It really doesn't matter what the military uses as the "standard" sidearm. They're rarely used anyway.
Very true, handguns are defensive weapons. They always told us if it came down to using a sidearm we were in deep $***! Use the sidearm to fight your way back to an offensive weapon.
I also own several other types of pistols other than the 1911 but have a hard time getting past the generally nasty DA triggers, even tuned DA triggers are not great IMO as campaired to a nice SA trigger. The ammount of rounds really doesn't matter to me, if I can't hit them in 8 - 9 shots I'm more than likely screwed anyway and if there are more than 8 - 9 attackers I'm in the same boat. [:@]