  Effects of soft breaking in N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories are studied.
For N_f < N_c, we include the dynamics of the non-perturbative superpotential
and use the original (s)quark and gauge fields. For N_f > N_c +1, we formulate
the dynamics in terms of dual (s)quarks and a dual gauge group SU(N_f-N_c). The
mass squared of the squarks can be negative triggering spontaneous breakdown of
flavor and color symmetry. The general condition for stability of the vacuum is
derived. We determine the breaking pattern, determine the spectrum and argue
that the masses vary smoothly as one crosses from the Higgs phase into the
confining phase, thus exhibiting complementarity.
