.
Intelligence collected by US spy aircraft from potential flashpoints is forwarded to CENTCOM before being presented to General David Petraeus, the chief of Central Command.
Schappler said the distances involved between the center and the command posts on the ground accounted for delays in attacks, as targets are not stationary.
Washington has been using the delays to explain civilian casusalties during aerial and ground rampages into dense human concentrations.
The official, though, said CENTCOM tried avoid 'collateral damage' and to "keep it absolutely as small as possible."
In late May, Petraeus commented on the recent calamitous US raids on suspected militant targets on Afghanistan's common border with Pakistan that has killed scores of civilians saying "well, first of all, it is a problem," but "we shouldn't have our soldiers go into a fight with one arm tied behind their back."
The troops have been accused of straying far from the battlefield long after alleged insurgents had retreated and entering residential areas.
Schappler claimed if the risk of civilian deaths was too high the operation would be canceled.