For a short time, he held the post of the Minister of the Army, Navy and Air Force in the Yugoslav government-in-exile, in the cabinet of Ivan Šubašić.
[1] After the end of World War I, on 24 March 1919 Ristić was appointed assistant and deputy chief of staff of the Osijek Divisional District.
On 18 August 1919 he was transferred to the post of chief of staff of Banat troops, and on 20 September of the same year he was stationed at the headquarters of the First Army District.
He was appointed assistant to the Inspector of ground defense 14 September 1934, and a year later, on 14 October 1935, he was moved to the post of commander of the Osijek Divisional District.
Ristić accepted this offer and several months later, on 26 January 1945, he resigned and returned to Yugoslavia together with retired Army General Dušan Simović.