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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 fundamentalrepresentation. The gauge invariant order parameter $\rho$ is introduceddistinguishing confinement (with $\rho=0$) and higgs (with $\rho\neq 0$)phases.  Using a number of independent arguments for different variants of transitionbetween the confinement and higgs regimes, it is shown that transitions betweenthese regimes are not crossovers but the phase transitions. Besides, it isargued 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 isthe crossover, not the phase transition. And although the theories consideredin this paper and in [10] are different, an experience shows that there is awidely spread opinion that the conclusion of [10] is applicable to all QCD-liketheories: both lattice and continuum, both not supersymmetric andsupersymmetric. This opinion is in contradiction with the results of thispaper.

Phase transitions between confinement and higgs phases in ${\cal N}=1\,\, SU(N_c)$ SQCD with $1\leq N_F\leq N_c-1$ quark flavors