  Deep insights into the possible infrared dynamics of strongly-coupled
nonAbelian gauge theories such as QCD come from the analyses of ${\cal N}=1$ or
${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories. Central in the whole discussion
will be the topological soliton monopoles and vortices and their quantum
dynamics. We review the arguments that nonAbelian monopoles, free from the
classic "difficulties", can be defined semi-classically via the topology and
stability connection to the better understood nonAbelian vortices. Recent
results on $CP^{N-1}$ models on $2D$ worldsheet of finite width, establish the
quantum mechanical nature of such nonAbelian monopoles. An interesting class of
RG flows and emergence of confining vacua "nearby" strongly-coupled
infrared-fixed point (IRFP) conformal theories are discussed in the context of
most singular vacua in ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric QCD. Certain analogy with
the real-world QCD is drawn. In many systems, color-flavor locking emerges as a
crucial mechanism for the gauge system to avoid dynamical Abelianization.

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