  Supersymmetry-breaking is a key ingredient for string theory models to be
phenomenologically viable. We review the strong analogy in the physics and the
methods used for describing non-supersymmetric flux vacua and
non-supersymmetric black holes in string theory. We also show how the polarized
state could be the key to describing a well-behaved back-reaction of
anti-branes in flux backgrounds, shedding a new light on a recent debate in the
literature.
