Central role played by certain non-Abelian monopoles (of Goddard--Nuyts--Olive--Weinberg type) in the infrared dynamics in many confining vacua of softly broken N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories, has recently been clarified. We discuss here the main lessons to be learned from these studies for the confinement mechanism in QCD.

PACS numbers: 12.38.Aw