  Considered is 4-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric $SU(N_c)$ QCD (SQCD)
with $1\leq N_F\leq N_c-1$ equal mass quark flavors in the fundamental
representation. The gauge invariant order parameter $\rho$ is introduced
distinguishing confinement (with $\rho=0$) and higgs (with $\rho\neq 0$)
phases.
  Using a number of independent arguments for different variants of transition
between the confinement and higgs regimes, it is shown that transitions between
these regimes are not crossovers but the phase transitions. Besides, it is
argued that these phase transitions are of the first order.
  This is opposite to the conclusion of the paper of E. Fradkin and S.H.
Shenker [10] that the transition between the confinement and higgs regimes is
the crossover, not the phase transition. And although the theories considered
in this paper and in [10] are different, an experience shows that there is a
widely spread opinion that the conclusion of [10] is applicable to all QCD-like
theories: both lattice and continuum, both not supersymmetric and
supersymmetric. This opinion is in contradiction with the results of this
paper.
