an amount of (explosives) ... in a certain location, the current difficulties could be swiftly overcome.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

We do not know how many guns, the amount of ammunition and explosives were decommissioned, nor were we told how the decommissioning was carried out,

We do not know how many guns, the amount of ammunition and explosives were decommissioned, nor were we told how the decommissioning was carried out.

There is a certain amount of disconnect here,